Nevada · Nonprofit
NEVADA BOYS STATE
NEVADA BOYS STATE (Nevada) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($13). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2020
- $20k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $13
- Net assets
- $81k
What Nevada Boys State does
Mission
The mission of the American Legion Nevada Boys' State program is to develop future leaders by educating and inspiring Nevada's youth. The program strives to create an understanding of an appreciation for our democratic form of government while encouraging a commitment to future service.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
For the 2019 session the program was cancelled do to COVID-19 restriction on public gatherings. The American Legion's Boys' State program which is a unique summertime educational program that does not emphasize classroom lectures and textbook learning. Instead, the program has focused on participation and personal experience in a model state, complete with governing bodies, political parties, lobbyists, and elected public officials which in its design mirror the structure and operation of the Nevada State government.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $41k to $63k (+52%).
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.
53% of NEVADA BOYS STATE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 NEVADA BOYS STATE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of NEVADA BOYS STATE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13 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.
Against its field
NEVADA BOYS STATE's revenue fell 67% between 2017 and 2020.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,764 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like NEVADA BOYS STATE
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
45%
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 NEVADA BOYS STATE: 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 NEVADA BOYS STATE?
- NEVADA BOYS STATE (Nevada) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $13 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($13). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEVADA BOYS STATE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $13 in grants to NEVADA BOYS STATE.
- Who is the largest funder of NEVADA BOYS STATE?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $13 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEVADA BOYS STATE 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 1 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