Wyoming · Nonprofit
COWBOY STATE DAILY
COWBOY STATE DAILY (Wyoming) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,750 to it, the largest being Hughes Charitable Foundation ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $0
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $36k
What Cowboy State Daily does
Mission
Cowboy State Daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Cowboy State Daily offers daily, on-the-go access to stories that keep wyoming people informed. We are here to share wyoming stories. Important, engaging and insightful stories that impact the lives of wyoming's hard-working-and-playing, civic-minded citizens.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $282k to $80k (−72%).
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: 2020 26% · 2021 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of COWBOY STATE DAILY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of COWBOY STATE DAILY’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 STATE DAILY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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 COWBOY STATE DAILY's grant income comes from Wyoming funders.
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 STATE DAILY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like COWBOY STATE DAILY
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.
Public support
48%
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 STATE DAILY: 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 STATE DAILY?
- COWBOY STATE DAILY (Wyoming) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,750 to it, the largest being Hughes Charitable Foundation ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COWBOY STATE DAILY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $59,750 in grants to COWBOY STATE DAILY.
- Who is the largest funder of COWBOY STATE DAILY?
- Hughes Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COWBOY STATE DAILY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), 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