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Wyoming First Foundation at a glance

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Wyoming First 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.

$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Community Improvement$89kRecreation & Sports$35kHuman Services$21kEducation$15kYouth Development$14kFood & Nutrition$7kCivil Rights$5kHealth$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAVID STREET STATION$30,000
WYOMING STATE FAIR FOUNDATION$25,000
NATRONA COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION$14,314
CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES INC$10,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS WYOMING$5,000
WOMEN FOR FAMILIES AND FREEDOM$5,000
WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA INC$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES INC: $10k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES INC: $9k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84k · 3 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$84k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+5%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • DS
    David Street Station
    2× · 2023–2024 · $55k
  • CW
    CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue -3%
  • SO
    Special Olympics Wyoming Inc
    2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • CD
    CASPER DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2023 · $34k
  • EW
    EASTERN WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +5%
  • CW
    Central Wyoming Junior Livestock Sale Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
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.

1
Wyoming Sheep Foundation
Food & Nutrition
2
Wyoming State 4-H Foundation

Promote 4-h activities on the state & local level.

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3
Wyoming Donor Alliance

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

Public Benefit
4
Caring Foundation of Wyoming
Human Services
5
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
6
Wyoming Food Coalition Wy Food Matters
Food & Nutrition
7
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

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

Animals
8
Dsc of Wyoming

Advocate for hunting and fishing rights in the state of Wyoming, to support and encourage the engagement and education of youth, sporstmen and sportswomen, and to foster the conservation of our outdoor heritage for future generations.

Public Benefit
9
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
10
Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Wyoming wildlife federation delivers leadership in conservation for the state's wildlife, hunters, anglers, and conservationists through policy, education, advocacy, and habitat.

Animals
11
Western Wyoming College Foundation

Support of western wyoming community college programs and scholarships

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming State Fair Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Central Wyoming Junior Livestock Sale Inc. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

David Street Station: $55,000 · Community ImprovementDavid Street StationAMERICA'S WOMEN: $5,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICA'S WOMENCASPER DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY: $34,000 · OtherCASPER DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT A…Special Olympics Wyoming Inc: $10,000 · OtherSpecial Olympics Wyoming Inc12-24 CLUB INC: $2,508 · OtherWreaths Across America: $2,500 · Other+1 more: $1,500 · OtherWyoming State Fair Foundation: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsWyoming State …CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES INC: $19,313 · Human ServicesCENTRAL WYO…EASTERN WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationNatrona County 4-H Foundation: $14,314 · Youth DevelopmentCentral Wyoming Junior Livestock Sale Inc: $6,821 · Food & Nutrition
Community Improvement$60,000Other$50,508Recreation & Sports$25,000Human Services$19,313Education$15,000Youth Development$14,314Food & Nutrition$6,821

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDavid Street Station: $55,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES INC: $19,313 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetEASTERN WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNatrona County 4-H Foundation: $14,314 over 1y, 23% of budgetSpecial Olympics Wyoming Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICA'S WOMEN: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget12-24 CLUB INC: $2,508 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWreaths Across America: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The McMurry FoundationWold FoundationWyoming Community Fou…
The McMurry FoundationDE17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McMurry Foundation · Wold Foundation · Wyoming Community 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 First Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wyoming First Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wyoming First Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wyoming First Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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