How much does Wold Foundation give?

Wold Foundation reported 128 grants totaling $2,757,966 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 86 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Wold Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (40%), Education (16%), Arts & Culture (14%).

Who are Wold Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Oregon Health & Science University Foundation ($3.1M), Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ($2.0M), University of Wyoming Foundation ($666k).

Does Wold Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Wold Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wold Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wyoming Community Foundation, The McMurry Foundation, Natrona Collective Health Trust.

Where is Wold Foundation based?

Wold Foundation is based in WY.

Wold Foundation

Wold Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Wold Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M

Granted FY2024still arriving

128

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$5.7MEducation$2.3MArts & Culture$2.0MRecreation & Sports$1.6MHuman Services$1.1MReligion$323kFood & Nutrition$293kYouth Development$272kOther$0

02FY2024 · 128 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k79 grants · $267k
$10k–50k40 grants · $635k
$50k–250k6 grants · $661k
$250k+3 grants · $1.2M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$53M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL	$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS	$25,000
CENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE	$25,000
FOOD BANK OF WYOMING	$24,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Wold Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 33% of the giving stays in WY; by stated purpose, 30%.

Wold Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$14M · 100 repeat orgs$526k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100

Total granted

$14M

$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+3%

Still filing today

61%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +79%
CH
Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +26%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION
5× · 2020–2024 · $666k · revenue +130%

Funded once

CW
CENTRAL WYOMING COMMUNITY COLLEGE
one grant, 2021 · $50k
UC
UNION COLLEGE
one grant, 2021 · $25k
CD
CASPER DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
one grant, 2023 · $20k

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.

04Its field

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.

Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment

Wyofile

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…

Arts & Culture

Leadership Wyoming

Inspiring wyoming's leaders through exploration and connection.

Public Benefit

Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals

The Wyldlife Fund

To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.

Animals

Wyoming State Fair Foundation

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,…

Recreation & Sports

Better Wyoming

Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.

Public Benefit

Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health

Wyoming Pbs Foundation

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.

Arts & Culture

Wyoming Early Childhood Partnership

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.

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Forward Wyoming

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…

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Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Community Foundation; 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.

05the grantee network

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

104/104

Grantees still filing

61/104

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,755,875Education$4,765,853Health$2,211,200Recreation & Sports$589,291Arts & Culture$358,000Environment$211,000Youth Development$156,000

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.

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.

Wyoming Community FoundationWY79.4× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wold Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wold Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

25report 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, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home