Nevada · Nonprofit
SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS
SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS (Nevada) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,331,436 to it, the largest being SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,509,500). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Sierra Nevada Journeys does
Mission
Our mission is to deliver innovative outdoor science based education programs for youth to develop critical thinking skills and to inspire natural resource stewardship.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Residential education programs at Sierra Nevada Journeys outdoor education camp: in 2024, a total of 5,767 youth attended our outdoor education camp. Fifth and sixth-graders throughout the school year participate in overnight outdoor learning. These education programs use outdoor, experiential learning to teach science, technology, engineering, and math (stem), as well as social-emotional learning competencies. Students received full days and evenings of hands-on, engaging instruction during which they observe the environment and ecology, collect and analyze samples, learn the importance of environmental stewardship, and work collaboratively to solve science problems. Additionally, 53% of students feel comfortable in nature after participating in Sierra Nevada Journeys' overnight outdoor learning program.
$3,211,576 spent$3,053,252 earned by the program69% of program spendingClassrooms unleashed focuses on 1st - 6th grade students in northern california and northern nevada. The program blends innovative classroom science education with practical, interactive field study to build stem skills and content knowledge. Sierra Nevada Journeys' science educators deliver a lesson unit in the classroom and a field science experience at a local nature area. Students work independently and as groups to make observations, analyze data, and record conclusions in their science notebooks. The cirriculum is designed to directly address state science standards and elicit from students a high level of curiosity, engagement, and enthusiasm for science learning. 7,375 students participated in classrooms unleashed with a 28% average gain score from pre-to post-assessment.community programs: during school days, evenings, summers, and weekends, Sierra Nevada Journeys facilitates community development partners' programs for more than 28,000 children to increase accessibility to outdoor and stem learning. Partners include elementary schools through a program called classrooms unleashed, family stem nights, camps for children with disabilities, teen leadership camps, and other…
$1,436,467 spent$647,022 earned by the program31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,648,043.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.2M to $7.8M (+85%).
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 6% · 2018 4% · 2019 6% · 2021 25% · 2022 25% · 2023 4% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Malena Raymond
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 30 funders, grant income fell $656k → $656k.
9 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 JOURNEYS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 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 JOURNEYS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 27% · 2019 31% · 2020 44% · 2021 37% · 2022 20% · 2023 14% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
52% of SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS's revenue grew 55% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $463k on record.
- Department of Defense$306k
- Department of Agriculture$93k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$35k
- Environmental Protection Agency$30k
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 JOURNEYS
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: 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 JOURNEYS?
- SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS (Nevada) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,331,436 to it, the largest being SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,509,500). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $9,331,436 in grants to SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS?
- SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,509,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS 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 73 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