Wyoming · Public charity
Wyoming Humanities Council
Inviting Wyoming to explore the ideas and stories that shape us.
- $191k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,562
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Wyoming Humanities Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $166k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $249k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $96k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $538k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $180k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $466k | 93% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $67k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $78k | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Arts & Culture$1.7MEducation$66kAnimals$30kCivil Rights$28kEnvironment$28kPhilanthropy$15kScience & Tech$12kHealth$10kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
WI
NY
WY
PA
CA
KS
NC
DC
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Wyoming | $94,148 | 6 | n/a |
| Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation | $54,813 | 3 | 1% |
| Wyoming Pbs Foundation | $50,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum | $47,641 | 4 | 1% |
| Wyoming Symphony Orchestra Inc | $46,750 | 3 | 4% |
| Alliance for Historic Wyoming Inc | $46,116 | 5 | 14% |
| Carbon County Library System | $44,940 | 1 | n/a |
| Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum | $40,700 | 4 | 1% |
| United Gays & Lesbians of Wyoming | $36,005 | 3 | 13% |
| Meeteetse Museum District | $34,882 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Wyoming | $94,148 | 6 | n/a |
| Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation | $54,813 | 3 | 1% |
| Wyoming Pbs Foundation | $50,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum | $47,641 | 4 | 1% |
| Wyoming Symphony Orchestra Inc | $46,750 | 3 | 4% |
| Alliance for Historic Wyoming Inc | $46,116 | 5 | 14% |
| Carbon County Library System | $44,940 | 1 | n/a |
| Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum | $40,700 | 4 | 1% |
| United Gays & Lesbians of Wyoming | $36,005 | 3 | 13% |
| Meeteetse Museum District | $34,882 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Wyoming College Foundation | $32,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sheridan Community Land Trust | $31,800 | 3 | 4% |
| Wyoming Game & Fish Department | $28,176 | 3 | n/a |
| Relative Theatrics | $28,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Cheyenne Depot Museum Inc | $25,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Wyoming State Historical Society | $25,500 | 3 | 5% |
| Burning Torch Productions | $23,710 | 2 | n/a |
| Natrona County Public Library | $23,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Uinta County Library Foundation Inc | $22,758 | 2 | 32% |
| Buffalo Bill Memorial Association | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| TVGals Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hot Springs Greater Learning Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Converse County Library | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Women in the Wilderness LLC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Casper College Foundation | $19,759 | 2 | 0% |
| Dancers Workshop | $19,750 | 1 | 1% |
| Uprising | $18,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Jackson Hole Public Art | $17,750 | 2 | 2% |
| Albany Co Public Library Foundation | $17,500 | 1 | 4% |
| B&GC of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe | $17,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Sheridan County Historical Society | $16,500 | 2 | 6% |
| Access the World With World Languages and Cultures | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sweetwater County Library System | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wyoming Writers Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Jackson Hole Book Festival | $15,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Harry Jackson Museum | $14,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Wyoming Dinosaur Center Inc | $13,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Sublette County Historical Society Museum of the Mountain Man | $13,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Sheridan County Library Foundation | $13,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Gatchell Museum Association Inc | $13,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Washakie Museum | $13,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Rockpile Museum Association | $13,500 | 2 | 22% |
| Wyoming Cowboy Hall of Fame | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Laramie County Library System | $12,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Trout Unlimited Jackson Hole 051 | $12,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Teton Gravity Research | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boulder Community Media | $12,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Content Lab LLC | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Laramie Public Art Coalition | $12,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Casper Artists Guild | $11,500 | 2 | 3% |
| City of Torrington | $11,175 | 2 | n/a |
| Laramie Plains Civic Center Inc | $11,060 | 2 | 1% |
| National Bighorn Sheep Center Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Queens Players Theatre Troupe | $10,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Wyoming State Museum Volunteers Inc | $10,511 | 2 | n/a |
| New Moon Productions | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Albany County Public Library | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jackson Hole United | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Native Memory Project | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Goshen County Library | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pinedale Fine Arts Council Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Sublette County Library System | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Association of Councils on Deve | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wyoming Wilderness Association | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Wyoming National Guard Historical Society | $10,000 | 1 | 78% |
