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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 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 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
TVGals Inc$10,000
Crossing The Threshold LLC$10,000
Native Memory Project$10,000
Jackson Hole Book Festival$10,000
Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum$10,000
Wyoming Writers Inc$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

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:

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

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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%
+8%

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
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

  • 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
  • TI
    TVGals Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • CC
    Converse County Library
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washakie Museum; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/86
Grantees still filing
55/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & CultureCHEYENNE DEPOT MUSEUM INC: $25,500 · Arts & CultureWYOMING STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $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 · EducationLincoln County Library Foundation Inc: $10,000 · EducationLANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCHEYENNE DEPOT MUSEUM INC: $25,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWYOMING STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,500 over 3y, 4.5% 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 budgetSUBLETTE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN: $13,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSHERIDAN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWASHAKIE MUSEUM: $13,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetROCKPILE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $13,500 over 2y, 22% 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 budgetPINEDALE FINE ARTS COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COUNCILS ON DEVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWYOMING NATIONAL GUARD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetNICOLAYSEN ART MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWind River Community Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetLincoln County Library Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetJackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWyoming Star Gazing: $9,750 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetOFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY: $9,750 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCHEYENNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $9,750 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOWBOY STATE DAILY: $9,750 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE SCIENCE ZONE: $9,750 over 1y, 6.4% 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 tightly interlocked group: 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

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 Wyoming Humanities Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wyoming Humanities Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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 136 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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