Nevada · Nonprofit
HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC
HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC (Nevada) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,979 to it, the largest being Viragh Family Foundation ($58,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $10M
What High Sierra Industries Inc does
Mission
We develop, deliver and use learning systems that benefit people with disabilities and those who support them. Our vision: people with disabilities are visible, valued participants in the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Live provides shared living services to individuals with intellectual disabilities, supporting them living independently. Ilive supported 27 individuals across multiple shared living placements. Iwork offers employment opportunities in assembly, packaging and janitorial services for people with intellectual disabilities who have demonstrated difficulty maintaining traditional employment. Iwork provided 3 people with individualized employment opportunities.
$1,729,376 spent$1,768,050 earned by the program69% of program spendingGenarete is a learning system designed to support learners, families and clinicians in identifying and achieving individualized learning goals. The system helps map current skills against personal goals, tailoring specific needs. Genarete benefited 90 individuals including 25 children. Ilive provides shared living services to individuals with intellectual disabilities, supporting them living independently. Ilive supported 27 individuals across multiple shared living placements. Iwork offers employment opportunities in assembly, packaging and janitorial services for people with intellectual disabilities who have demonstrated difficulty maintaining traditional employment. Iwork provided 3 people with individualized employment opportunities.
$413,065 spent$112,220 earned by the program16% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$372,545 spent$97,422 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,514,986.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $15M to $14M (−7%).
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 43% · 2018 69% · 2021 41% · 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Dr Karin Hilgersom
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $20.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC’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
HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 71% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Government funding HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Defense$1.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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
- Washoe Ability Resource Center · exempt
- United Nevada Industries · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC: 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 HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC?
- HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC (Nevada) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,979 to it, the largest being Viragh Family Foundation ($58,800). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $69,979 in grants to HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC?
- Viragh Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $58,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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