· Public charity
United Way of Laramie County
Vision: UNITED WAY OF LARAMIE COUNTY envisions a community where all individuals and families have the opportunity to achieve their full potential.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $341k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTHWORKS | $101,132 |
| COMEA INC | $41,189 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CHEYENNE | $40,000 |
| NEEDS INC | $39,468 |
| FOSTER GRANDPARENTS | $38,000 |
| SPECIAL FRIENDS OF CHEYENNE | $32,000 |
| UNACCOMPANIED STUDENT INITIATIVES | $24,016 |
| WYOMING 2-1-1 INITIATIVE | $20,020 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHEYENNE | $18,928 |
| CASA OF LARAMIE COUNTY | $15,403 |
| SAFEHOUSE | $15,041 |
| CLIMB WYOMING | $15,015 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WYOMING | $15,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL FOR KIDS | $14,294 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $12,713 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against -83% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CHCHEYENNE HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $774k · revenue +60%
- CICOMEA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $482k · revenue +361%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING INC8× · 2017–2024 · $409k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- LCLARAMIE COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -83%
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.
Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.
To serve victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes committted in big horn county, wyoming
To empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.
To lead the community in the improvement of the local business environment, creation of jobs and growth of the local tax base in laramie, wyoming.
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.
The group home and shelter is for the long and short term care, guidance and education of troubled youth age 10 to 17 in southwest wyoming. we arrange for them to be in counseling but do not provide this service.
To help the people of albany county achieve satisfactory fulfillment and to increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another.
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…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Laramie County and the most unlike its peers is Peak Wellness Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 27 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 CHEYENNE HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMEA INC ↗
- Who funds NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds PEAK WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHEYENNE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LARAMIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ASK After School for Kids ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LARAMIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING 2-1-1 INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF CHEYENNE ↗
- Who funds Recover Wyoming ↗
- Who funds UNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LARAMIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BETHEL OUTREACH MINISTRIES BETHEL ↗
- Who funds GREATER WYOMING BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR A CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREENPATH INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF WYOMING INC ↗
- Who funds LARAMIE COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Funding the Future ↗
- Who funds WYOMING SENIOR CITIZENS INC ↗
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: Wyoming Community Foundation · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Cheyenne Kiwanis Club Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Taco Johns Foundation · Joannides Family Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Thankful Thursday · Maury and Bonnie Brown Foundation · Gatchell Family Foundation · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Mary H Storer 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 United Way of Laramie County 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.
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.