Nevada · Nonprofit
MESQUITE WORKS INC
MESQUITE WORKS INC (Nevada) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,261,345 to it, the largest being CHARLES AND PHYLLIS M FRIAS CHARITABLE TRUST ($3,173,795). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $510k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Mesquite Works Inc does
Mission
Mesquite works steam center's mission is to nurture and prepare the young minds of today for the challenges an opportunities of the future. We beleive that the key to unlocking a brighter futhre lies in developing the 4 c's - creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication through a hands-on steam program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mesquite works steam center in mesquite, nv, and its surrounding area, provides pre-k and other students free access to hands-on steam learning. We build early skills, confidence, and real pathways that grow into a strong 21st-century workforce for our community.
$385,911 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $385,911.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.7M to $3.1M (+15%).
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: 2023 55% · 2024 3% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of MESQUITE WORKS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
Nikki Meador
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $130k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 MESQUITE WORKS 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
MESQUITE WORKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MESQUITE WORKS INC's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $70k 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
MESQUITE WORKS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MESQUITE WORKS 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MESQUITE WORKS 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 MESQUITE WORKS INC?
- MESQUITE WORKS INC (Nevada) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,261,345 to it, the largest being CHARLES AND PHYLLIS M FRIAS CHARITABLE TRUST ($3,173,795). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MESQUITE WORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $3,261,345 in grants to MESQUITE WORKS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MESQUITE WORKS INC?
- CHARLES AND PHYLLIS M FRIAS CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $3,173,795 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MESQUITE WORKS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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