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DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC

DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC (Wyoming) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $361,550 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$554k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$362k
Net assets
$165k
4/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Discover Cheyenne Inc does

Mission

Develop and promote tourism within laramie county, wyoming.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Discover cheyenne helps the city's bronze project as part of downtown art and beautification. Some of the more notable bronzes this year were for vernon baker and barney ford.

    $399,053 spent
    82% of program spending
  2. The water tank project - a collaborative effort to create iconic art and cultural landmarks in the city featuring water towers atop storey boulevard, visible from many vantage points throughout cheyenne. One tank is already completed and the second has nearly enough funds to begin.

    $64,193 spent
    13% of program spending
  3. Hell on wheels royalty - hell on wheels rodeo series enhanced the event by adding a rodeo royalty program, providing a leadership program for young ladies while also providing new ways to market the rodeo. Rodeo queens fundraise for their equipment (I.e., saddle, chaps, hats), with the leftover going to a scholarship for them at the end of the program.

    $4,000 spentof which $4,000 as grants
    1% of program spending
  4. Cheyenne restaurant week- businesses pledged to donate to the wy hunger initiative from their restaurant week proceeds. Discover cheyenne collected the funds to help those in need in cheyenne and laramie county through the first lady's hunger initiative. Wreath donations- a "corridor of holiday spirit" from the capitol to the depot was adorned by wreaths with personalized messages/dedications to loved ones here and passed, adding to the festive appearance of cheyenne's downtown. This has become an annual tradition for some. Event support

    $20,854 spent
    4% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $488,100.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($164k) Expenses 100 ($154k) Net assets 100 ($92k)2019 Revenue 186 ($304k) Expenses 62 ($96k) Net assets 327 ($300k)2020 Revenue 9 ($15k) Expenses 7 ($11k) Net assets 331 ($304k)2021 Revenue 8 ($14k) Expenses 175 ($268k) Net assets 54 ($50k)2022 Revenue 454 ($744k) Expenses 371 ($570k) Net assets 243 ($223k)2023 Revenue 215 ($353k) Expenses 290 ($445k) Net assets 142 ($131k)2024 Revenue 321 ($527k) Expenses 363 ($558k) Net assets 108 ($99k)2025 Revenue 338 ($554k) Expenses 318 ($488k) Net assets 180 ($165k)
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Revenue (338)Expenses (318)Net assets (180)Peer revenue range

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 $304k to $50k (−84%).

$92k
$300k
$304k
$50k
$223k
$134k
$103k
$186k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
’18
$209k
’19
$4k
’20
−$255k
’21
$173k
’22
−$92k
’23
−$31k
’24
$66k
’25
4.6
months of
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed5667786
Joined·+2+2+1+0+2+0
No longer listed·120012
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $21k.

7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 DISCOVER CHEYENNE 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

DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

70% 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 DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC.

21%
largest funder
51%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 63% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 64% · 2023 71% — 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.

How long its funders stay

0% of DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

68% of DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC'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. Of the $115k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Wyoming, across 4 states.

MN
WY
CO
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’21
’23
Wyoming out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,450 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve4.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

90%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Tourism Promotion Joint Powers · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC?
DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC (Wyoming) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $361,550 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $361,550 in grants to DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DISCOVER CHEYENNE 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.

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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 13 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