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Wyoming Philanthropic Trust Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$292k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$112k
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$7.4MEnvironment$350kEducation$340kHealth$220kPhilanthropy$212kPublic Benefit$100kHuman Services$35kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $212k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUFFALO BILL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION$111,666
MUSEUM TRUSTEE ASSOCIATION$100,000
SALISBURY SCHOOL INC$20,000
JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST$20,000
LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA$15,000
DAVID LAWRENCE CENTERS$10,000
CODY REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
BATH AND TENNIS CLUB HISTORIC$5,000
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 (FY25–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA: $15k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
WY
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
FL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 11 repeat orgs$235k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$8.1M
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+7%

Still filing today

64%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MT
    MUSEUM TRUSTEE ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $460k · revenue +35%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $200k · revenue +116%
  • SS
    SALISBURY SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • OD
    OPERATION DEMOCRACY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -74% · 59% of their budget
  • LP
    LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +430%
  • YB
    YELLOWSTONE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTE
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
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 Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment
2
Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment
3
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
4
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
5
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
6
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
7
Western Conservation Foundation

Building leaders to protect the west's land, air, and water.

Environment
8
Wyoming Assoc of Conservation Districts

The wyoming association of conservation districts provides leadership for the conservation of wyoming's soil and water resources through a responsible conservation ethic.

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9
Wyofile

Wyofile is an independent, nonprofit news service focused on the people, places and policy of wyoming. recognizing the rapid decline in resources among traditional news outlets, wyofile offers in-depth coverage of complicated subjects and…

Arts & Culture
10
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
11
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
12
The Landmark Society of Western New York Inc

To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wyoming Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Craig Hospital Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Buffalo Bill Memorial Association: $6,867,574 · Arts & CultureBuffalo Bill Memorial AssociationMUSEUM TRUSTEE ASSOCIATION: $460,141 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM TRUSTEE ASSOCIATION+1 more: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $113,333 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY -WY CHAPTER: $106,667 · OtherOPERATION DEMOCRACY INC: $100,000 · OtherCODY REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $74,500 · OtherYELLOWSTONE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTE: $30,000 · OtherDAVID LAWRENCE CENTERS: $20,000 · Other+2 more: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationSALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $140,000 · EducationJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $130,000 · EnvironmentLEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS: $50,000 · EnvironmentWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $161,650 · PhilanthropyCraig Hospital Foundation: $100,000 · HealthWYO HOOFBEATS EAL: $5,000 · HealthPARK COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $25,000 · AnimalsLUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA INC: $15,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$7,352,715Other$469,500Education$340,000Environment$180,000Philanthropy$161,650Health$105,000Animals$25,000Human Services$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBuffalo Bill Memorial Association: $6,867,574 over 8y, 39% of budgetMUSEUM TRUSTEE ASSOCIATION: $460,141 over 8y, 24% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $161,650 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $140,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST: $130,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $113,333 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION DEMOCRACY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetLEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPARK COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $25,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA INC: $15,000 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.

  • Who funds Buffalo Bill Memorial Association ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM TRUSTEE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION DEMOCRACY INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY PHILANTHROPY WORKS ↗
  • Who funds PARK COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds WYO HOOFBEATS EAL ↗

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.

Allen Wyoming Foundation IncWY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Allen Wyoming Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Philanthropic Trust Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wyoming Philanthropic Trust Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Lutheran Services Florida Inc: 19% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report 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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How do I get to Wyoming Philanthropic Trust Inc?

Find your warmest path to Wyoming Philanthropic Trust Inc 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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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