Wyoming · Nonprofit
LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC
LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC (Wyoming) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,854,944 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,845,823). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $564k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Laramie Plains Museum Association Inc does
Mission
The laramie plains museum is a historic house museum complex of the city of laramie, wyoming and surrounding area, whose mission is to preservve, restore, augment and exhibit its historic buildings, grounds and the historic collections contained therein, thereby increasing public appreciation and education about the nature of the human heritage of the area through tours, exhibitions, publications and special events.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The laramie plains museum, on the national register of historic places, is situated on a full square block in the historic district of laramie, wyoming, and consists of the restored 1892 ivinson mansion and its carriage house, the alice hardie stevens center reception hall/curatorial accessioning area, and the marshall one-room school house. The museum also owns an 1883 historic stone stable, currently configured as a 2 unit complex, and a brick residence in the block immediately north of the museum. The museum's extensive collection includes period home furnishings, textiles, original artwork, more than 17,000 local photographs, and over 32,000 artifacts and items of historic value to the area. Close to 7,100 people from throughout the nation and 40 countries visit and learn from the museum collections annually, including more than 790 students from the laramie area and around the state and region via educational tours and youth volunteer programs. Annually, nearly 29,000 people experience the historic property throgh tours, use of rental facilities and special events held on the museum grounds. As an educational facility, lpm serves a wide variety of populations of all ages,…
$417,890 spent99% of program spendingThe laramie plains museum holds a significant youth development program every summer, engaging 20 to 40 students ages 12 to 15, in its innovative junior docent program. The program is an educational, confidence boosting endeavor for junior high-aged students as they are taught to speak well about the history of our area, to respond professionally in a work environment, and to interact confidently with the public as tour guides for laramie plains museum's historic house museum/carriage house and the one- room school house. Victorian teas, evening at the ivinsons, and the special holiday open house are also community attractions that are held at the museum each year.
$2,984 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $420,874.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.0M to $7.2M (+44%).
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: 2017 0% · 2020 8% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $4k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION 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
LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 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
100% of LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION 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 $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Wyoming, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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
LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC 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 LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
21%
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 LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC?
- LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC (Wyoming) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,854,944 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,845,823). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,854,944 in grants to LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $1,845,823 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LARAMIE PLAINS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION 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 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