How much does Wyoming Community Foundation give?

Wyoming Community Foundation reported 401 grants totaling $11,894,411 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 282 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Wyoming Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (18%), Education (18%), Human Services (10%).

Who are Wyoming Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Wyoming Foundation ($2.6M), Washakie Museum ($1.6M), Boys & Girls Club of Douglas ($1.2M).

Does Wyoming Community Foundation fund new organizations?

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

Where is Wyoming Community Foundation based?

Wyoming Community Foundation is based in WY.

Wyoming Community Foundation

Wyoming Community Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

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Wyoming Community Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Wyoming Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network, Natrona Collective Health Trust, The McMurry Foundation.

The organizations mission is to connect people who care with causes that matter to build a better wyoming.

$12M

Granted FY2024still arriving

401

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$2.5M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$8.9MEducation$8.7MHuman Services$4.7MPhilanthropy$3.3MHealth$3.3MYouth Development$3.2MFood & Nutrition$2.6MEnvironment$2.4MOther$0

02FY2024 · 401 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k128 grants · $733k
$10k–50k218 grants · $4.1M
$50k–250k48 grants · $4.8M
$250k+7 grants · $6.1M

$10,732

Median grant

States reached

$231M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

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.

show:

Its 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 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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$38M · 311 repeat orgs$7.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

311

185

Total granted

$38M

$4.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%

+3%

Still filing today

78%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +116%
WM
WASHAKIE MUSEUM
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +37% · 41% of their budget
BG
Boys & Girls Club of Douglas
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +4%

Funded once

GR
GRANTEES RECEIVING OVER 5000
one grant, 2017 · $1.3M
SH
Sagewest Healthcare
one grant, 2023 · $279k
UE
UPTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD
one grant, 2020 · $211k · revenue -101%

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 Wildlife Advocates

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

Animals

Cowboy State Daily

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.

Arts & Culture

Caring Foundation of Wyoming

Human Services

Wyoming Historical Society Group Return

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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Wyoming Cares Inc

None

Human Services

Wyoming Donor Alliance

The wyoming donor alliance supports a network of statewide organizations focused on increasing civic participation.

Public Benefit

Western Wyoming Family Planning Inc

We provide family planning service to those individuals who ned and request such services. we serve a six county area in western wyoming.

Health

Wyoming County Healthcare Center Ii

Health

Wyoming Sheep Foundation

Food & Nutrition

Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network

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.

Philanthropy

Wyoming Community Hospital Foundation

To raise funds on behalf of the wyoming county community hospital.

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Yellowstone County Assistance Network

To empower people living in the big horn basin of wyoming to enhance health and employment status, overcome obsticales, and end economic hardship.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteers of America Northern Rockies; 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.

04the grantee network

444 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)

429/444

Grantees still filing

266/444

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$22,403,050Education$5,313,981Arts & Culture$5,256,720Philanthropy$3,291,871Human Services$2,428,095Youth Development$1,903,820Health$1,418,537

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit NetworkWY172.5× affinity93 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wyoming Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wyoming Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

67report 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