Wyoming · Nonprofit
SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION
SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION (Wyoming) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,000 to it, the largest being Pamela and Wayne Garrison Family Foundation ($65,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $43k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $204k
What Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce Foundation does
Mission
Promote the historic nature of the community, promote an expanding economic environment, provide economic information and tools to the community and schools, provide sightseeing opportunities to the public, help create a festive and charitable atmosphere in the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Promote and support leadership sheridan county program, which identifies future leaders, enhances community and leadership knowledge, establishes valuable connections, and promotes civic and community involvement.
$27,832 spent84% of program spendingSupport the godspeed podcast which is dedicated to sharing uplifting stories of triumph over adversity, acts of kindness, and efforts to spread light within wyoming communities. Also support the candidate forum which is an event for the community to hear and meet all candidates running for public office.
$5,390 spent16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $33,222.
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 2018 to 2019, from $175k to $403k (+131%).
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.
75% of SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $90k → $10k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION’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
SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
42% 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 SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 72% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
87% of SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Wyoming funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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
SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION
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
87%
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 SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: 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 SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION?
- SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION (Wyoming) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,000 to it, the largest being Pamela and Wayne Garrison Family Foundation ($65,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $130,000 in grants to SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION?
- Pamela and Wayne Garrison Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHERIDAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION 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 5 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