Nevada · Nonprofit
Great Basin Resource Watch
Great Basin Resource Watch (Nevada) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $609,750 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($375,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $299k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $610k
- Net assets
- $251k
What Great Basin Resource Watch does
Mission
Natural resource protection: Protected communities and the environment from the negative impacts of mineral development; provided support to communities impacted by mining
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Strengthening Community Voices: ensures environmental justice around mining requires that the people that will be most affected are front and center to organizing and advocacy work. They are there on the ground where mining is happening or where it might happen, and are in the best place to know when mining proposed and what should be protected. Strengthening Community Voices strives to help foster the ability of directly affected peoples and the general public to be well equipped to address mining in their region and advocate for the protection of the community and environment.
$62,746 spent$75,000 earned by the program43% of program spendingMining Justice for the Energy Transition: work focuses on mineral extraction connected t oenergy transition technologies and the need to consider the full impact of their development while using this moment of new mineral extraction to usher in better mining practices. Despite the end use of these metals its vital to ensure that mine permitting is as protective as possible so that this green revolution does not become an ecological disaster in yet another era of irresponsible extraction that would perpetuate the colonial process that has brought the world to this place.
$51,533 spent$60,000 earned by the program35% of program spendingProtection of Water and Sensitive Areas: seeks to prevent loss of environmentally and culturally sensitive areas from mining with water as a keystone resource. The mining industry pumps vast amounts of water affecting streams, springs, and seeps for many miles around the mine site. Often the water system is not expected to recover for hundreds of years. Many streams and springs are anticipated to dry up and the mitigation approach is to supply replacement water from another source and pipe the water to the spring location; an inadequate solution on multiple levels. The riparian areas are not preserved by this replacement scheme and most importantly the sources of the springs are not protected. It is the sources that need to be preserved and ultimately hold the cultural value. In addition, long term water pollution is also a consequence of many mining operations.
$32,251 spent$40,000 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $146,530.
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 $163k to $262k (+61%).
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.
41% of Great Basin Resource Watch’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $8k → $207k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Resource Watch’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 Resource Watch leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 57% · 2021 68% · 2022 75% · 2023 73% — 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
80% of Great Basin Resource Watch's funders are still giving 2 years 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
Great Basin Resource Watch draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k 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
Great Basin Resource Watch runs a healthier operating margin 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 Resource Watch
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
31%
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 Great Basin Resource Watch: 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 Resource Watch?
- Great Basin Resource Watch (Nevada) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $609,750 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($375,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Great Basin Resource Watch have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $609,750 in grants to Great Basin Resource Watch, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Great Basin Resource Watch?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Great Basin Resource Watch 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 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