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Who funds disaster and safety in Wyoming

Funding is concentrated: Teton County Search & Rescue Foundation alone draws 54% of every disaster and safety grant dollar in Wyoming. One funder dominates the giving, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, at 45% of the total.

$12M
granted
48
organizations
49%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of disaster and safety in Wyoming

The funders giving the most to disaster and safety organizations in Wyoming, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Community Foundation of Jackson Hole$5M2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$1M3W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation$670k4Krohn Breakthrough Foundation$668k5Paypal Charitable Giving Fund$402k6Shepherds - a Family Foundation$375k7Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$276k8Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$266k9Mackenzie Family Foundation$250k10Thomas and Elizabeth Laffont Family Foundation C/O Coatue Management$250k

Disaster and safety organizations in Wyoming that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

Teton County Search & Rescue Foundation$6MUkraine Freedom Fund$2MJackson Hole Fireems Foundation$926kBridger-Teton Avalanche Center Foundation$692k
38 other disaster and safety organizations$570k

How to find disaster and safety funders in Wyoming

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in Wyoming

    The funders giving the most to disaster and safety in Wyoming are Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation. A funder already writing disaster and safety checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 2
    See who funds organizations like yours

    Open the disaster and safety organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.

  3. 3
    Add the out-of-state funders reaching in

    51% of disaster and safety money in Wyoming comes from funders elsewhere, so national disaster and safety funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Wyoming.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a disaster and safety nonprofit in Wyoming?
Start with the funders already giving to disaster and safety in Wyoming, currently Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation. Then look at who funds the disaster and safety organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Wyoming from out of state.
Who is the largest disaster and safety funder in Wyoming?
Community Foundation of Jackson Hole gives the most to disaster and safety organizations in Wyoming, $5M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to disaster and safety in Wyoming?
$12M reached 48 disaster and safety organizations in Wyoming, from 101 funders. 49% came from funders also based in Wyoming.
How recent is this data?
It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines
Giving abroad
which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.