· Private foundation
Wold Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k79 grants · $267k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $635k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $661k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION | $445,000 |
| WYO COMPLEX DBA WYO SPORTS RANCH | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION | $225,000 |
| CASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $175,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| COLORADO COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $61,000 |
| THE TAFT SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS | $25,000 |
| WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF WYOMING | $24,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Wold Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 33% of the giving stays in WY; read by stated purpose it is 30% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +19% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
100 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 30 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k 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
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +79%- CHChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +26%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $666k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- CWCENTRAL WYOMING COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $50k
- UCUNION COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CDCASPER DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITYone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
Wyofile is an independent, nonprofit news service focused on the people, places and policy of wyoming. recognizing the rapid decline in resources among traditional news outlets, wyofile offers in-depth coverage of complicated subjects and…
Inspiring wyoming's leaders through exploration and connection.
Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
To ensure that the Wyoming State Fair serves as a vibrant celebration of our states agriculture, youth, education, heritage, and industry, while evolving to meet the needs of future generations. WSFF is the fundraising arm of the WSF,…
Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
The wyoming pbs foundation is dedicated to financially supporting wyoming pbs - wyoming's sole public television station, to visually preserve and tell the stories of our state.
The mission and purpose of the wyoming early childhood partnership is to lead a public-private partnership in the development of an accessible and sustainable, high quality, early childhood system that supports communities and families.
Forward wyoming is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to educating, training, and engineering a new generation of active citizens and young leaders. forward wyoming strives to educate the general public on issues of pressing…
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nathan Graves Scholarship Fund. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
104 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. 104 of the 192 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 OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERN STOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Casper Family YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TWO FLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EASTER ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds NICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Dementia Care ↗
- Who funds THE SCIENCE ZONE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The McMurry Foundation · Natrona Collective Health Trust · Zimmerman Family Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Double 4 Foundation · Central Wyoming Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute · United Way of Natrona County · The Goodstein Foundation · Daniels Fund · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Tw 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 Wold Foundation 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.
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
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.