Natrona Collective Health Trust

Natrona Collective Health Trust is a US private foundation based in Casper, WY.

Profile derived from the foundation's IRS Form 990-PF filings (TY2024, TY2023, TY2022) and its website, with every statement checked against those sources. Sources read on 7 October 2026.

Priority Areas

The Trust invests in the health and well-being of Natrona County residents through grantmaking, research, advocacy, community programming and capacity building. Its largest community investment is multi-year, flexible, unrestricted general operating grants for nonprofits serving Natrona County’s health needs. The grant priorities are early childhood development, preventing and mitigating adverse childhood experiences, positive childhood experiences, mental and behavioural health services, and advocacy for policies and systems that strengthen residents’ health and well-being. The Trust uses research, community data and direct engagement to identify need; it bases funding decisions on community health need, organisational capacity and alignment with its mission.

Themes

• Early childhood development
• Adverse childhood experiences
• Positive childhood experiences
• Mental and behavioral health
• Advocacy

Geographic Focus

Natrona County.

What They Don't Fund

• Individuals or fraternal organizations
• Lobbying as defined by the U.S. Internal Revenue Code (IRC), section 4945(d)(1)
• Activities supporting political candidates or voter registration drives, as defined in IRC section 4945(d)(2)
• Basic biomedical research, drug therapies or devices
• Single disease, research-oriented organizations
• Fundraising event sponsorships
• Endowments
• Legal expenses including but not limited to legal fees and costs, litigation funding or expenses, or to satisfy any portion of a judgment, settlement, or fine
• Public, private, or parochial educational institutions, including their foundations unless it is directly aligned with one of the foundation’s strategic priorities
• Capital campaigns
• National organizations without Wyoming-based board, staff, and independent financials
• Organizations whose purpose is to raise money for another nonprofit
• Religious institutions without programs and services that serve the community beyond their members
• Organizations that cannot demonstrate a benefit to the residents of Natrona County
• Organizations or projects discriminating against employees, volunteers, or clients in programme or service delivery based on race, creed, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status or other factors denying Natrona County residents’ essential humanity
• General Operating Grants only: Nonprofits currently receiving boost grants from the Trust
• Boost Grants only: those who are current general operating or advocacy grant recipients

Organisations apply through the Trust’s grant portal. New applicants register an account; returning partners use their existing login.

Deadlines: Resource grant applications launch with the spring grant cycle and remain open while designated funds are available; organisations can apply each year.

• Repeat giving: In its TY2024 filing, 92% of its grant dollars to organisations went to organisations it had also funded in its TY2022 or TY2023 filing.
• Grant size: Across its TY2022, TY2023 and TY2024 filings, half of its 208 grants to organisations were $30,000 or less.

What the foundation says:

• The Trust bases funding decisions on community health need, organisational capacity and alignment with its mission.
• The Trust assesses organisational infrastructure and whether programmes and services match its grant priority areas.
• Applicants can use the rubric to check alignment with the Trust’s goals and highlight the most important parts of their programmes in the application.