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Cheyenne Frontier Days Inc

While preserving more than a century of western heritage, cheyenne frontier days will strive to continually explore and implement new endeavors that provide an unforgettable and unique experience to its guests.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$345kRecreation & Sports$133kPhilanthropy$23kFood & Nutrition$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kHealth$5kEducation$5kYouth Development$5k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $120,256, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,217,592 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,097,336 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$12,756
Median grant
1
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHEYENNE TENNIS ASSOCIATION$55,000
CHEYENNE CARRIAGE COLLECTION$30,000
LARAMIE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1 LUNCH PROGRAM$12,756
CFD OLD WEST MUSEUM$12,500
JOHNSON COUNTY FIRE RELIEF FUND$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JUSTIN COWBOY CRISIS FUND: $15k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$355k · 4 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$355k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-38%
+42%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $219k · revenue -55% · 66% of their budget
  • CF
    CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUSEUM
    7× · 2018–2024 · $91k · revenue +43%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LARAMIE COUNTY
    4× · 2018–2023 · $23k · revenue -38%

Funded once

  • TF
    TEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +42%
  • JC
    Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -66%
  • LC
    LARAMIE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wild West Arena Foundation

The wild west arena foundation is dedicated to the preservation and improvement of the wild west arena that houses nebraskaland days and increase the knowledge of the general public of the history of buffalo bill cody's wild west show and…

Arts & Culture
2
Cowboy State Daily

Cowboy state daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.

Arts & Culture
3
Wyoming State Fair Foundation

To ensure that the Wyoming State Fair serves as a vibrant celebration of our states agriculture, youth, education, heritage, and industry, while evolving to meet the needs of future generations. WSFF is the fundraising arm of the WSF,…

Recreation & Sports
4
Cheyenne Frontier Days Memorial Foundation

Identify individuals who have provided volunteer service to cheyenne frontier days and then award them with financial assistance to attend post-secondary education at the institutions of their choice; based upon years of service and…

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5
Montana Pro Rodeo Hall and Wall of Fame

To honor montana professional rodeo cowboys and cowgirls who exemplify montana western heritage.

Arts & Culture
6
Cowboy Artists of America Joe Beeler Foundation

Dedicated to the development and education of artists in the traditions of the Cowboy Artists of America preserving western heritage through art and experience.

Education
7
Downtown Development Foundation

Funding for cheyenne dda

Community Improvement
8
Cody Stampede Foundation Inc

The cody stampede foundation was established to provide a variety of

Recreation & Sports
9
National Intercollegiate Rodeo Foundation
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10
Kootenai Classic Livestock Show
Food & Nutrition
11
Cowboy Hall of Fame Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc

To support the oklahoma city community foundation by supporting the national cowboy and western heritage museum.

Arts & Culture
12
Casey Tibbs Foundation

Preserve rodeo heritage in south dakota

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cheyenne Frontier Days Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Assn of State Departments of Agriculture Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC: $219,082 · Arts & CultureCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INCCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUSEUM: $91,162 · Arts & CultureCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUSEUMCHEYENNE CARRIAGE COLLECTION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCHEYENNE CARRIAGE COLLECTIONCHEYENNE TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $55,000 · OtherCHEYENNE TENNIS ASSOCIAT…UNITED WAY OF LARAMIE COUNTY: $23,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF LARAMIE CO…LARAMIE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT #1: $21,256 · OtherLARAMIE COUNTY SCHOOL DI…LARAMIE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6,500 · OtherLARAMIE COUNTY COMMUNITY…NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · OtherVISIT CHEYENNE: $5,000 · OtherTEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTEAMMATES F…Jae Foundation Inc: $5,400 · PhilanthropyJae Foundat…Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterASK After School for Kids: $5,000 · EducationDISCOVER CHEYENNE INC: $5,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$340,244Other$116,756Philanthropy$55,400Human Services$15,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Education$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC: $219,082 over 3y, 66% of budgetCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUSEUM: $91,162 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTEAMMATES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHEYENNE CARRIAGE COLLECTION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LARAMIE COUNTY: $23,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetJustin Cowboy Crisis Fund Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE RODEO ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJae Foundation Inc: $5,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASK After School for Kids: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDISCOVER CHEYENNE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cheyenne Frontier Days Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cheyenne Frontier Days Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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