Wyoming · Nonprofit
ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS
ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS (Wyoming) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $196 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($196). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $196
- Net assets
- $234k
What Arts Along the Bighorns does
Mission
Arts Along the Bighorns operates the Cowboy Carousel Center to provide community-based arts, culture, and educational programs for all ages. The organization offers public and private event space, STEAM Saturday learning activities, youth theater productions, and creative workshops that support local arts engagement. Its purpose is to strengthen community connections, expand access to arts and education, and preserve cultural heritage in Johnson County.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Arts Along The Bighorns provides community-based arts and educational programs for children and families. In 2025, the Center offered Children's Theater with approximately 50 youth participating in each of three productions, gaining experience in acting, teamwork, and technical theater. The Center also hosted 12 STEAM Saturday sessions, serving an estimated 40 families per event with hands-on science, technology, engineering, arts, and math activities. Hundreds of families participated in Discovery Center programs throughout the year, supporting inclusive arts education and creative learning in Johnson County.
$44,948 spent62% of program spendingArts Along the Bighorns operates the Cowboy Carousel Center as an affordable venue for public and private community events. In 2025, the Center hosted more than 48 private rentals, including weddings, receptions, celebrations, and family gatherings, with typical attendance exceeding 100 people per event. These events provide an important community resource, support local cultural engagement, and help sustain the Center's arts and educational programming.
$27,491 spent38% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $72,439.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $467k to $441k (−5%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
41% of ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Arnette Tiller
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $75 → $35.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS's revenue fell 25% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS
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In Wyoming
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS?
- ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS (Wyoming) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $196 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($196). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $196 in grants to ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $196 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS ALONG THE BIGHORNS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wyoming. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing