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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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2021
216
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$79k
Largest
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202021.

Human Services$1.1MEducation$867kYouth Development$238kArts & Culture$134kAnimals$128kCrime & Legal$79kReligion$68kFood & Nutrition$46kOther$0
02FY2021 · 216 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 216 grants below total $3,090,181 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,218,427 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $128,246 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.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k100 grants · $699k
  • $10k–50k110 grants · $2.0M
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $388k
$10,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF CHILD ABUSE PR$78,585
PROMISE PATCH KIDS$66,162
LITTLE MONKEYS$65,500
Individual grant recipient$61,654
Individual grant recipient$58,422
MOOSE CORNER CHILDRENS ACADEMY$57,848
SCOTTY'S TOY BOX$46,184
LINCOLN COUNTY SCHOOL DIS 2$45,000
WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY SVCS$43,300
BASIC BEGINNINGS SOUTH$41,400
KIDS KAMPUS$41,171
EVANSTON CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$40,159
SUBLETTE SCHOOL DISTRICT 1$39,800
JACKIE AGUILAR$37,012
CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER$35,512
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE: $8k → 10%VALLEY VILLAGE CHILD CARE CENTER: $10k → 12%PLATTE COUNTY DAY CARE CENTER: $11k → 12%APPLE VALLEY SCHOOL: $24k → 17%KIDS PRINTS: $12k → 9%MOOSE CORNER CHILDRENS ACADEMY: $58k → 5%CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $23k → 10%YOUNG AT HEART EARLY LEARNING CENTE: $35k → 12%DEVELOPMENTAL PRESCHOOL & DAYCARE: $33k → 17%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.

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 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
Mountain Tots Preschool

Mountain Tots preschool provides high quality early learning enrichment programs that enhances educational, social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development as well as Kindergarten-readiness. We provide preschool and childcare…

Education
2
Lakota Child Care Center

Provide safe, affordable childcare to the area.

Human Services
3
Wilmore Day Care Center

At Wilmore Day Care Center, it is our mission to provide holistic care for your child within a loving, Christian environment. We strive to ensure a well-rounded educational experience that will encourage lifelong learning.

4
Little Lambs Childcare Center
Human Services
5
Pinedale Preschool Inc

Educational and Social Development

6
Child Development Center
Human Services
7
Winters Child Development Center Inc

The winters child development center is dedicated to providing the best quality childcare in the winters area and educating the children with a christian based curriculum.

Human Services
8
Chaffee County Childcare

At Ark Valley Preschool, we strive to create a nurturing and stimulating environment where young children can flourish. Our mission is to support the holistic development of each child by fostering independent thinking, creativity, and a…

Human Services
9
Beggining Child Care Center

Child care services and child preschool instruction

Education
10
Monarch Preschool Inc

Monarch Preschool offers a unique play-based learning experience for your child. Play-based, child-led education supports social and emotional development, strengthens language and numeracy skills, and inspires a life-long love of learning.

11
Mountain Playschool Inc
12
Giggles & Grace Early Learning Center

Giggles & grace early learning center, inc., with community, parents and teachers, is committed to providing a safe, nurturing christian environment emphasizing the total development of each child; spiritual, intellectual, emotional,…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Developmental Preschool and Day Care and the most unlike its peers is Valley Village Childcare. 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 36 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%4%<5yr13%20%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr13%8%20–35yr15%48%35–55yr14%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%3%<5yr13%12%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr13%17%20–35yr15%44%35–55yr14%8%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/145
the rest of the field
11%
424/3,835

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

27 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. 27 of the 214 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
14/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+181 more — $2,629,662 · Other+181 moreMOOSE CORNER CHILDREN'S ACADEMY — $57,848 · Human ServicesYOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER — $34,959 · Human ServicesDEVELOPMENTAL PRESCHOOL AND DAY CARE — $32,960 · Human ServicesAPPLE VALLEY SCHOOL — $24,150 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S CENTER — $22,683 · Human ServicesKID PRINTS INC — $12,094 · Human ServicesPLATTE COUNTY DAY CARE CENTER — $10,500 · Human ServicesVALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE — $9,500 · Human ServicesTONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE — $7,580 · Human ServicesWESTON COUNTY CHILDREN'S CENTER — $15,500 · EducationMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CHEYENNE — $15,289 · EducationSTRIDE LEARNING CENTER — $15,000 · EducationMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CASPER — $11,000 · EducationExcel Academy — $11,000 · EducationLaramie Christian Academy — $8,500 · EducationACADEMY OF THE WINDS — $7,500 · EducationCASPER HOUSING AUTHORITY CARES — $41,171 · Housing & ShelterEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $30,000 · PhilanthropyJOHNSON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA — $13,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,629,662Human Services$212,274Education$83,789Housing & Shelter$41,171Philanthropy$30,000Recreation & Sports$13,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMOOSE CORNER CHILDREN'S ACADEMY — $57,848 over 1y, 23% of budgetCASPER HOUSING AUTHORITY CARES — $41,171 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetEvanston Child Development Center — $40,159 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC — $35,512 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER — $34,959 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFIRST LIGHT CHILD CARE INC — $33,659 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL PRESCHOOL AND DAY CARE — $32,960 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAPPLE VALLEY SCHOOL — $24,150 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER — $22,683 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCasper Family YMCA INC — $20,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCheyenne Family Young Men's Christian Association — $20,050 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYWCA SWEETWATER COUNTY — $19,700 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CHEYENNE — $15,289 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSTRIDE LEARNING CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetABSAROKA HEAD START — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLittle People Learning Center Inc — $13,888 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA — $13,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKID PRINTS INC — $12,094 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CASPER — $11,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPLATTE COUNTY DAY CARE CENTER — $10,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetVALLEY VILLAGE CHILDCARE — $9,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetLaramie Christian Academy — $8,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetTONGUE RIVER CHILDS PLACE — $7,580 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetACADEMY OF THE WINDS — $7,500 over 1y, 2.7% 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 MOOSE CORNER CHILDREN'S ACADEMY
  • Who funds CASPER HOUSING AUTHORITY CARES
  • Who funds Evanston Child Development Center
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC
  • Who funds YOUNG AT HEART SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER
  • Who funds FIRST LIGHT CHILD CARE INC
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL PRESCHOOL AND DAY CARE
  • Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE
  • Who funds APPLE VALLEY SCHOOL
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER
  • Who funds Casper Family YMCA INC

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 FoundationWY29.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · Joe and Arlene Watt Foundation Inc · Wyoming Governor's Residence Foundation · Natrona Collective Health Trust · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Early Childhood Partnership 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report 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, 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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Wyoming Early Childhood Partnership?

    Find your warmest path to Wyoming Early Childhood Partnership through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 214 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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