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GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION

GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,659,451 to it, the largest being WILLIAM N PENNINGTON FOUNDATION ($2,400,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$14M
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 90%
01What it does

What Great Basin College Foundation does

Mission

Great Basin College Foundation cultivates, stewards, and manages resources from our communities for the benefit of the students and programs of great basin college.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Funds disburseed to great basin college for scholarships for students attending great basin college. Funds from temporary and endowed funds restricted for scholarships. Miscellaneous support to great basin college for various college related programs and projects.

    $1,137,093 spentof which $1,137,093 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,137,093.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($930k) Net assets 100 ($9.1M)2018 Revenue 104 ($1.7M) Expenses 105 ($979k) Net assets 108 ($9.8M)2019 Revenue 518 ($8.3M) Expenses 112 ($1.0M) Net assets 188 ($17M)2020 Revenue 38 ($614k) Expenses 130 ($1.2M) Net assets 182 ($16M)2021 Revenue 399 ($6.4M) Expenses 470 ($4.4M) Net assets 204 ($19M)2022 Revenue 167 ($2.7M) Expenses 809 ($7.5M) Net assets 136 ($12M)2023 Revenue 83 ($1.3M) Expenses 271 ($2.5M) Net assets 129 ($12M)2024 Revenue 75 ($1.2M) Expenses 138 ($1.3M) Net assets 138 ($13M)2025 Revenue 88 ($1.4M) Expenses 145 ($1.4M) Net assets 150 ($14M)
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Revenue (88)Expenses (145)Net assets (150)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $9.8M to $17M (+75%).

$9.1M
$9.8M
$17M
$17M
$20M
$14M
$12M
$13M
$14M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

78% of GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$681k
’17
$699k
’18
$7.3M
’19
−$591k
’20
$2.1M
’21
−$4.8M
’22
−$1.2M
’23
−$83k
’24
$71k
’25
20
months of
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

Dr Robert Colon

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed171716171720161715
Joined·+2+3+6+0+5+2+2+0
No longer listed·24502612
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $35k → $34k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION’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

GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90%
largest funder
94%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 79% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 46% · 2022 99% · 2023 27% — 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 GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

99% of GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Nevada funders.

WA
NV
CO
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Nevada out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $142k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve20.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 11%Fundraising 5%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

60%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Great Basin College · exempt
  • Nevada System of Higher Education · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,659,451 to it, the largest being WILLIAM N PENNINGTON FOUNDATION ($2,400,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,659,451 in grants to GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
WILLIAM N PENNINGTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREAT BASIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 11 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