Nevada · Nonprofit
COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM
COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM (Nevada) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,885 to it, the largest being CHARLIE RUSSELL RIDERS FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $46k
- Net assets
- $647k
What Cowboy Arts & Gear Museum does
Mission
The preservation and education of the heritage and crafts of the cowboys in the american west.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To preserve the heritage, culture, and craftsmanship of the cowboys of the american west by recreating displays of a 1915 saddle shop with donated and loaned items.
$60,342 spent100% of program spendingThe museum will fundraise by selling small memorabilia and holding other events in the community.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $60,342.
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 2018 to 2019, from $519k to $1.2M (+131%).
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: 2023 9% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $40k.
From the IRS filings of COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM’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
COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
87% 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 COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 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
COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM: 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 COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM?
- COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM (Nevada) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,885 to it, the largest being CHARLIE RUSSELL RIDERS FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $45,885 in grants to COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM?
- CHARLIE RUSSELL RIDERS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COWBOY ARTS & GEAR MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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