Wyoming · Nonprofit
Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc
Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc (Wyoming) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,178,020 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ($1,187,483). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc does
Mission
To ignite every kid's potential through creativity, learning and play.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
PRE KINDERGARTEN AND PUBLIC PROGRAMMING FOR TETON COUNTY RESIDENTS AND VISITORS: With over 5000 visits to the Museum annually, we provide a physical space with interactive exhibits and experiences for children and their caregivers to play and learn. Our patron programs offer opportunities to explore through creative and tactile experiences. Preschool program partnerships serve underserved populations. These programs encourage skill development necessary for kindergarten success.
$132,159 spent$49,472 earned by the program34% of program spendingELEMENTARY SCHOOL PROGRAMS:We partner with Teton County School District #1 to offer integrated STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) programming for all K-5th grade students, approximately 1,500/year. Designed in collaboration with classroom teachers, these exploratory programs directly support the current curricular units in the classroom. We coordinate programs across six Fridays a year for 30% of the public school students while teachers are participating in professional development.
$126,733 spent$24,080 earned by the program33% of program spendingAFTERSCHOOL AND SUMMER PROGRAMS: We offer a variety of afterschool and summer programming for children in K-5th grade, directly supporting the growing community need for enriching outofschool programming. Our thematic programs engage children in aspects of arts, sciences, literature and design and encourage creativity and independent thinking. We serve approximately 200 working families through these offerings.
$128,021 spent$100,744 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $386,913.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.9M to $3.3M (+76%).
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: 2019 14% · 2024 4% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Ethan Lobdell
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $11k → $555k.
7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 Jackson Hole Childrens Museum 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
Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 67% · 2019 79% · 2020 65% · 2021 52% · 2022 65% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.
“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
28% of Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
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
69% of Jackson Hole Childrens Museum 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 $667k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from funders outside Wyoming, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$50k
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 Jackson Hole Childrens Museum 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
42% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Jackson Hole Childrens Museum 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 Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc?
- Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc (Wyoming) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,178,020 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ($1,187,483). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,178,020 in grants to Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Jackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE is the largest funder on record, with $1,187,483 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Jackson Hole Childrens Museum 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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