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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 22-2620092

Socrates Foundation

A private foundation in Wheatland, WY. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 2 grants and $75,000 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Directors Socrates Foundation
3441 Hwy 34
Wheatland, WY 82201
(303) 974-5332
Form and materials
Request letter
Deadlines
None
Restrictions
None

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $75,000

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $1,090,162

  • Tax year 2024

    $101,750

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $1,075,383

  • Tax year 2023

    $15,000

    Grants listed
    1
    Assets, end of year
    $1,089,902

  • Tax year 2022

    $10,250

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $1,094,298

  • Tax year 2021

    $96,000

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $1,022,374

  • Tax year 2020

    $87,500

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $994,691

  • Tax year 2019

    $65,000

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $956,073

  • Tax year 2018

    $78,610

    Grants listed
    7
    Assets, end of year
    $975,253

Grants paid in 2025

2 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Edible Prairie ProjectGillette, WY

    Program project support

    $40,000
  2. Science KidsSheridan, WY

    Program project support

    $35,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Food and agriculture1 grant $40,000100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Wyoming2 grants $75,000

Officers, directors and trustees

8 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Ralph R Whitney JrDIRECTOR Hours 5Pay $2,000
  • Brian WhitneyDIRECTOR Hours 5Pay $2,000
  • Paula SkrotzkiDIRECTOR Hours 5Pay $2,000
  • Lynne WhitneyDIRECTOR Hours 5Pay $2,000
  • Jane BakerSECRETARY Hours 5Pay $2,000
  • Anna WhitneyDIRECTOR Hours 5Pay $2,000
  • Erich SkrotzkiDIRECTOR Hours 5Pay $2,000
  • Whitney HamlinDIRECTOR Hours 5Pay $2,000

The return

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