Wyoming · Nonprofit
LANDER ART CENTER
LANDER ART CENTER (Wyoming) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,499 to it, the largest being LANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($107,760). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $184k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $128k
What Lander Art Center does
Mission
Our mission is to foster a strong arts community in fremont county by providing arts learning opportunities and exhibition experiences for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Lander Art Center hosted 8 gallery exhibitions and 2 large-scale art markets this year, creating direct sales opportunities for over 160 local and regional artists. These events, including our annual member's show, are free to the public and provide a rare venue in our rural area for artists to display and sell their work. By managing these markets and gallery shows, we help emerging and professional artist turn their craft into a viable local business while giving the community free access to high-quality art.
$42,614 spent35% of program spendingOur year-round education program held over 75 unique classes for youth and adults, focusing on keeping costs as low as possible for fremont county residents. In 2025, we facilitated roughly 3,500 individual classroom and studio engagements. These repeated interactions through scheduled workshops and drop-in sessions ensure that high-quality arts instruction is a consistent resource throughout the year.
$41,539 spent34% of program spendingThe Lander Art Center operates a communal clay studio equipped with a kiln and professional tools that would be too expensive for most individual artists to own. This year, we supported 25 independent shelf renters and roughly 20 other regular artists who use the space to create their work. The studio acts as a collaborative hub where artists share equipment and expertise, making it possible for local potters to maintain their practice in a supportive environment.
$38,509 spent31% of program spendingBeyond our own programming, we worked to strengthen the local arts scene by supporting 3 external art markets. We provided the tools, planning help, and equipment necessary to make these community events successful, extending our reach beyond the walls of the art center
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $122,662.
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 $54k to $128k (+136%).
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.
59% of LANDER ART CENTER’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. 4 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.
Board chair
Laura Koch
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $30k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 LANDER ART CENTER’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
LANDER ART CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
57% 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 LANDER ART CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 63% · 2020 73% · 2021 71% · 2022 40% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of LANDER ART CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
54% of LANDER ART CENTER'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 $93k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Wyoming, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $108k 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
LANDER ART CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LANDER ART CENTER
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LANDER ART CENTER?
- LANDER ART CENTER (Wyoming) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,499 to it, the largest being LANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($107,760). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LANDER ART CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $200,499 in grants to LANDER ART CENTER, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LANDER ART CENTER?
- LANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $107,760 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANDER ART CENTER 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 8 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