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TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC

TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC (Wyoming) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $477,421 to it, the largest being TW FOUNDATION ($100,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.8M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$477k
Net assets
$1.4M
12/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Troopers Drum & Bugle Corps Inc does

Mission

To provide a youth activity with positive educational experiences that promote the growth and development of specific life skills consistent with the trooper tradition of excellence.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Troopers drum & bugle corps, inc. Sponsors a drum and bugle corps open to people up to age 21. The goal of the corps is to provide an educational activity that promotes honor, loyalty, dedication, pride, teamwork and self-confidence. Corps members are provided instruments, uniforms, equipment, props & instruction. The corps also provides transportation, food & housing for tours and competitions throughout the united states and canada. Approximately 150 people are in the corps. All funds contributed to troopers drum & bugle corps are used to enhance programs. Generally there are no restrictions placed on contributions.

    $1,533,855 spent$488,621 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,533,855.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 105 ($1.1M) Expenses 98 ($1.2M) Net assets 96 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 104 ($1.1M) Expenses 94 ($1.1M) Net assets 94 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 44 ($461k) Expenses 38 ($458k) Net assets 94 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 103 ($1.1M) Expenses 87 ($1.0M) Net assets 97 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 125 ($1.3M) Expenses 119 ($1.4M) Net assets 90 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 148 ($1.5M) Expenses 140 ($1.7M) Net assets 83 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 169 ($1.8M) Expenses 153 ($1.8M) Net assets 81 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (169)Expenses (153)Net assets (81)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $2.0M (−7%).

$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.2M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

59% of TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$145k
’17
−$75k
’18
−$28k
’19
$3k
’20
$43k
’21
−$120k
’22
−$119k
’23
−$56k
’24
1.8
months of
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

Mike Ottoes

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1414121212111313
Joined·+1+1+1+0+3+3+0
No longer listed·1310410
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $17k → $109k.

2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC’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

TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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

21%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 45% · 2019 53% · 2020 72% · 2021 59% · 2022 66% · 2023 46% — 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

50% of TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

79% of TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC's grant income comes from Wyoming funders.

WI
WY
PA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Wyoming out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC has grown faster than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 15%Fundraising 1%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC?
TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC (Wyoming) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $477,421 to it, the largest being TW FOUNDATION ($100,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $477,421 in grants to TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC?
TW FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TROOPERS DRUM & BUGLE CORPS INC 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