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United Way of Natrona County

The UNITED WAY OF NATRONA COUNTY obtains contributions that are distributed to charitable organizations throughout natrona, converse and campbell counties in the state of wyoming.

$590k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$985kHuman Services$859kHousing & Shelter$831kYouth Development$452kFood & Nutrition$387kCrime & Legal$346kEducation$254kRecreation & Sports$116kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 36 grants below total $573,485 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $590,176 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $16,691 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $482k
$15,154
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH CRISIS CENTER$41,400
MERCER HOUSE$30,511
SETON HOUSE$28,913
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY PROJECT$27,260
CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY$25,329
SELF-HELP CENTER$24,180
WYOMING CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT - CASPER HEAD START$21,573
NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS$20,095
IRIS CLUBHOUSE INC$19,200
INTERFAITH OF NATRONA COUNTY$19,200
THE SALVATION ARMY$19,200
CENTRAL WYOMING COUNSELING CENTER$19,200
CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES$19,200
UNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE$18,823
WYOMING FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE$17,850
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $877k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WYOMING 2-1-1: $13k → 10%WYOMING 2-1-1: $12k → 10%CONVERSE COUNTY AGING SERVICES - DOUGLAS WY: $800 → 12%WYOMING 2-1-1: $10k → 10%WYOMING 2-1-1: $8k → 10%WYOMING FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE: $18k → 11%CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $15k → 11%CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $15k → 11%CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $15k → 11%NOWCAP SERVICES: $14k → 11%CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $11k → 11%CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $10k → 11%WYOMING DEMENTIA CARE: $10k → 11%CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $10k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CASPER: $55k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CASPER: $52k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CASPER: $52k → 11%INTERFAITH: $49k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $33k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $30k → 11%INTERFAITH: $29k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $27k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CASPER: $25k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $25k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $25k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $25k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $24k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $23k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $23k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CASPER: $22k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $22k → 11%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $20k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $19k → 11%INTERFAITH OF NATRONA COUNTY: $19k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CASPER: $18k → 11%INTERFAITH: $16k → 11%INTERFAITH: $16k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $13k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $13k → 11%CASPER FAMILY CONNECTION: $10k → 11%BRAIN INJURY ADVOCATES OF WYOMING: $10k → 11%CLIMB WYOMING: $10k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $9k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 35 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
5

Total granted

$4.2M
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+64%

Still filing today

94%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationFood & NutritionOther

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

  • MS
    MOTHER SETON HOUSING INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $325k · revenue +161%
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming
    8× · 2017–2024 · $289k · revenue +74%
  • YC
    YOUTH CRISIS CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIPHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS
    4× · 2017–2021 · $24k
  • SM
    ST MARK'S EPISCOPALHEART TO HANDS
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMPBELL COgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +64%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Carbon County Counseling Center

To provide professional counseling services related primarily to mental health and substance abuse to the residents of Carbon County, Wyoming.

2
Wrap Around Wyoming Inc

Focus on individual and family identified priorities and strengths and success. collaborate by including community partner supports and resources families choose themselves so people can thrive. support people where they are. empower them…

3
Serve Wyoming Inc

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.

Philanthropy
4
Wyoming Dementia Care

Help families and caregivers of those with Alzheimers and Dementia related illnesses care for their loved ones. Direct services provide: support, encouragement, access to community resources & techniques to help meet challenges of caring…

Housing & Shelter
5
Yellowstone County Assistance Network

To empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.

Human Services
6
Youth Alternative Home Association

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.

Human Services
7
Wyoming Cares Inc

None

Human Services
8
Recover Wyoming

The mission of recover wyoming is to advocate for persons in recovery and mobilize resources to aid them, their families and allies, to increase the occurence and quality of long-term recovery from addiction. through recovery promotion and…

Health
9
Wyoming Independent Living Inc

To provide for continually increasing opportunities for individuals with disabilities to live as independently as possible. To do so for all within the State of Wyoming through judicious and aggressive management of resources.

Human Services
10
Cares Inc

To serve victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes committted in big horn county, wyoming

Human Services
11
Wyoming Guardianship Corporation

Seek to improve the quality of life for people in need by building partnerships and providing life and financial management services in wyoming communities.

Crime & Legal
12
Cheyenne Center Inc

The mission of Cheyenne Center, Inc. is offer the highest quality of professional and affordable substance abuse treatment with the highest regard and respect given to the clients growth and individuality.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Converse County Aging Services. 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 41 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%0%<5yr11%14%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr13%22%20–35yr17%27%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr11%3%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr13%12%20–35yr17%45%35–55yr13%25%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/49
the rest of the field
14%
76/556

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.

