· Private foundation
Vernon & Rowena Griffith 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 $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $377k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHERIDAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $250,000 |
| SHERIDAN COUNTY SENIOR CENTER | $175,000 |
| SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $75,000 |
| SHERIDAN COLLEGE | $71,580 |
| WYO THEATER INC | $55,000 |
| ST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS | $12,000 |
| YOUTH INC | $10,000 |
| SHERIDAN COUNTY SOCCER ASSOC | $5,000 |
| THE FOOD GROUP | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YIYOUTH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +44%
- SCSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST3× · 2022–2025 · $85k · revenue +9%
- TFTHE FOOD GROUP INC4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- SFSHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGEone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- SYSHERIDAN YOUTH BASEBALLone grant, 2024 · $5k
- UUPRISINGone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
Christian ministry reaching youth for christ in sheridan, wyoming and the surrounding areas.
To provide students a learning environment where they can develop independence, cultivate passions, and grow the skill sets needed to be successful and fulfilled in life
To support the sheridan community through charitable giving and to strengthen it with philanthropic education.
Provide activities for low income children
The county rodeo organizes and operates the Wyo Rodeo that is nationally known. We pay out all of the monies to the contestants.
To offer special services for children birth through 5 years of age. the team of special educators, speech/language pathologists, and an occupational and physical therapists assess conceptual, reasoning, socialization, fine and gross…
To plan, construct, and improve multi purpose athletic/activity facilities for the residents of sheridan county, wyoming. also, provide funds to support children focused non-profit organizations.
Promote the emotional and physical healing of child abuse victims
To serve victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes committted in big horn county, wyoming
None
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 28 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 SHERIDAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WYO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN FOSTER PARENT EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds ANTELOPE BUTTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NOAH'S ARK CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UPRISING ↗
- Who funds COMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds ADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COUNTY SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · The Roberts Family Foundation · George Foundation · Chandler H Kibbee and Mercedes K Kibbee Foundation for Children · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Homer A Jr & Janet Scott Family Foundation · The Shaw & Betty Walker Foundation · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation · Dan & Jeanne Scott Family Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vernon & Rowena Griffith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vernon & Rowena Griffith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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