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Western States Learning Corporation
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of WESTERN STATES LEARNING CORPORATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $288k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUBLETTE COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT | $910,260 |
| COMEA INC | $402,449 |
| CHEYENNE HEALTH AND WELLNESS | $273,055 |
| BIGHORN VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC | $244,132 |
| COMMUNITY SAFETY NETWORK | $243,061 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES NETWORK OF WY | $144,548 |
| TRUE NORTH ACADEMY | $99,856 |
| ACTION RESOURCES INTERNATIONAL | $93,509 |
| WYOMING RESORTS LLC DBA BEST | $77,730 |
| CHEYENNE ANIMAL SHELTER SERVICES | $71,064 |
| DOWNTOWN CLINIC | $61,242 |
| THE HUB ON SMITH | $55,000 |
| GOSHEN HELP DBA WYO HELP | $44,058 |
| BANNER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $37,111 |
| RIVERTON SENIOR CENTER | $35,531 |
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 (FY23–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% 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.
29 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- BVBIGHORN VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC2× · 2024–2025 · $590k · revenue +72%
- YEYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $105k · revenue +14%
- DCDOWNTOWN CLINIC3× · 2023–2025 · $98k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN MANOR INCone grant, 2024 · $406k · revenue -35% · 42% of their budget
- ELEP-MPAL LLC DBA MOUNTAIN PLAZAone grant, 2024 · $184k
- SSSAFEHOUSE SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $139k · revenue 0%
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 serve victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and other crimes committted in big horn county, wyoming
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
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 companion the end of life journey with skill and compassion.
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.
To provide mental health and counseling services in wyoming through stewardship, innovation and compassion
To provide professional counseling services related primarily to mental health and substance abuse to the residents of Carbon County, Wyoming.
Dedicated to serving the health, wellness, recreational, and social needs of cheyenne county and surrounding area
Child abuse awareness and prevention
Operates a domestic violence shelter and a rape crisis counseling and assistance team
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Health Center of Central Wyoming Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Services Network of 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 41 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% 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 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 48 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 BIGHORN VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMEA INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SAFETY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds One22 Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds EPPSON CENTER FOR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds CHEYENNE ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES NETWORK OF WYOMING ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMPASS CENTER FOR FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Action Resources International ↗
- Who funds GOSHEN HELP ↗
- Who funds CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WYOMING 2-1-1 INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST STOP HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN OF HOT SPRINGS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Riverton Senior Citizens Center ↗
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 · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Wyoming Governor's Residence Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · United Way of Laramie County · Natrona Collective Health Trust · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Direct Relief · Network for Good
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 Western States Learning Corporation 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.
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