Wyoming · Nonprofit
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES (Wyoming) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,502,399 to it, the largest being ROBERT S & GRAYCE B KERR FOUNDATION ($8,806,215). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $47M
What National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States does
Mission
Impart knowledge and appreciation of humanity's relationship with wildlife through art.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Museum membership - see schedule o
$314,994 spent$735,923 earned by the program9% of program spending2023-2024 exhibits - see schedule o
$2,632,086 spent$115,732 earned by the program72% of program spendingEducation programs for children - see schedule o
$634,429 spent$12,525 earned by the program17% of program spendingThe museum's collection embodies the best efforts of historic and contemporary artists to depict wildlife, including over 5,000 cataloged items spanning 4,000 years by approximately 600 artists. As a national collection, it emphasizes prime examples of work produced by artists from the nation itself, with a representative selection of subjects, forms, styles, materials, and media. The museum focuses its collecting practices with the primary goal of continually strengthening the permanent collection through strategic acquisitions, ranging from major artworks to supplemental pieces, which will enhance the overall quality as well as the diversity of the collection, while also adding to its thematic depth and breadth.
$76,860 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,658,369.
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 2017 to 2018, from $29M to $36M (+25%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 10% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Steven Seamons
Executive director
Board chair
Lindy Sayers
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 47 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $2.0M.
18 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 funders by total. 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
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 66% · 2019 64% · 2020 56% · 2021 56% · 2022 65% · 2023 58% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Wyoming, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$25k
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 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
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 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES: 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 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES?
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES (Wyoming) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,502,399 to it, the largest being ROBERT S & GRAYCE B KERR FOUNDATION ($8,806,215). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $16,502,399 in grants to NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES?
- ROBERT S & GRAYCE B KERR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,806,215 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES 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 95 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