Wyoming · Nonprofit
WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION
WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION (Wyoming) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,682,979 to it, the largest being G O FORWARD CHARITABLE TRUST ($932,894). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $364k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Wyoming Wilderness Association does
Mission
The Wyoming Wilderness Association works to protect wyoming's public wild lands to ensure a future of wild places for people and wildlife.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Wyoming Wilderness Associations had three major public lands campaigns in 2025: the bridger-teton national forest, the bureau of land management rock springs plan amendment, and the keep it public wyoming campaign. These campaigns involved educating our members, the general public, school groups, businesses, diverse organizations, and elected officials on the future of these wild places, current management, plan revisions, and draft legislation discussions. Wwa gave presentations on the value of wilderness areas to the aforementioned groups. Concerned citizens wrote comments on draft management plans, proposed projects, produced op-eds and letters to the editor, and attended public meetings around public land management based on our educational outreach efforts. Wwa's outreach work was accomplished through printed and distributed materials, email alerts, brochures, newsletters, and tabling events. Wwa informed the public through publicized outings, the wildwyo.org website, and social media platforms. While serving to protect wyoming's public wildlands wwa staff, board members, and supporters volunteered on multiple stewardship projects on national forests and bureau of land…
$295,238 spent98% of program spendingIn 2025, wwa hosted several outings across the state. Outings led participants into an incredible array of landscapes boasting ecological diversity, wildlife migration corridors, and potential wilderness landscapes. In addition, wwa attended seven classes to provide education to 80 students on topics including leave no trace, public land management, and wilderness. Wwa also hosted the banff mountain film festival in sheridan with over 300 participants.
In 2025, wwa continued to elevate our stewardship efforts. Wwa involved over 100 volunteers contributing over 700 hours and 40 data collections. 4 wilderness ambassadors spent over 300 hours monitoring and clearing trails, educating forest visitors, installing signs, and gathering important management data. One wilderness steward monitored the cloud peak wilderness through a costshare agreement between wwa and the bighorn national forest. Through outings and projects wwa promoted youth advocacy and conducted user-created trail inventories in the bighorn and shoshone national forests. Training protocols for solitude monitoring and user-created trail inventories were provided through six collaborative forest service and wwa-led trainings.
In 2025, wwa continued to serve and fill leadership roles on collaborative decision-making committees and boards around the state, including the bridger-teton working group, the wyoming bureau of land management coalition, and the keep it public wyoming coalition. Wwa educates committee members and our supporters around public land management and proposed legislation. Public comment was gathered from wwa email alerts, notices, comment portals, public meeting updates, and postcard campaigns. Additionally, wwa hosted and attended multiple virtual and live public meetings, presentations, and panel discussions to inform the public and encourage personalized comments around large scale plans, such as the rock springs bureau of land management resource management plan amendment and the public lands rule rescission. Many constituents find value in these wild landscapes and wwa informs the public on how to stay engaged and have their voices heard. Wwa continued to advocate for wilderness study areas, designated wilderness, the public lands rule and the roadless rule by traveling to dc twice in 2025. Initiating 14 multiple meetings with congressional leaders and staff. Wwa continued to…
$4,711 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $299,949.
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 2020 to 2021, from $459k to $1.1M (+147%).
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: 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $57k → $605k.
7 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION’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 WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
27% 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 WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 66% · 2019 30% · 2020 26% · 2021 52% · 2022 59% · 2023 43% — 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
81% of WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Wyoming, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $445k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,693 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,693 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$24k
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 WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION?
- WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION (Wyoming) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,682,979 to it, the largest being G O FORWARD CHARITABLE TRUST ($932,894). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,682,979 in grants to WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION?
- G O FORWARD CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $932,894 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION 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.
Play a game about who funds Wyoming Wilderness Association →
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 30 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