Nevada · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH
FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH (Nevada) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,593 to it, the largest being THE E L CORD FOUNDATION ($68,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $201k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $197k
- Net assets
- $205k
What Friends of Dangberg Home Ranch does
Mission
The mission of Friends of Dangberg Home Ranch is to protect and share the resources of the Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park to promote understanding of Carson Valley's agricultural history and to provide arts and cultural opportunities as a public park.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Historic Restoration, Preservation, and Maintenance. Much of the work conducted by Friends of Dangberg is focused on the restoration and long-term maintenance of the park's historic grounds and structures. In 2024-25, the major project, with an expense of $68,000, supported Douglas County's work repairing the foundations of the historic ranch house. A small storage shed was also purchased to support maintenance, and small repairs throughout the park were funded.
$83,295 spent48% of program spendingCultural Programming. Each spring-summer, Friends of Dangberg organizes a series of public arts and culture events for presentation at the historic park. In tax year 2024-25, there were 30 of these events, including four music concerts, fourteen Chautauqua portrayals, a Chautauqua workshop, and ten author/historian presentations, with 2,018 people attending. The objective is to provide audiences with a variety of cultural experiences that include performing arts and humanities presentations.
$47,532 spent$14,265 earned by the program27% of program spendingEducation Programs. Friends of Dangberg employs an education specialist is responsible for developing educational programs for youth, with an emphasis on third and fourth grade students in public, private, and home schools. In 2024-25, 499 youth (along with 209 accompanying adults) participated in structured field trips to the park, where they learned about ranching in the past, or they attended additional scheduled programs including a kite-flying weekend, agricultural heritage day, Western heritage reading, photography, and gardening events. In addition, staff made several in-school presentations focused on local history and living history portrayals (Chautauqua).
$23,044 spent$613 earned by the program13% of program spendingFriends of Dangberg, due to the generosity of others who donated specifically for this purpose, was able to make a donation/grant of $11,570 to Community Foundation of Northern Nevada (CFNN), a 501(c)(3) non-profit. The money was added the Dangberg Home Ranch Endowment Fund, which is owned and managed by CFNN to generate a return solely benefiting the publicly owned Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park, supporting restoration and other projects as possible. There were no other expenses and no revenue associated with this activity.
$11,570 spentof which $11,570 as grants7% of program spendingFriends of Dangberg provided interpretive and collection management services throughout the tax year. Specifically, it provided professional management of the park's large historic artifact collection, and used these items to share the history of the Dangberg family and the local area via guided tours and other activities. In FY2024-25, accomplishments included continued management of and enhancements to the storage and control of the museum collection. A special exhibit in December 2024 highlighted unique items from throughout the collection. Expenses for interpretive and collection management services totaled $9,296, with no grants provided, and $2,530 in revenue.
$9,442 spent$2,530 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $174,883.
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 2021 to 2022, from $150k to $232k (+55%).
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: 2022 41% · 2023 32% · 2024 9% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Mark Jensen
Executive Director
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 rose $13k → $15k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH’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
FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 75% · 2023 48% — 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
67% of FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH's funders are still giving 1 year 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
60% of FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH is better cushioned than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH: 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 FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH?
- FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH (Nevada) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $196,593 to it, the largest being THE E L CORD FOUNDATION ($68,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $196,593 in grants to FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH?
- THE E L CORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $68,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH 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.
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 8 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