Nevada · Nonprofit
Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc
Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc (Nevada) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,600 to it, the largest being ALAN AND CHRISTY MOLASKY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $-47557
What Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc does
Mission
Under the umbrella of the national Miss America Organization the Miss Nevada Scholarship Organization provides a venue where young women can achieve their personal and professional goals express their opinions intelligence and talent while competing for scholarships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The program strives to change lives and influence young women in the state of Nevada. Candidates are eligible to win scholarships which total over 50,000. The Foundation following the example of the Miss America Foundation intends to join education leaders in advocating for more young women to choose science technology engineering and mathematics STEM fields in all levels of education. The foundation issued scholarships to 27 recipients during 2025.
$74,426 spentof which $6,050 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $74,426.
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 2017 to 2018, from $159k to $46k (−71%).
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.
18% of Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Jillian Helget
Executive Director
Board chair
Paige Jensen
Judges Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation 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
Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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
“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 Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
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
Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc's revenue fell 47% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation 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.
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 Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation 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 Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc?
- Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc (Nevada) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,600 to it, the largest being ALAN AND CHRISTY MOLASKY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,600 in grants to Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc?
- ALAN AND CHRISTY MOLASKY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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