Wyoming · Nonprofit
ARTS CHEYENNE
ARTS CHEYENNE (Wyoming) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,367 to it, the largest being WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 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
- $170k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $49k
What Arts Cheyenne does
Mission
Arts Cheyenne is the community's official local arts agency, promoting artists and their work, assising other cultural organizations with promotion and planning, and managing cheyenne's public art program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arts Cheyenne presents is Arts Cheyenne's annual music series featuring performances by independent musicians from throughout the region.
$82,185 spent$24,570 earned by the program71% of program spendingThe cheyenne creativity center is a space for visual and performing artists to gather, learn, and create together in a collaborative environment. The center is a project for Arts Cheyenne to test the community's response and need for an arts center, building up awareness, capacity, and funding for a permanent center in the future.
$16,398 spent$7,923 earned by the program14% of program spendingThrough an mou with the city of cheyenne, Arts Cheyenne manages the community's art in public places program, designed to install new public art and maintain existing public art installations.
$11,072 spent10% of program spendingArts Cheyenne initiated the cheyenne arthaus, a mobile art gallery and education center built on a tiny house trailer platform.
$2,776 spent$75 earned by the program2% of program spendingArtwalk is the community's monthly celebration of artists and their work. Businesses, restaurants and other places showcase a local or regional visual artist or musician, accompanied by light food and beverages.
$1,848 spent$4,703 earned by the program2% of program spendingArts & aviation center is a program to rennovate and repurpose the historic 1960 cheyenne airport terminal into an economically viable and self-sustaining hub for arts, culture, and aviation history.
$746 spent$3,478 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $115,025.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $110k to $28k (−75%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 88% · 2022 9% · 2023 26% · 2024 28% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of ARTS CHEYENNE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Desiree Brothe
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $35 → $41.
2 of 2 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 CHEYENNE’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.
How concentrated its funding is
ARTS CHEYENNE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARTS CHEYENNE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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 CHEYENNE'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. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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 CHEYENNE has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ARTS CHEYENNE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$150k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ARTS CHEYENNE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Wyoming
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS CHEYENNE: 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 CHEYENNE?
- ARTS CHEYENNE (Wyoming) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,367 to it, the largest being WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 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 CHEYENNE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,367 in grants to ARTS CHEYENNE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS CHEYENNE?
- WYOMING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS CHEYENNE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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