· Private foundation
Tom & Helen Tonkin Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WYOMING INDEPENDENT LIVING | $39,900 |
| UNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE | $18,000 |
| OXBOW CENTER | $15,000 |
| SUE JORGENSEN LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JOURNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| YMCA OF NATRONA COUNTY | $10,000 |
| NATRONA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JASONS FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| KELLY WALSH LAST BLAST | $4,000 |
| MOUNTAIN ROAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $438k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Tom & Helen Tonkin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WIWyoming Independent Living Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $760k · revenue +101%
- CFCasper Family YMCA INC3× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +86%
- JFJASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- 3D307 DANCE ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +67%
- JSJoshuas Storehouse and Distribution Centerone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -69%
- NANICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +28%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To support the Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming through a Building Fund, Endowment Fund, and Educational Fund
Crisis mission: to provide temporary care and shelter for abused, abandoned or neglected children long term mission: to provide a residency program for children without a stable home.
None
Provide programs and services to promote and enchance the development of boys and girls
The strengthen Wyoming communities by fostering a spirit of service and volunteerism among citizens of all ages and carry out a national service program as authorized by the National and Community Service Act of 1990.
To enrich the cultural lives of adults, expand the musical horizons of children and provide an outlet for the creative talents of musicians living in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain region by performing classical and popular music to an…
Boys and girls club of park county, wyoming, inc. is a non-profit organization incorporated in the state of wyoming to administer programs that benefit children in the park county area. to inspire and enable all young people, especially…
The Wyoming Nonprofit Network represents the collective voice of the Wyoming charitable nonprofit sector and brings best practices, resources, and support to the nonprofit community.
To promote the sport of hockey in the douglas, wyoming area.
Inspire, educate and entertain citizens of all ages by giving the performing arts a place to be seen, heard and felt.
WYCRP is committed to supporting the safety, permanence, and well-being of children through systematic reviews, education, prevention, and early intervention efforts. As a federally mandated entity, the Citizen Review Panel evaluates the…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Wyoming Independent Living Inc ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Casper Family YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds JASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCIENCE ZONE ↗
- Who funds THE SHACK ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming ↗
- Who funds UNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds 307 DANCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Our Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds Joshuas Storehouse and Distribution Center ↗
- Who funds NICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CASPER CHILDREN'S CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Wyoming Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA of Natrona County ↗
- Who funds Natrona County Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Douglas ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · The McMurry Foundation · Natrona Collective Health Trust · Zimmerman Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Double 4 Foundation · Wold Foundation · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Gertrude Kamps Memorial Foundation · The Joseph J Scott Foundation · Tw Foundation · Tate Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tom & Helen Tonkin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tom & Helen Tonkin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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