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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.

$699k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$319k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.9MEducation$690kYouth Development$657kPhilanthropy$481kHousing & Shelter$251kHealth$221kRecreation & Sports$217kHuman Services$197kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $250k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $319k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY CHURCH$318,870
Individual grant recipient$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL WYO$35,751
CENTRAL WYOMING COUNSELING CENTER$35,000
ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$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
CASPER YOUTH FOR CHRIST$10,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$10,000
12-24 CLUB$10,000
TRUE CARE WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER$7,000
MERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EVANSTON: $3k → 5%CLIMB WYOMING: $7k → 10%CATHEDRAL HOME FOR CHILDREN: $300 → 17%CLIMB WYOMING: $1k → 10%CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $50k → 11%CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $25k → 11%CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $15k → 11%CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $10k → 11%WYOMING FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE: $4k → 11%BRAIN INJURY ALLIANCE OF WYOMING: $3k → 11%WYOMING FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE: $1k → 11%WYOMING FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE: $500 → 11%CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $20k → 11%JASON'S FREINDS FOUNDATION: $16k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $3k → 11%CENTRAL WYOMING SENIOR SERVICES: $2k → 11%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $2k → 11%CASA OF NATRONA COUNTY: $2k → 11%JASON'S FREINDS FOUNDATION: $600 → 11%JASON'S FREINDS FOUNDATION: $600 → 11%JASON'S FREINDS FOUNDATION: $600 → 11%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $500 → 11%JASON'S FREINDS FOUNDATION: $350 → 11%JASON'S FREINDS FOUNDATION: $350 → 11%JASON'S FREINDS FOUNDATION: $350 → 11%NATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS: $300 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
ID
MT
IL
NY
MA
WY
IN
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 55 repeat orgs$508k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
73

Total granted

$4.0M
$370k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
-5%

Still filing today

73%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionYouth 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

  • BG
    Boys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming
    8× · 2017–2024 · $405k · revenue +78%
  • WR
    Wyoming Rescue Mission
    8× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +27%
  • CF
    CASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS
    5× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HOGADON
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
  • EC
    EMORY CHRISTIAN CAMPUS FELLOWSHIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $36k · revenue +75%
  • HR
    HUNGER RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -24%
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
Wrap Around Wyoming Inc

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…

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2
Recover Wyoming

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…

Health
3
Carbon County Counseling Center

To provide professional counseling services related primarily to mental health and substance abuse to the residents of Carbon County, Wyoming.

—
4
Wyoming Health Resources Network Inc

To improve and enhance rural health services and promote healthier individuals and communities in wyoming.

Health
5
Serve Wyoming Inc

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.

Philanthropy
6
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
7
Wyoming Cares Inc

None

Human Services
8
The Wyldlife Fund

To unite people to advance wyoming wildlife habitat, research, and education.

Animals
9
Wyoming Citizen Review Panel

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…

Human Services
10
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
11
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
12
Better Wyoming

Better wyoming works to educate, organize and mobilize wyoming residents on behalf of statewide change.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make a Wish Foundation of Wyoming; 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.
04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 137 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/82
Grantees still filing
48/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY CHURCH: $1,700,470 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCASPER YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $204,000 · OtherCASPER YOUTH FOR CHRISTHORIZON INTERNATIONAL INC: $109,000 · Other+89 more: $902,168 · Other+89 moreANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD: $469,707 · PhilanthropyANGLO-AMERI…Jae Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $7,000 · PhilanthropyBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming: $404,567 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girl…FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP …HAVEN ON THE ROCK: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentHAVEN ON TH…+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $108,500 · EducationCASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $57,000 · EducationHOGADON NIGHT SKIING PROJECT: $41,000 · EducationCASPER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $20,400 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $20,000 · Education+5 more: $17,500 · EducationWyoming Rescue Mission: $241,100 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $9,850 · Housing & Shelter12-24 CLUB INC: $65,000 · HealthCENTRAL WYOMING COUNSELING CENTER: $35,000 · HealthPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $23,250 · HealthMERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $15,628 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $15,000 · HealthChildrens Advocacy Project: $8,000 · HealthCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - REGION II INC: $7,000 · Health+5 more: $8,940 · HealthCASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $120,000 · Human ServicesJASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $18,850 · Human ServicesCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $8,000 · Human Services+8 more: $21,600 · Human Services
Other$3,165,638Philanthropy$501,707Youth Development$489,567Education$264,400Housing & Shelter$250,950Health$177,818Human Services$168,450

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetANGLO-AMERICAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LTD: $469,707 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Central Wyoming: $404,567 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetWyoming Rescue Mission: $241,100 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCASPER FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $120,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetHORIZON INTERNATIONAL INC: $109,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $108,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budget12-24 CLUB INC: $65,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetCASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $57,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOGADON NIGHT SKIING PROJECT: $41,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetHAVEN ON THE ROCK: $35,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING COUNSELING CENTER: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSpecial Olympics Wyoming Inc: $29,800 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetJae Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHUNGER RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $23,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCASPER CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $20,400 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJASON'S FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $18,850 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetMERCER FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $15,628 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWyoming Symphony Orchestra Inc: $15,250 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROUD TO HOST THE BEST INC: $15,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetTHE SCIENCE ZONE: $13,900 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSelf Help Center Inc: $9,040 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Project: $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUM: $8,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER - REGION II INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe King's College: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetI-Reach 2 Inc: $5,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARCLAY COLLEGE: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHACK: $5,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWYOMING FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE INC: $5,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCASPER SPORTS ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCASA of Natrona County: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEagle Mount: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Douglas: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $4,885 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH CRISIS CENTER: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRenew World Outreach Inc: $3,965 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING HOSPICE & TRANSITIONS: $3,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Greenhouse Arts & Media Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF WYOMING: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVISION BEYOND BORDERS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTERLING COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATRONA COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $2,800 over 3y, 0.1% 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 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 HAVEN ON THE ROCK ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL WYOMING COUNSELING CENTER ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Community Fou…The McMurry FoundationNatrona Collective He…Wold FoundationFirst Interstate Banc…United Way of Natrona…Double 4 FoundationThe John P Ellbogen F…Central Wyoming Chapt…The Goodstein Foundat…Daniels FundSkelton Myra F Founda…
Wyoming Community FoundationWY76.5× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Code & Circuit Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

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How do I get to Zimmerman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Zimmerman Family 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 137 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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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