· Public charity
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.
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.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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, $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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
- MSMOTHER SETON HOUSING INC8× · 2017–2024 · $325k · revenue +161%
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming8× · 2017–2024 · $289k · revenue +74%
- YCYOUTH CRISIS CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIPHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS4× · 2017–2021 · $24k
- SMST MARK'S EPISCOPALHEART TO HANDSone grant, 2020 · $9k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMPBELL COgraduatedone 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.
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.
To provide professional counseling services related primarily to mental health and substance abuse to the residents of Carbon County, Wyoming.
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…
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.
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…
To empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.
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.
None
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…
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.
To serve victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes committted in big horn county, wyoming
Seek to improve the quality of life for people in need by building partnerships and providing life and financial management services in wyoming communities.
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.
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 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
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.