· Community foundation
Wyoming Community Foundation
The organizations mission is to connect people who care with causes that matter to build a better wyoming.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k128 grants · $733k
- $10k–50k218 grants · $4.1M
- $50k–250k48 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+7 grants · $6.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Wyoming Foundation | $2,505,000 |
| Wyoming Community Foundation | $1,168,866 |
| National Cowgirl Museum | $1,010,000 |
| Wyoming Classical Academy Inc | $500,732 |
| Individual grant recipient | $320,000 |
| Wyoming Agriculture in the Classroo | $319,806 |
| Ranching Heritage Association | $250,000 |
| Washakie Museum and Cultural Center | $241,335 |
| The Nature Conservancy Wyoming | $230,925 |
| Tongue River Valley Community Cente | $182,934 |
| Bonterra FKA Network For Good | $170,000 |
| Niobrara County Library Foundation | $159,066 |
| WyoFile | $150,419 |
| Climb Wyoming | $150,000 |
| Wyoming State Parks and Cultural Re | $120,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% 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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
311 repeat relationships — 235 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 148 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +116%
- WMWASHAKIE MUSEUM7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +37% · 41% of their budget
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Douglas6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +4%
Funded once
- GRGRANTEES RECEIVING OVER 5000one grant, 2017 · $1.3M
- SHSagewest Healthcareone grant, 2023 · $279k
- UEUPTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARDone grant, 2020 · $211k · revenue -101%
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 promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
Cowboy state daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.
To insure that wyoming's past remains accessible to present and future generations and to educate, support and foster the study of wyoming history.
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The wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.
The Wyoming Nonprofit Network represents the collective voice of the Wyoming charitable nonprofit sector and brings best practices, resources, and support to the nonprofit community.
We provide family planning service to those individuals who ned and request such services. we serve a six county area in western wyoming.
To raise funds on behalf of the wyoming county community hospital.
To empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.
WYCRP is committed to supporting the safety, permanence, and well-being of children through systematic reviews, education, prevention, and early intervention efforts. As a federally mandated entity, the Citizen Review Panel evaluates the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies and the most unlike its peers is Rainbow Rescues. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
444 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. 444 of the 654 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHAKIE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Douglas ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds NIOBRARA COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds TONGUE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Casper Family YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds WYOMING CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PILOT HILL INC ↗
- Who funds Sheridan County Young Mens Christian Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WYOMING PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming ↗
- Who funds Lincoln County Library Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SWEETWATER COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Platte River Trails Trust ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds UPTON REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UINTA COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OLDER & BOLDER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTON COUNTY LIBRARY 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 Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Natrona Collective Health Trust · The McMurry Foundation · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Wyoming Humanities Council · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Wyoming Governor's Residence Foundation · Wold Foundation · Zimmerman Family Foundation · United Way of Natrona County · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott 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 Wyoming Community 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.
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.