| Lander Community FoundationCrossing The Threshold LLC | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Northwest College | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nicolaysen Art Museum | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wind River Community Alliance | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Wild Excellence Films | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sheridan Newspapers Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lincoln County Library Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Washakie County Library System | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fremont County Library System | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Johnson County Library | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sheridan County Travel and Tourism | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| International Documentary Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Forward Wyoming | $9,999 | 1 | n/a |
| Wyoming Star Gazing | $9,750 | 1 | 3% |
| Off Square Theatre Company | $9,750 | 1 | 2% |
| Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra | $9,750 | 1 | 2% |
| Cheyenne Little Theatre Players | $9,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Cowboy State Daily | $9,750 | 1 | 2% |
| The Science Zone | $9,750 | 1 | 6% |
| Alliance for Freedom Restoration and Justice Inc | $9,750 | 1 | 2% |
| Casper Pride | $9,160 | 1 | 4% |
| Bighorn County Citizens for Economic Development | $9,088 | 1 | n/a |
| Saratoga Historical & Cultural Assoc | $9,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Wyoming Frontier Museum | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wright Centennial Museum | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Teton Science Schools Inc | $8,950 | 1 | 0% |
| Fort Phil Kearny Bozeman Trail Association | $8,800 | 1 | 12% |
| By Western Hands | $8,775 | 1 | 2% |
| True Troupe | $8,350 | 1 | n/a |
| Moorcroft Historical Society | $8,340 | 1 | n/a |
| Wyoming Women's Business Center | $8,219 | 1 | 1% |
| Hot Springs County Museum & Cultural Center | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Dubois Museum Wind River Historical Center | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Grand Encampment Museum Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Lander Search and Rescue | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Lander Childrens Museum | $7,500 | 1 | 6% |
| The Ernest Hemingway Foundation Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 7% |
| Friends of the Albany County Public Library | $7,500 | 1 | 12% |
| Jackson Wild | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wyoming Wildlife Federation | $6,800 | 2 | 1% |
| Wyoming Outdoor Council | $6,550 | 1 | 0% |
| Lander Art Center | $6,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Park County Art Council | $6,500 | 1 | 11% |
| Jackson Hole Writers | $6,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Cody Country Art League | $6,175 | 1 | 3% |
| Tandem Productions | $6,000 | 1 | 11% |
| The Table | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Orphan Train Complex Inc | $5,575 | 1 | 4% |
| Crazy Woman Creek Press | $5,562 | 1 | n/a |
| International Days Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wyoming Arts Alliance | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Homestead Foundation Inc | $4,228 | 1 | n/a |
| Sweetwater County Museum Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Wyoming Historical Society Group Return | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sankofa African Heritage Awareness Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Museum of the Occidental Hotel | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Center for the Arts | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Wyoming Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wyoming Sheep Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Big Horn City Historical Society | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| InterConnections 21 | $2,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Wyoming State Historical Society | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| National Mall and Memorial Parks | $1,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Eastern Shoshone Cultural Center | $1,380 | 1 | n/a |
| Park County Library Foundation | $1,333 | 1 | 1% |
| Riverton Peace Mission | $873 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Wyoming Humanities Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 72.
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
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.
About Wyoming Humanities Council
- How much does Wyoming Humanities Council give?
- Wyoming Humanities Council reported 30 grants totaling $190,937 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wyoming Humanities Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (89%), Education (4%), Animals (2%).
- Who are Wyoming Humanities Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: University of Wyoming ($94k), Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation ($55k), Wyoming Pbs Foundation ($50k).
- Does Wyoming Humanities Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wyoming Humanities Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wyoming Community Foundation, Wyoming Assn of Non Profit Organizations dba Wyoming Nonprofit Network, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole.
- Where is Wyoming Humanities Council based?
- Wyoming Humanities Council is based in WY.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home