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Wolf Creek Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Animals$22MHealth$13MEnvironment$4.3MHuman Services$1.7MArts & Culture$766kScience & Tech$340kEducation$222kCommunity Improvement$205kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $555k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $900k
  • $250k+6 grants · $5.7M
$20,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLL GLOBAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION$2,000,000
CORNELL LABORATORY OF ORNITHOLOGY$2,000,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$500,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$500,000
THE ARCHIVES OF FALCONRY$400,000
AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY$250,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$200,000
FARES$200,000
THE PEREGRINE FUND INC$100,000
SHERIDAN CO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FDN$50,000
ISLAND CONSERVATION$50,000
NORTH AMERICAN GROUSE PARTNERSHIP$50,000
THE RAPTOR CENTER$50,000
LAND TRUST ALLIANCE$50,000
HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOC$50,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $161k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Climb: $2k → 10%Climb: $2k → 10%THE HUB ON SMITH: $25k → 10%The Hub on Smith: $25k → 10%THE HUB ON SMITH: $20k → 10%THE HUB ON SMITH: $20k → 10%THE HUB ON SMITH: $20k → 10%Advocacy & Resource Center: $5k → 10%Advocacy & Resource Center: $5k → 10%ADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%ADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%ADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%Advocacy & Resource Center: $5k → 10%ADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%Advocacy & Resource Center: $5k → 10%WYO WEST WARRIORS FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%WYO West Warriors Foundation: $2k → 10%WYO WEST WARRIORS FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$36M · 79 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

79 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
16

Total granted

$36M
$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+77%

Still filing today

62%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CG
    CLL Global Research Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +57% · 87% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PEREGRINE FUND INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +122%
  • AB
    American Bird Conservancy
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • AO
    ARCHIVES OF FALCONRY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5.0M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR THE COLONIAL THEATRE
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
3
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
4
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
5
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

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

Animals
6
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment
7
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
8
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment
9
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
10
Discover Life in America Inc

Dlia will develop a model for research in biodiversity and will use the knowledge to develop and disseminate information to encourage the discovery, understanding, preservation, and enjoyment of natural resources.

Environment
11
International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals
12
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Island Conservation and the most unlike its peers is Earthspan. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMilitary Veterans SupportCancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Public Library OperationsDomestic Violence ServicesCommunity Arts CentersHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%61%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,502

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.

04the grantee network

59 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 100 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
50/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology — $12,500,000 · OtherCornell Laboratory of OrnithologyARCHIVES OF FALCONRY INC (THE) — $5,000,000 · OtherARCHIVES OF FALCONRY INC (THE)THE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $1,750,000 · OtherTHE PEREGRINE FUND INCFARES — $1,060,000 · Other+52 more — $3,618,284 · Other+52 moreCLL Global Research Foundation — $11,500,000 · HealthCLL Global Research FoundationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500,000 · Health+7 more — $556,000 · HealthAmerican Bird Conservancy — $1,450,000 · AnimalsARCHIVES OF FALCONRY INC — $400,000 · AnimalsMACAL RAPTOR CENTER AND AVIAN SANCTUARY INC — $221,731 · AnimalsGEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC — $190,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $170,000 · AnimalsHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION — $165,000 · Animals+6 more — $276,268 · AnimalsLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $426,028 · EnvironmentISLAND CONSERVATION — $400,000 · EnvironmentPOWDER RIVER BASIN RESOURCE COUNCIL — $155,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE — $125,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $125,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $105,000 · EnvironmentDEEP PORTAGE FOUNDATION — $105,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY CLOUD FOREST CONSERVATION — $80,000 · EnvironmentWYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL — $70,000 · Environment+5 more — $149,000 · EnvironmentGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $1,425,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WOLF CREEK OPERATING FOUNDATION — $175,000 · PhilanthropyASSOCIATION FOR THE COLONIAL THEATRE — $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH — $145,000 · Arts & CultureWYO THEATRE INC — $115,000 · Arts & CultureSHERIDAN ARTISTS GUILD ET AL — $105,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BRADFORD BRINTON MEMORIAL — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureRAINFOREST TRUST — $200,000 · International
Other$23,928,284Health$12,556,000Animals$2,872,999Environment$1,740,028Philanthropy$1,600,000Arts & Culture$655,000International$200,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCLL Global Research Foundation — $11,500,000 over 8y, 87% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $1,750,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $1,450,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $1,425,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $426,028 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION — $400,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetARCHIVES OF FALCONRY INC — $400,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMACAL RAPTOR CENTER AND AVIAN SANCTUARY INC — $221,731 over 6y, 84% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $215,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE COLONIAL THEATRE — $200,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHIGH ARCTIC INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $200,000 over 8y, 35% of budgetGEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC — $190,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetSCIENCE KIDS — $185,000 over 8y, 35% of budgetTHE WOLF CREEK OPERATING FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 2y, 54% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $170,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION — $165,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetPOWDER RIVER BASIN RESOURCE COUNCIL — $155,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetTHE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH — $145,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTETON RAPTOR CENTER — $130,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetWESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE — $125,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $125,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWYO THEATRE INC — $115,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetSENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL — $110,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIDAN ARTISTS GUILD ET AL — $105,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetDEEP PORTAGE FOUNDATION — $105,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLOUD FOREST CONSERVATION — $80,000 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetRAPTOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetWYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL — $70,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $60,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $55,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetRAPTORS OF THE ROCKIES — $55,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetSHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetRESEARCH TO PREVENT BLINDNESS INC — $45,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION — $45,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetMULE DEER FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetADVOCACY & RESOURCE CENTER — $40,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetEARTHSPAN — $39,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetTHE AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCIATION — $35,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - REGION II INC — $28,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetROGER TORY PETERSON INSTITUTE OF NA — $28,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMONTANA AUDUBON — $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 CLL Global Research Foundation
  • Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC
  • Who funds American Bird Conservancy
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds ISLAND CONSERVATION
  • Who funds ARCHIVES OF FALCONRY INC
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds MACAL RAPTOR CENTER AND AVIAN SANCTUARY INC
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE COLONIAL THEATRE
  • Who funds HIGH ARCTIC INSTITUTE INCORPORATED
  • Who funds GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON AVIAN RESEARCH CENTER INC
  • Who funds SCIENCE KIDS
  • Who funds THE WOLF CREEK OPERATING FOUNDATION
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HAWK MOUNTAIN SANCTUARY ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds POWDER RIVER BASIN RESOURCE COUNCIL
  • Who funds THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH
  • Who funds TETON RAPTOR CENTER
  • Who funds WESTERN LANDOWNERS ALLIANCE
  • Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC
  • Who funds WYO THEATRE INC
  • Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN COUNCIL
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds SHERIDAN ARTISTS GUILD ET AL
  • Who funds DEEP PORTAGE 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.

Wyoming Community FoundationWY39.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · The Seidler Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · The Riggs Foundation · Muriel and Seymour Thickman Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Roberts Family Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Wyoming Humanities Council · Eyas 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 Wolf Creek Charitable 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center Inc68% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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