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Wyoming Humanities Council

Inviting Wyoming to explore the ideas and stories that shape us.

$191k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.7MEducation$66kAnimals$30kCivil Rights$28kEnvironment$28kPhilanthropy$15kScience & Tech$12kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $110k
$5,562
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Central Wyoming College Foundation$15,000
Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum$12,000
Uprising$12,000
Alliance for Historic Wyoming$10,870
Wyoming Writers Inc$10,000
TVGals Inc$10,000
Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum$10,000
Jackson Hole Book Festival$10,000
Crossing The Threshold LLC$10,000
Native Memory Project$10,000
Casper College Humanities Festival$9,759
Arts & Humanities Trapper Creek Workshop and Lecture Series$9,088
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation$8,874
Natrona County Public Library$7,000
Crazy Woman Creek Press$5,562
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 44% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%Wild Excellence Films: $10k → 11%INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%TVGals Inc: $20k → 16%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES: $10k → 14%New Moon Productions: $10k → 17%UINTA COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $13k → 5%Teton Gravity Research: $12k → 5%SUBLETTE CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14k → 8%Lincoln County Library Foundation: $10k → 8%GATCHELL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $14k → 9%Meeteetse Museum District: $26k → 11%Wyoming Symphony Orchestra: $20k → 11%WASHAKIE MUSEUM: $14k → 11%Converse County Library: $20k → 12%Wyoming State Historical Society: $10k → 12%Burning Torch Productions: $22k → 12%WYOMING DINOSAUR MUSEUM: $14k → 13%TVGals Inc: $10k → 17%Eastern Shoshone Cultural Center: $10k → 17%UINTA COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%Jackson Hole Book Festival: $10k → 5%Pinedale Fine Arts Council Inc: $10k → 8%Johnson County Library: $10k → 9%Rockpile Museum Association: $12k → 9%WYOMING EQUALITY: $20k → 10%WYOMING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 11%SHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $24k → 10%CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUSEUM: $14k → 10%Wyoming Symphony Orchestra: $12k → 11%SHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $14k → 10%CHEYENNE DEPOT MUSEUM: $14k → 10%Carbon County Library System: $45k → 12%Sweetwater County Library System: $15k → 12%Women in the Wilderness LLC: $20k → 17%DANCER'S WORKSHOP: $20k → 5%Uprising: $12k → 10%BOULDER COMMUNITY MEDIA: $12k → 10%Central Wyoming College Foundation-Jackson: $17k → 5%Central Wyoming College Foundation: $15k → 5%JACKSON HOLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14k → 5%Albany County Public Library Foundation: $18k → 17%Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum: $12k → 5%Relative Theatrics: $16k → 17%Access The World with World Languages And Cultures: $15k → 17%Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation: $37k → 11%WyomingPBS Foundation: $20k → 17%Alliance for Historic Wyoming: $12k → 17%Alliance for Historic Wyoming: $11k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 41 repeat orgs$833k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
85

Total granted

$1.0M
$800k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+6%

Still filing today

68%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HM
    HEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +244%
  • WP
    WYOMING PBS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +69%
  • CF
    CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUSEUM
    4× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • CC
    Carbon County Library System
    one grant, 2022 · $45k
  • CC
    Converse County Library
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • TI
    TVGals Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Wind River Valley Artist Guild
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2
Wyoming Wildlife Advocates

To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.

Animals
3
Boundary County Historical Society Inc

Museum

Arts & Culture
4
The Michael Murphey Western Institute in
Arts & Culture
5
Big Horn Basin Dinosaur and Geoscience Museum

The mission statement of big horn basin dinosaur and geoscience museum is to obtain and house museum-quality casts of some of the world's most iconic dinosaurs and mariene reptiles that have been found in big horn county to entertain,…

Arts & Culture
6
National Pronghorn Interpretive and Visitors Center

Educating the public about the biology, habitat and welfare of the Pronghorn.

Arts & Culture
7
Albany County Conservancy

To protect, preserve, promote the environmental, wildlife, ecological, historical treasure of southeast wyoming

Environment
8
Weston County Library Foundation

To enhance the quality of public library services to weston county, wy by securing resources to support library programs and projects not normally met by public funding.

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9
Wyandotte County Historical Society and Museum

To identify, collect, preserve, interpret, and disseminate material and information pertaining to wyandotte county history in order to assist the public in understanding, appreciating and assisting in the preservation of the heritage of…

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10
Museum of Western Colorado Inc

The museum of western colorado is an educational institution that collects, preserves, and interprets artifacts, specimens, and information concerning the cultural and natural history of western colorado and the contiguous area. we enhance…

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of the Old West

Museum of the old west exists to conserve artifacts and buildings which represent the story of wyoming during our country's westward expansion from the fur trade era to the early 1900s. we educate the nearly 25,000 visitors per season on…

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12
National Historic Trails Center Foundation Inc

