Wyoming · Nonprofit
SCIENCE KIDS
SCIENCE KIDS (Wyoming) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,928 to it, the largest being WOLF CREEK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($185,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $243k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $541k
- Net assets
- $219k
What Science Kids does
Mission
We get kids outdoors, where great science learning happens.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Supplemental information for schedule o: 2023 overview of Science Kids: Science Kids is a nonprofit in sheridan, wy. Established in 2009, we are in our 15th year of operation. Our mission is to "get kids outdoors, where great science learning happens," with the ultimate hope to encourage curiosity and life-long connections to science. In 2023, the core of Science Kids remained the same - to offer vibrant classes within the sciences to children. Over the years, Science Kids has expanded and contracted our physical reach into communities from our ever-constant hub in sheridan, wyoming. Late in 2022, we made the wise decision to contract once again, and close our satellite campus in cody, wy. That decision safeguarded funds and brought a Science Kids bus from cody to sheridan, allowing us to run classes concurrently and offer more than ever to sheridan. Those classes are at our core. We believe our most important service is summertime classes in the sciences for young children between the ages of 6 and 12, and when possible to 12 to 14 year olds. We are increasingly aware of the need middle-school students have to engage with outdoor spaces and reignite their love of the sciences. To…
$91,697 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $91,697.
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.
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 $126k to $220k (+75%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $20k → $79k.
From the IRS filings of SCIENCE KIDS’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
SCIENCE KIDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 65% · 2023 39% — 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
80% of SCIENCE KIDS's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 64% 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
SCIENCE KIDS draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Wyoming, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like SCIENCE KIDS
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
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 SCIENCE KIDS: 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 SCIENCE KIDS?
- SCIENCE KIDS (Wyoming) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,928 to it, the largest being WOLF CREEK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($185,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCIENCE KIDS have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $540,928 in grants to SCIENCE KIDS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCIENCE KIDS?
- WOLF CREEK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCIENCE KIDS 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 14 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