Nevada · Nonprofit
Comstock Foundation for History and Culture
Comstock Foundation for History and Culture (Nevada) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,032 to it, the largest being NEVADA HUMANITIES INC ($9,987). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $292k
What Comstock Foundation for History and Culture does
Mission
To encourage the preservation and promotion of the historic and cultural resources within the comstock historic district and/or Virginia City national historic landmark district. The mission includes purposes of acquisition, Restoration, Preservation, Maintenance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Donovan Mill Restoration - Expenses to this project include organization overhead. This project is led by the Donovan Mill working group consisting of historian/archivists, civil engineer and his spouse, retired mining engineer and additional volunteers to help on the projects.
$19,769 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,769.
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 2023 to 2024, from $231k to $292k (+26%).
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: 2018 8% · 2019 13% · 2020 71% · 2021 9% · 2022 20% · 2023 18% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Comstock Foundation for History and Culture’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $13 → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Comstock Foundation for History and Culture’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
Comstock Foundation for History and Culture leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Comstock Foundation for History and Culture.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Comstock Foundation for History and Culture's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Comstock Foundation for History and Culture runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Comstock Foundation for History and Culture
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% 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 Comstock Foundation for History and Culture: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Comstock Foundation for History and Culture?
- Comstock Foundation for History and Culture (Nevada) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,032 to it, the largest being NEVADA HUMANITIES INC ($9,987). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Comstock Foundation for History and Culture have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,032 in grants to Comstock Foundation for History and Culture, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Comstock Foundation for History and Culture?
- NEVADA HUMANITIES INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,987 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Comstock Foundation for History and Culture find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2 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