Historic preservation

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washakie Museum and the most unlike its peers is Wyoming Sheep Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRural Healthcare ProvidersSenior Services & SupportYouth Ice Sports ProgramsHunting and Outdoor Recreat…Rodeo & Western EventsProfessional Trade Associat…Community Development Found…Fraternal Service Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%7%<5yr13%16%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr13%19%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr15%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%4%<5yr13%15%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr13%21%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr15%16%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/135
the rest of the field
11%
422/3,995

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 136 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
80/86
Grantees still filing
55/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING — $94,148 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WYOMINGWyoming Symphony Orchestra Inc — $46,750 · OtherCarbon County Library System — $44,940 · OtherJACKSON HOLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM — $40,700 · OtherMeeteetse Museum District — $34,882 · Other+72 more — $739,241 · Other+72 moreHEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION — $54,813 · Arts & CultureHEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATIONWYOMING PBS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureWYOMING PBS FOUNDATIONCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUSEUM — $47,641 · Arts & CultureCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUS…RELATIVE THEATRICS — $28,000 · Arts & CultureWYOMING STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $25,500 · Arts & CultureCHEYENNE DEPOT MUSEUM INC — $25,500 · Arts & CultureBuffalo Bill Memorial Association — $20,000 · Arts & CultureDANCERS WORKSHOP — $19,750 · Arts & Culture+33 more — $315,748 · Arts & Culture+33 moreALLIANCE FOR HISTORIC WYOMING INC — $46,116 · EnvironmentSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $31,800 · EnvironmentTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC — $8,950 · EnvironmentWYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL — $6,550 · EnvironmentUINTA COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $22,758 · EducationCASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $19,759 · EducationALBANY CO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $17,500 · EducationLANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationLincoln County Library Foundation Inc — $10,000 · EducationJACKSON HOLE WRITERS — $6,500 · Education+1 more — $2,000 · EducationUNITED GAYS & LESBIANS OF WYOMING — $36,005 · Recreation & SportsFort Phil Kearny Bozeman Trail Association — $8,800 · Recreation & SportsWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $29,500 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE ALBANY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $7,500 · PhilanthropyTROUT UNLIMITED JACKSON HOLE 051 — $12,500 · AnimalsWYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · AnimalsWYOMING WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $6,800 · Animals
Other$1,000,661Arts & Culture$586,952Environment$93,416Education$88,517Recreation & Sports$44,805Philanthropy$37,000Animals$29,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATION — $54,813 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWYOMING PBS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS OLD WEST MUSEUM — $47,641 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWyoming Symphony Orchestra Inc — $46,750 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR HISTORIC WYOMING INC — $46,116 over 5y, 14% of budgetJACKSON HOLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM — $40,700 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED GAYS & LESBIANS OF WYOMING — $36,005 over 3y, 13% of budgetCENTRAL WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHERIDAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $31,800 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetWYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $29,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRELATIVE THEATRICS — $28,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetWYOMING STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $25,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCHEYENNE DEPOT MUSEUM INC — $25,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetUINTA COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $22,758 over 2y, 32% of budgetBuffalo Bill Memorial Association — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASPER COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $19,759 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDANCERS WORKSHOP — $19,750 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUPRISING — $18,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJackson Hole Public Art — $17,750 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetALBANY CO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSHERIDAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $16,500 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetWYOMING WRITERS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetJACKSON HOLE BOOK FESTIVAL — $15,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHARRY JACKSON MUSEUM — $14,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetWYOMING DINOSAUR CENTER INC — $13,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetROCKPILE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $13,500 over 2y, 22% of budgetSHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSUBLETTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN — $13,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWASHAKIE MUSEUM — $13,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED JACKSON HOLE 051 — $12,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetLARAMIE PUBLIC ART COALITION — $12,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetCASPER ARTISTS GUILD — $11,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLARAMIE PLAINS CIVIC CENTER INC — $11,060 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL BIGHORN SHEEP CENTER INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPINEDALE FINE ARTS COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUM — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWYOMING NATIONAL GUARD HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetLincoln County Library Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWind River Community Alliance — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS ON DEVE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOWBOY STATE DAILY — $9,750 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR FREEDOM RESTORATION AND JUSTICE INC — $9,750 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHEYENNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $9,750 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY — $9,750 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWyoming Star Gazing — $9,750 over 1y, 2.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Wyoming Community Fou…Wyoming Assn of Non P…Community Foundation …The John P Ellbogen F…Hughes Charitable Fou…Pacificorp Foundation…The Musser FundFirst Interstate Banc…Lander Community Foun…Lightner Sams Foundat…Homer A Scott & Mildr…The Andrew Allen Char…
Wyoming Community FoundationWY90.5× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wyoming Community Foundation · Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The John P Ellbogen Foundation · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · The Musser Fund · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Lander Community Foundation · Lightner Sams Foundation of Wyoming · Homer A Scott & Mildred S Scott Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Wyoming Humanities Council funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 136 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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