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Wonder Institute
We empower leaders by providing vital community spaces and innovative programming.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $23,607 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $35,139 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,532 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fund for Public Education | $23,607 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DWDANCERS WORKSHOP4× · 2017–2020 · $177k · revenue +29%
GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $64k · revenue +77%- OSOFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY3× · 2017–2019 · $35k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- VHVERTICAL HARVEST L3Cone grant, 2017 · $46k
- TAThe Art Association of Jackson Holeone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +16%
- JHJackson Hole Public Artgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +71%
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.
Jackson wild is a catalyst for our industry recognizing excellence in storytelling, celebrating innovative ideas and creating connections for deeper impact. our global community of passionate storytellers, thought leaders and change agents…
To fuel local, regional and global tech ecosystems to shape a better future.
To inspire and foster creativity and a love of art through diverse and high quality exhibits programs classes and lectures.
Mission: to foster a thriving and vibrant downtown driggs. downtown driggs association is a donor supported nonprofit. as a designated main street america organization, our mission is to foster a thriving and vibrant downtown driggs. we do…
Grand Teton National Park Foundation (the Foundation) is a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to partner with Grand Teton National Park to steward, protect, and enhance all that is special in the park. Budget limitations,…
Montana center for the arts purpose is to nurture, promote and expand cultural engagement and opportunity in our region. through collaboration with the community at large, and in partnership with the area's diverse cultural and educational…
Jackson hole nordic alliance connects people & winter trails. we are the resource hub for local nordic, fat bike, snowshoe & trail information. we help build the winter trails community & promote responsible recreation.
Wildtorium is an interactive children's museum dedicated to inspiring curiosity, creativity, and connection through hands-on exhibits and playful learning experiences. Our mission is to provide families in the Flathead Valley with engaging…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jackson Hole Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 15 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 DANCERS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds TETON ARTLAB ↗
- Who funds OFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds Art Partners ↗
- Who funds The Art Association of Jackson Hole ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds Jackson Hole Public Art ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE ABILITY ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Star Gazing ↗
- Who funds Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE WRITERS ↗
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: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Wyoming Humanities Council · The Brooks Foundation · Jackson Hole Public Art · Stoneriver Foundation · The Portland Trust II · The Opatrny Family Foundation · William E Weiss Foundation Inc · Ac and Penney Hubbard Foundation Inc · Kenneth and Caroline Taylor Family Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc
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 Wonder Institute 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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