Nevada · Nonprofit
GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER
GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER (Nevada) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,069,646 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($9,069,646). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $182k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $394k
What Great Basin Land and Water does
Mission
To preserve and enhance the ecological, natural, scenic, historic and/or recreational values of important land and waters resources primarily in the great basin areas of the united states.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To purchase and transfer land and water rights on western rivers and desert lakes. Including the truckee river and pyramid and summit lakes. Residents, visitors and natural resources of the great basin areas of the united states benefit by these aquisitions and transfers.
$181,900 spentof which $500 as grants$169,568 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $181,900.
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 2022 to 2023, from $681k to $566k (−17%).
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 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 96% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $135k → $5.9M.
From the IRS filings of GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER’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.
Where its funders are
GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER: 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 GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER?
- GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER (Nevada) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,069,646 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ($9,069,646). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,069,646 in grants to GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER?
- NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,069,646 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT BASIN LAND AND WATER 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 1 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