Wyoming · Nonprofit
CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC
CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC (Wyoming) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,000 to it, the largest being Hughes Charitable Foundation ($280,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $682k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $458k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Cheyenne Frontier Days Foundation Inc does
Mission
To raise, receive, and manage private and/or public gifts to maximize support for new and ongoing educational and philanthropic activities of cheyenne frontier days, inc.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To support cheyenne frontier days, inc.
$384,240 spentof which $384,240 as grants$3,840 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $384,240.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $1.8M (+17%).
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.
96% of CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Rick Schum
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $28k → $55k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $219k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cheyenne Frontier Days Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC’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
CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
33% 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 CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 68% · 2022 73% — diversifying over time.
“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
93% of CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Wyoming funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153k 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
CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cheyenne Frontier Days Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC: 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 CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC?
- CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC (Wyoming) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $458,000 to it, the largest being Hughes Charitable Foundation ($280,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $458,000 in grants to CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC?
- Hughes Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHEYENNE FRONTIER DAYS FOUNDATION INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing