Wyoming · Nonprofit
NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT
NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT (Wyoming) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,500 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($135,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $90k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $226k
- Net assets
- $110k
What Native Memory Project does
Mission
Preserving indigenous peoples culture
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
NMP website, nativememoryproject.org, was expanded and maintained. Thirty-nine new videos were added. Nearly 300 videos are now hosted on the NMP website. Our site had over 26,000 views from over 4,000 unique viewers. The Native Memory Project playlist on the Gary Wortman YouTube Channel carries over 100 of the NMP videos and had over 85,000 additional views.Videos from our 2023 shoot of the Shoshone Forest WWII POW camp were completed. Nineteen new plant talks were posted from our 2023 trip to Minnesota where we interviewed ethnobotanist Linda Black Elk. We dug into the archives to post 13 new Grant Bulltail stories,Board Secretary, Mary Keller arranged Wales Bulltail demonstrating how the Crow set up their teepees at the Heart Mountain Ceremony which was filmed for possible inclusion on NMP website. 13,500
$13,500 spent25% of program spendingNMP part-time project coordinator posted videos from her trip to the Bear River Massacre site as well as an Arapaho dance video. Darrah also recorded at least seven new interviews and created video content for our Facebook page while maintaining an active social media presence. She attended the Crow Pow wow and traveled to Moccasin Lake to conduct interviews. 16,000
$16,000 spent30% of program spendingPart time employee worked to expand our exposure and develop relationships by attending conferences and giving presentations. Three Board members attended the Native Education Conference along with our employee. Employee completed a leadership course. 13,300
$13,330 spent25% of program spendingSEE ATTACHED SCH O Grants and allocations 0, Program service expenses 10,925 NMP hired a consultant to prepare a grants calendar, we then enlisted their help in applying for 6 grants. NMP received a 10,000 Grant from the Wyoming Humanities Council from this effort. Other activities associated with operating NMP including web hosting maintenance, Insurance, bookkeeping, dues, fees professional expenses. 10,925.
$10,925 spent20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,755.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $75k to $112k (+49%).
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.
100% of NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $40k → $27k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT’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
NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 74% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
92% of NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from Wyoming funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $209k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT
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
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT?
- NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT (Wyoming) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,500 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($135,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $225,500 in grants to NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 6 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