Wyoming · Nonprofit
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST (Wyoming) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,358 to it, the largest being LANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($74,751). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $144k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Museum of the American West does
Mission
Museum development and operation to preserve and protect the cultural and natural history of wind river, sweetwater and south pass areas with historical exhibits and a variety of programs.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Operations of museum highlighting the american west.
$1,223,251 spentof which $847,881 as grants$17,204 earned by the program99% of program spendingEducate the community and preserve the dance heritage of the wind river area indian tribes.
$15,411 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,238,662.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $33k (−97%).
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 29% · 2020 9% · 2021 28% · 2022 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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.
Chief executive
Jim Corbett
Executive director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12k → $13k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST’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
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 51% · 2020 51% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
98% of MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Wyoming, across 2 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST's revenue fell 58% between 2017 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: 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 MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST?
- MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST (Wyoming) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,358 to it, the largest being LANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($74,751). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $144,358 in grants to MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST?
- LANDER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $74,751 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 4 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