Nevada · Nonprofit
GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,162,172 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($469,522). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $382k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $947k
What Great Basin National Park Foundation does
Mission
Great Basin National Park Foundation passionately works to enhance, preserve, and interpret the starry night skies, wide-open scenery, cultural heritage, and diverse native ecosystems of great basin national park.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide education and outreach for great basin national park to schools and park visitors, including interpretive park programs and school programs supporting science core curriculum
$162,043 spent83% of program spendingSupport the park's stragazing and dark skies initiative including the donation of telescopes and operating the great basin observatory
$34,166 spentof which $4,976 as grants17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $196,209.
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 $432k to $642k (+49%).
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: 2024 13% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Greg Fine
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $181k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NATIONAL PARK 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 NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
80% 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 GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 51% · 2019 76% · 2020 34% · 2021 27% · 2022 42% · 2023 47% — 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 NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION draws 83% 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. $232k 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
GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION 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 NATIONAL PARK 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: 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 NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION?
- GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,162,172 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($469,522). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,162,172 in grants to GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $469,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK 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.
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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 16 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