Wyoming · Nonprofit
WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND
WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND (Wyoming) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,552,410 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($3,000,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What Wind River Development Fund does
Mission
The organization's mission is to provide financial opportunities to stimulate economic development on and near the wind river indian reservation, to promote self-sufficiency, self-determination, and an enhanced quality of life for the reservation community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Lending - provides loans to small businesses on or near wind river indian reservation for business purposes or community development projects.
$180,907 spent$147,764 earned by the program21% of program spendingDevelopment services: provides training and one-on-one technical assistance to entrepreneurs on or near wind river indian reservation.
$675,490 spent$187,413 earned by the program79% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $856,397.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.2M to $11M (+58%).
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: 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 18% · 2022 8% · 2023 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Scott Ratliff
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $299k → $609k.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND’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
WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 58% · 2020 49% · 2021 43% · 2022 55% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.
“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
29% of WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Wyoming, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.3M on record.
- Department of Commerce$8.4M
- Department of the Treasury$1.4M
- Department of Agriculture$523k
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Painted Pony Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND: 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 WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND?
- WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND (Wyoming) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,552,410 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($3,000,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $6,552,410 in grants to WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WIND RIVER DEVELOPMENT FUND 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 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