Western States Learning Corporation
Cheyenne, WY · EIN 43-2038597. Reported 58 grants totalling $5,746,650 to 44 organizations across tax years 2022-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Western States Learning Corporation, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B82) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $21,514 and $137,500; the smallest was $5,295 and the largest $594,364. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Wyoming | Laramie, WY | $1,009,460 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rocky Mountain Manor Inc | Powell, WY | $406,465 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ep-Rsal LLC Dba Deer Trail Assisted Living | Rock Springs, WY | $401,165 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| House of Prayer Evangelical Church of the Evangelical Church of Na | Cody, WY | $359,753 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bighorn Valley Health Center Incorporated | Hardin, MT | $345,996 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| ONE22 Inc | Jackson, WY | $275,165 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cheyenne Health & Wellness Center | Cheyenne, WY | $265,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Senior Citizens Council | Sheridan, WY | $194,605 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ep-Mpal LLC Dba Mountain Plaza Assisted Living | Casper, WY | $183,601 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eppson Center for Seniors Inc | Laramie, WY | $181,291 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wyoming Resorts LLC Dba Best Western Sheridan Center | Sheridan, WY | $144,578 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Safehouse Services | Cheyenne, WY | $139,237 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| High Point Counseling | Rock Springs, WY | $139,147 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater Cty | Rock Springs, WY | $137,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Comea Inc | Cheyenne, WY | $125,460 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cheyenne Animal Shelter-Services | Cheyenne, WY | $124,577 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Big Horn County Fire Protection District 4 | Burlington, WY | $104,618 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Compass Center for Families | Sheridan, WY | $91,602 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Emg Cheyenne Sh LLC | Cheyenne, WY | $78,382 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Niobrara County | Lusk, WY | $75,549 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Youth Emergency Services Inc | Gillette, WY | $74,750 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Crisis Intervention Service | Cody, WY | $70,404 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Big Horn Hospital | Lovell, WY | $68,574 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wyoming 211 | Cheyenne, WY | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Casper Christ United Methodist Church | Casper, WY | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hoskinson Health & Wellness Clinic LLC | Gillette, WY | $57,999 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Banner Health Foundation Washakie Medical Center | Phoenix, AZ | $56,908 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| First Stop Help Center | Lander, WY | $50,303 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Safety Network | Jackson, WY | $50,260 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lincoln County School District 2 | Afton, WY | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Emg Cheyenne Aspen Wind LLC | Cheyenne, WY | $40,912 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Safe Haven of Hot Springs County | Thermopolis, WY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sublette County School District 1 | Pinedale, WY | $39,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Downtown Clinic | Laramie, WY | $37,026 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Goshen Help | Torrington, WY | $35,634 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Laramie Interfaith | Laramie, WY | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Wyoming Health Resources Network Inc | Cheyenne, WY | $25,325 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Albany County Government | Laramie, WY | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Banner Health Foundation Platte County Memorial Hospital | Phoenix, AZ | $22,783 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Banner Health Foundation Community Hospital Torrington | Phoenix, AZ | $19,855 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Services Network of Wyoming | Sheridan, WY | $19,291 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Crisis Prevention and Response Center Inc | Worland, WY | $17,005 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Teton County School District 1 | Jackson, WY | $7,375 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Health Center of Central Wyoming Inc | Casper, WY | $5,295 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
12 of 44 (27%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 44 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 15 | $1,121,581 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 43 | $4,625,069 | $60,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
92% of its giving went to organizations in Wyoming. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Wyoming.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Western States Learning Corporation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 33 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 10 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 822 W 23RD St, Cheyenne, WY, 82001.
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