Nevada · Nonprofit
Sierra Nevada College
Sierra Nevada College (Nevada) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,859,440 to it, the largest being Tahoe Community Foundation ($7,782,163). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $8k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $9.9M
- Net assets
- $0
What Sierra Nevada College does
Mission
Sierra Nevada College's mission is to combine the liberal arts and professional preparedness through an interdisciplinary curriculum which emphasizes entrepreneurial thinking and environmental, social, economic, and educational sustainability to produce graduates who will be scholars of and contributors to a sustainable world.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization's remaining assets were distributed January 2026.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
On July 7, 2021, the Board of Trustees of the University approved a proposed transaction allowing Sierra Nevada University to become part of the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). Under the proposed transaction, the University Incline campus would become part of UNR and University programs and operations would be gradually merged with those of UNR. The Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents approved this proposed transaction on July 23, 2021. Effective July 1, 2022, the assets and related liabilities were assigned to the UNR, except for the beneficial interest in assets held by a community foundation and the investment accounts, which were transferred to the UNR Foundation.The SNU Board of Trustees continue to work with UNR Foundation and UNR to properly transfer the following remaining assets: Sardella Reserve Fund Cash Land CoverageBoth of these transactions are complex in nature and taking additional time. Upon the successful transfer of the remaining assets, the SNU Board of Trustees, by written consent, with dissolve the corporation. The final transfer of assets occurred in January 2026.
$1,582 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,582.
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 2022 to 2023, from $34M to $2.5M (−93%).
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 11% · 2022 29%. 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 10 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $36.
9 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 Sierra Nevada College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
Sierra Nevada College leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 Sierra Nevada College.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 74% · 2019 93% · 2020 81% · 2021 24% · 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.
How long its funders stay
34% of Sierra Nevada College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
84% of Sierra Nevada College'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. Of the $1.6M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding Sierra Nevada College receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.1M on record.
- Department of Education$3.1M
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 Sierra Nevada College
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
12% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sierra Nevada College: 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 Sierra Nevada College?
- Sierra Nevada College (Nevada) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,859,440 to it, the largest being Tahoe Community Foundation ($7,782,163). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sierra Nevada College have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $9,859,440 in grants to Sierra Nevada College, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sierra Nevada College?
- Tahoe Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,782,163 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sierra Nevada College 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 33 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