· Private foundation
Truecos Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $273k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEADERSHIP WYOMING | $250,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NATRONA COUNTY | $173,375 |
| MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION | $19,500 |
| CASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| COWBOY JOE CLUB INC | $10,000 |
| WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION | $6,200 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $4,000 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| MIDLAND UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA | $3,000 |
| GILLETTE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC | $3,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Truecos Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LWLEADERSHIP WYOMING2× · 2021–2025 · $260k · revenue +192%
- CCCASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $154k · revenue +74%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyomingone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- TMTHE MONTROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -100%
- SCSHERIDAN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
The mission of the montana tech foundation is to advance the teaching, research and public service endeavors of montana tech by generating private contributions to supplement the institution's state and federal revenues for capital,…
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The university of montana foundation inspires philanthropic support to enhance excellence and opportunity at the university of montana.
Wyofile is an independent, nonprofit news service focused on the people, places and policy of wyoming. recognizing the rapid decline in resources among traditional news outlets, wyofile offers in-depth coverage of complicated subjects and…
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NATRONA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP WYOMING ↗
- Who funds CASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COWBOY JOE CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds GILLETTE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MONTROSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Media Institute ↗
- Who funds WYOMING STATE 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds University of Mary ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Verdad Foundation · The McMurry Foundation · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Daniels Fund · Double 4 Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · American Gift Fund · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Truecos Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Truecos Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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