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Zimmerman Family 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.
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 $10k11 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $319k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY CHURCH | $318,870 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL WYO | $35,751 |
| ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $35,000 |
| CENTRAL WYOMING COUNSELING CENTER | $35,000 |
| WYOMING RESCUE MISSION | $29,000 |
| CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS | $25,000 |
| JAE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ROBIN WOOD MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| 5150 TOURISM | $15,000 |
| 12-24 CLUB | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
| CASPER YOUTH FOR CHRIST | $10,000 |
| TRUE CARE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $7,000 |
| MERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% 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 +42% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 8 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; $139k 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
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming8× · 2017–2024 · $405k · revenue +74%
- WRWyoming Rescue Mission8× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +27%
- CFCASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS5× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF HOGADONone grant, 2019 · $75k
- ECEMORY CHRISTIAN CAMPUS FELLOWSHIP INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $36k · revenue +75%
- HRHUNGER RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -24%
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.
Focus on individual and family identified priorities and strengths and success. collaborate by including community partner supports and resources families choose themselves so people can thrive. support people where they are. empower them…
The mission of recover wyoming is to advocate for persons in recovery and mobilize resources to aid them, their families and allies, to increase the occurence and quality of long-term recovery from addiction. through recovery promotion and…
To provide professional counseling services related primarily to mental health and substance abuse to the residents of Carbon County, Wyoming.
To improve and enhance rural health services and promote healthier individuals and communities in wyoming.
The strengthen Wyoming communities by fostering a spirit of service and volunteerism among citizens of all ages and carry out a national service program as authorized by the National and Community Service Act of 1990.
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
None
To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.
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…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
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.
Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make a Wish Foundation of Wyoming and the most unlike its peers is Hogadon Night Skiing Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
82 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. 82 of the 137 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
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 ANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds HORIZON INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOGADON ↗
- Who funds 12-24 CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds HOGADON NIGHT SKIING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EMORY CHRISTIAN CAMPUS FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WYOMING COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAVEN ON THE ROCK ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Wyoming Inc ↗
- Who funds Jae Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNGER RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds CASPER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds JASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
- Who funds PROUD TO HOST THE BEST 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.
Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · The McMurry Foundation · Natrona Collective Health Trust · Wold Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · United Way of Natrona County · Double 4 Foundation · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Central Wyoming Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute · The Goodstein Foundation · Daniels Fund · Skelton Myra F 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 Zimmerman Family 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Code & Circuit Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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