Wyoming · Nonprofit
SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST
SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST (Wyoming) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $708,603 to it, the largest being COUGAR FUND INC ($708,603). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $301k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $709k
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Spencer Wilson Charitable Trust does
Mission
To conduct and support activities exclusively for the benefit of or to carry out the purposes for the cougar fund, inc., a wyoming nonprofit corporation and wildlife conservation efforts in north america for carnivorous animals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To conduct and support activities exclusively for the benefit of or to carry out the purposes for the cougar fund, inc., a wyoming nonprofit corporation and wildlife conservation efforts in north america for carnivorous animals.
$230,120 spentof which $230,120 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $230,120.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $3.8M to $3.0M (−21%).
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.
0% of SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $708k → $168.
From the IRS filings of SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST’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.
Where its funders are
100% of SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST's grant income comes from Wyoming funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST's revenue fell 91% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cougar Fund Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST: 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 SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST?
- SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST (Wyoming) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $708,603 to it, the largest being COUGAR FUND INC ($708,603). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $708,603 in grants to SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST?
- COUGAR FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $708,603 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPENCER WILSON CHARITABLE TRUST 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing