wydarkmoney.org · File one: Teton County, 2026

Wyoming Dark Money

How money reached one Wyoming election, assembled from the filings themselves. Nothing here alleges that any person or organization violated any law. The finding is about a disclosure architecture.

On August 18, 2026 three candidates won the Teton County Commission Democratic primary and two incumbents did not return. The largest money in the race was a federal committee filing from a Sheridan mail drop; the smallest was a state representative’s own. Everything on this site is lawful, and nearly all of it is disclosed somewhere. No voter could have assembled it before casting a ballot.

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Are Wyoming Elections for Sale? — 3,700 words, three sidebars, the graphic on this page.
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$6.9M since 2021 $1.3M $210K $70K $75K $250K $5,500 $47,805 $15,814 endorsed $67,087 $465K chaired it ran it ran it co-founded founded runs it chairs it promoted all three married trustee co-founder treasurer trustee Liz Storer STORER FOUNDATION Jackson · private foundation SIXTEEN THIRTY & NEW VENTURE FUNDS Washington, D.C. · donors secret ARNOLD VENTURES’ c4 Houston · donors secret WESTERN FUTURES FUND Sheridan · donors secret CONSERVATION ALLIANCE Jackson · charity WYOMING DONOR ALLIANCE Cody · donors secret Nikki Kaufman Ryan Lance Storer Foundation trustee Way Back PAC treasurer Skye Schell WAY BACK PAC Sheridan WYOMING WAY PAC SHELTER JH Jackson · donors secret · endorses KEEP JACKSON WHOLE PAC Storer’s own · donors named MOUNTAIN MOVEMENT STRATEGIES the consulting firm THE SLATE · ALL THREE WON · AUG 18, 2026 Karyn Chin Luther Propst Ali Dunford How the money reaches the slate Teton County commission, 2026. Solid line: money. Dashed line: a person, a role or an endorsement. Gray box: never names its donors. Ryan Lance signs the PAC’s filings as treasurer and sits on the foundation’s board. Sources: IRS 990s and 990-PFs · FEC · Wyoming Secretary of State · Teton County Clerk. Every figure is sourced at wydarkmoney.org Nothing here alleges a violation of law.
Two channels of money that no document connects, converging on one slate through the same people. Every figure is sourced on this site. Open full size →

Where the channels meet

  1. One funder, both ends. Western Futures Fund gave $70,000 to Shelter JH, which endorsed two of the winners and recommended the third, and $1.2 million this cycle to Way Back PAC, which paid all three candidates directly.
  2. One person. The Storer Foundation’s 2022 return lists a Nicole Kaufman of Victor, Idaho as a programmatic consultant paid $67,087. That year Nikki Kaufman ran the Wyoming Donor Alliance and sat on Shelter JH’s board — two Western Futures grantees — and chaired Shelter JH in 2024 while working as a paid campaign consultant to candidates it endorsed.
  3. One consultant, three cycles. Skye Schell founded Yellow Tree Strategy and then Mountain Movement Strategies. Western Futures money reached both through a state committee, in a 2022 Republican primary and in 2024. All three 2026 winners paid Mountain Movement.
  4. One name. Ryan Lance has been Way Back PAC’s treasurer since 2022 — the committee that paid the three winners. Lance sits on the current board of the Storer Foundation — the foundation whose president formed the committee that promoted them — and is absent from its FY2024 return, so he joined in 2025 or 2026.
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The full record. Behind these three pages sit the working files: the Teton money map with every entity and tab, the PAC registry and ledger, the philanthropy maps, the Shelter JH file, the Wyoming channel, the long explainer and the print graphics. Open the full record →
About this record. The networks described on this site are complex, and a label may in places be imperfect; corrections with a document attached are welcome and will be made. Every relationship, dollar figure and role shown here rests on a public filing, a government record, or an organization’s own published material, and the source is named on the page where it appears. Nothing on this site claims that any person or organization has broken any law. The full record →