Nevada · Nonprofit
Elko FISH
Elko FISH (Nevada) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,818 to it, the largest being NMC LEGACY FUND ($125,406). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $333k
- Net assets
- $-117519
What Elko FISH does
Mission
To determine and provide for the needs of individuals and families seeking urgent or supplemental assistance in elko county and surrounding northeastern nevada.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In-kind expenditures are the estimated value of donated food, beverage, and clothing distributed directly to needy people and the assoicated donated labor to accomplish the distribution
$1,649,970 spentof which $1,649,970 as grants71% of program spendingLow income assistance and transient for gas vouchers, food assistance, clothing, emergency help, and temporary housing. In-kind expenditures are the estimated value of donated food, beverage, and clothing distributed directly to needy persons and families.
$572,303 spentof which $38,488 as grants$202,191 earned by the program25% of program spendingOperation of the thrift store to supply clothing, furniture, and necessary needs to the community at a discounted price from donations of the community. Some supplies are given to meet the needs of the people. This also provides temporary employment to those in persons and to accomplish the organizations exempt purpose and to support other areas of the organizations financial needs.
$97,156 spent$297,743 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,319,429.
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 2024 to 2025, from $890k to $526k (−41%).
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: 2017 10% · 2018 9% · 2019 11% · 2020 11% · 2021 7% · 2022 24% · 2023 23% · 2024 20% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of Elko FISH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Julie Vice
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $41k → $21k.
2 of 10 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 Elko FISH’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
Elko FISH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 Elko FISH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 89% · 2022 99% · 2023 68% — 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
40% of Elko FISH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
Elko FISH draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k 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.
Against its field
Elko FISH's revenue grew 25% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Elko FISH
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Elko FISH: 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 Elko FISH?
- Elko FISH (Nevada) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,818 to it, the largest being NMC LEGACY FUND ($125,406). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Elko FISH have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $332,818 in grants to Elko FISH, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Elko FISH?
- NMC LEGACY FUND is the largest funder on record, with $125,406 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Elko FISH 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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