04the grantee network

45 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 47 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
29/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Self Help Center Inc — $215,380 · OtherSelf Help Center IncTHE SALVATION ARMY — $185,670 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCasper Family YMCA INC — $120,384 · OtherCasper Family YMCA INCReach 4A Star Riding Academy Inc — $118,050 · OtherReach 4A Star Riding Academy IncChild Development Center of Natrona County — $114,200 · OtherChild Development Center of Natr…Arc of Natrona County — $109,440 · OtherArc of Natrona CountyGreater Wyoming Council of the BSA — $105,040 · OtherGreater Wyoming Council of the B…COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SERVICES — $67,200 · OtherCOUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SERVICES+10 more — $196,157 · Other+10 moreNATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $244,919 · Human ServicesNATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON …CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES INC — $204,748 · Human ServicesCENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR S…CASA of Natrona County — $179,729 · Human ServicesCASA of Natrona CountyInterfaith of Natrona County Inc — $129,750 · Human ServicesInterfaith of Natrona Co…CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS — $85,250 · Human ServicesCASPER FAMILY CONNECTION…WYOMING 2-1-1 INC — $43,400 · Human Services+5 more — $59,450 · Human Services+5 moreMOTHER SETON HOUSING INC — $325,063 · Housing & ShelterMOTHER SETON HOUSING INCYOUTH CRISIS CENTER — $249,594 · Housing & ShelterYOUTH CRISIS CENTERI-Reach 2 Inc — $125,200 · Housing & ShelterI-Reach 2 IncWyoming Rescue Mission — $116,562 · Housing & ShelterWyoming Rescue MissionWYOMING HOUSING NETWORK INC — $44,640 · Housing & ShelterUNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE — $33,423 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $29,600 · Housing & ShelterMERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $237,503 · HealthMERCER FAMIL…Childrens Advocacy Project — $165,960 · HealthChildrens Ad…Iris House Inc — $28,900 · HealthIris House I…CENTRAL WYOMING COUNSELING CENTER — $19,200 · Health+2 more — $21,257 · HealthBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming — $288,824 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Gi…GIRL SCOUTS OF MONTANA AND WYOMING — $51,203 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOU…+1 more — $6,600 · Youth DevelopmentWYOMING CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC — $240,926 · EducationFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $140,886 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,231,521Human Services$947,246Housing & Shelter$924,082Health$472,820Youth Development$346,627Education$240,926Food & Nutrition$140,886

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMOTHER SETON HOUSING INC — $325,063 over 8y, 25% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming — $288,824 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetYOUTH CRISIS CENTER — $249,594 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetNATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $244,919 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetWYOMING CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC — $240,926 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $237,503 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetSelf Help Center Inc — $215,380 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES INC — $204,748 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetCASA of Natrona County — $179,729 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Project — $165,960 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $140,886 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith of Natrona County Inc — $129,750 over 8y, 30% of budgetI-Reach 2 Inc — $125,200 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCasper Family YMCA INC — $120,384 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetReach 4A Star Riding Academy Inc — $118,050 over 7y, 23% of budgetWyoming Rescue Mission — $116,562 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetChild Development Center of Natrona County — $114,200 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetArc of Natrona County — $109,440 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetGreater Wyoming Council of the BSA — $105,040 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetCASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS — $85,250 over 8y, 11% of budgetCOUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SERVICES — $67,200 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MONTANA AND WYOMING — $51,203 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWYOMING HOUSING NETWORK INC — $44,640 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetWYOMING 2-1-1 INC — $43,400 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS — $37,870 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE — $33,423 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMIMIS HOUSE — $32,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetCASPER HOUSING AUTHORITY CARES — $29,600 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetIris House Inc — $28,900 over 3y, 11% of budgetHOPE HOUSE — $28,700 over 4y, 13% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING COUNSELING CENTER — $19,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASPER PRIDE — $19,157 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetWYOMING FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE INC — $17,850 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $16,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation of St Marks Episcopal Church Casper Wyoming Inc — $16,480 over 3y, 35% of budgetNORTHWEST COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS OF WYOMING — $14,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $13,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budget12-24 CLUB INC — $11,657 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF WYOMING — $9,600 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCAMP HOPE INC — $9,600 over 1y, 10% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN ROCKIES — $9,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMPBELL CO — $6,600 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT KENNY — $6,400 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCONVERSE COUNTY AGING SERVICES — $800 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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 MOTHER SETON HOUSING INC
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming
  • Who funds YOUTH CRISIS CENTER
  • Who funds NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC
  • Who funds WYOMING CHILD & FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC
  • Who funds MERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds Self Help Center Inc
  • Who funds CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES INC
  • Who funds CASA of Natrona County
  • Who funds Childrens Advocacy Project
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
  • Who funds Interfaith of Natrona County Inc
  • Who funds I-Reach 2 Inc
  • Who funds Casper Family YMCA INC
  • Who funds Reach 4A Star Riding Academy Inc
  • Who funds Wyoming Rescue Mission
  • Who funds Child Development Center of Natrona County
  • Who funds Arc of Natrona County
  • Who funds Greater Wyoming Council of the BSA
  • Who funds CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS
  • Who funds COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SERVICES
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MONTANA AND WYOMING
  • Who funds WYOMING HOUSING NETWORK INC
  • Who funds WYOMING 2-1-1 INC
  • Who funds CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS
  • Who funds UNACCOMPANIED STUDENTS INITIATIVE
  • Who funds MIMIS HOUSE
  • Who funds CASPER HOUSING AUTHORITY CARES
  • Who funds Iris House Inc
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE
  • Who funds CENTRAL WYOMING COUNSELING CENTER
  • Who funds CASPER PRIDE
  • Who funds WYOMING FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE INC
  • Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING
  • Who funds Foundation of St Marks Episcopal Church Casper Wyoming Inc
  • Who funds NORTHWEST COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS OF WYOMING
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC
  • Who funds 12-24 CLUB 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.

Natrona Collective Health TrustWY76.7× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natrona Collective Health Trust · Wyoming Community Foundation · The McMurry Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Double 4 Foundation · Zimmerman Family Foundation · Wold Foundation · The Goodstein Foundation · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Blue Envelope Health Fund · Skelton Myra F Foundation · Central Wyoming Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute

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 Natrona 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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