Wyoming · Nonprofit
NEEDS INC
NEEDS INC (Wyoming) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $653,591 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LARAMIE COUNTY ($452,422). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $470k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $654k
- Net assets
- $371k
What Needs Inc does
Mission
To provide laramie county residents with basic necessities of life and the tools to help them improve their lives. Services include emergency food provisions, clothing, household items, furniture, assistance and referrals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General services: needs, inc, is the largest food pantry in laramie county providing food, clothing, household goods, furniture, emergency and crisis services to laramie county residents in need. Needs served 765 households with food boxes. Provided a total of 588,490 pounds of food. The clothing center was shopped 17,368 times and provided items of clothing and housewares to clients.
$426,622 spent$15,175 earned by the program99% of program spendingOperations back to school: beginning in late summer and extending through the school year, needs, inc. Provides qualified families with required school supplies such as pens, pencils, backpacks, notebooks and crayons.
$3,404 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $430,026.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $605k to $331k (−45%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 28% · 2022 23% · 2023 46% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of NEEDS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kristen-Erin Balderaz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $111k → $69k.
2 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of NEEDS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
NEEDS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NEEDS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 93% · 2019 94% · 2020 62% · 2021 55% · 2022 56% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
55% of NEEDS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
82% of NEEDS INC's grant income comes from Wyoming funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
NEEDS INC is better cushioned than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NEEDS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wyoming
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEEDS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEEDS INC?
- NEEDS INC (Wyoming) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $653,591 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF LARAMIE COUNTY ($452,422). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEEDS INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $653,591 in grants to NEEDS INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEEDS INC?
- UNITED WAY OF LARAMIE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $452,422 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEEDS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wyoming. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing