Nevada · Nonprofit
NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Nevada) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,772,491 to it, the largest being The Eleanor Kagi Foundation A Lynn M Legacy ($381,256). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $809k
What Nevada Policy Research Institute does
Mission
Nevada Policy Research Institute is a free-market think tank that seeks private solutions to public challenges facing nevada, the west and the nation. The institute educates nevada's citizens, media members and public officials about the importance of advancing free-market principles in public policy, particularly in education, fiscal policy and transparency. The institute accomplishes this by conducting scholarly research and analysis of nevada public policy issues, providing education for nevada citizens and, when necessary and appropriate, litigating on behalf of itself, its members, and/or private citizens on legal issues of public importance otherwise relating to its mission and purpose.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
The institute uses multiple mediums to ensure its message reaches as many people as possible. Subscribers receive our emails, wich includes news and analysis from around nevada and the nation. Our commentaries examine policy matters currently before nevada lawmakers, and our policy studies provide a more in-depth look at the state's most pressing issues. Institute scholars often appear on radio and television broadcasts, and are regularly printed in nevada newspapers. Nevada policy's staff testify before legislators in carson city. Npri uses social media, networking with coalition partners, teaches webinar classes and makes live presentations throughout the state.
$655,746 spent$37,380 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $655,746.
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 2020 to 2021, from $528k to $755k (+43%).
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.
89% of NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Ranson Webster
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $187k → $433k.
12 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. 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
NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 23% · 2019 22% · 2020 22% · 2021 23% · 2022 14% · 2023 18% — broadly stable.
“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
46% of NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $978k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 611 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 611 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: 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 POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Nevada) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,772,491 to it, the largest being The Eleanor Kagi Foundation A Lynn M Legacy ($381,256). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $2,772,491 in grants to NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- The Eleanor Kagi Foundation A Lynn M Legacy is the largest funder on record, with $381,256 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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 48 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