Wyoming · Nonprofit
THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH
THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH (Wyoming) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,288,292 to it, the largest being EDWIN T MEREDITH FOUNDATION ($933,500). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $20M
What The New Museum at the Bradford Brinton Ranch does
Mission
The brinton museum connects people to the past, present and future of the american west through its historic quarter circle ranch, fine art, and american indian art collections.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The museum preserves, maintains, and interprets the former bradford brinton memorial's holdings (including the land), while collecting and exhibiting work which expands, augments, and enhances this collection. Exhibition, education and collecting emphasis is placed on native american arts and crafts as well as fine and decorative art relating to the late 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. An emphasis is placed on art and artists who depict the west during those periods. The museum delivers a robust offering of experiences and programs in furtherance of the purpose stated above. During the 2025 program year the museum presented 13 exhibitions and 91 educational programs,(continued on schedule o)in addition to regularly scheduled tours of the historic ranch house, grounds and forrest e. Mars, jr. Building. Through the various exhibition and educational offerings, the museum served over 26,000 visitors.
$2,751,260 spent$126,096 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,751,260.
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 $22M to $21M (−4%).
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 17% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH’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. 9 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
Kendra Heimbuck
Executive director
Board chair
David Hubert
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $69k → $493k.
15 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Brinton Museum Endowment Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH raised.
From the IRS filings of THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
41% 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 THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 92% · 2019 54% · 2020 24% · 2021 52% · 2022 40% · 2023 30% — 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
65% of THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Wyoming, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The Bradford Brinton Memorial · exempt
- The Brinton Endowment Fund · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH?
- THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH (Wyoming) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,288,292 to it, the largest being EDWIN T MEREDITH FOUNDATION ($933,500). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $3,288,292 in grants to THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH?
- EDWIN T MEREDITH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $933,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NEW MUSEUM AT THE BRADFORD BRINTON RANCH 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 46 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