Wyoming · Nonprofit
WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION
WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION (Wyoming) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $671,511 to it, the largest being FARMERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION XXX-XX-XXXX ($308,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $-12418
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $672k
- Net assets
- $696k
What Wyoming Wild Sheep Foundation does
Mission
To promote and enhance increasing populations of indigenous wild sheep on the north american continent, to safeguard against the decline or extinction of such species and to fund programs for professional management of these populations, keeping all administrative costs to a minimum.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Grants to various federal and state governments, individuals, as well as universities for vegetation enhancement, habitat improvement, sheep relocation, vaccinations to prevent diseases and various other studies related to the preservation of wild sheep. Installation of guzzler water sources, harvest and horn study, capture studies and genetics.
$177,232 spent51% of program spendingEducational information mailed to the membership and the public as well as website support. Meetings and networking with federal, state and other organizations who have a direct or indirect influence on wild sheep. Publicaiton material costs to inform the public and membership of ongoing conservation work by the foundation. Cost associated with the executive director.
$169,207 spentof which $18,118 as grants49% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $346,439.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $976k to $1.2M (+22%).
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: 2020 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
-151% of WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Katie Cheesbrough
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $40k → $17k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 WYOMING WILD SHEEP 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
WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 57% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
51% of WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION'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 $326k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Wyoming, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $345k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,996 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$14k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WYOMING WILD SHEEP 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.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION?
- WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION (Wyoming) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $671,511 to it, the largest being FARMERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION XXX-XX-XXXX ($308,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $671,511 in grants to WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WYOMING WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION?
- FARMERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION XXX-XX-XXXX is the largest funder on record, with $308,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WYOMING WILD SHEEP 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 13 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