Nevada · Nonprofit
SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS
SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS (Nevada) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,321,436 to it, the largest being SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,509,500). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS's revenue grew 55% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,925 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Jack Van Sickle Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Renown Healthshared funderslocal
- Swantz Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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
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
53% 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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 73 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Jack Van Sickle Foundationlocalportfolio matchNV · funds 19 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Renown Healthshared funderslocalNV · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 76 organizations near you
- Swantz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Binion Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Islands Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Suncadia Fund for Community EnhancementlocalWA · funds 46 organizations near you
- Minnie B Leonette Family FoundationlocalNV · funds 27 organizations near you
- Greater Nevada Credit UnionlocalNV · funds 29 organizations near you
- Renown Regional Medical CenterlocalNV · funds 26 organizations near you
- Deborah and Tj Day FoundationlocalNV · funds 25 organizations near you
- Tahoe Community Foundationshared funderslocalNV · backs 89 organizations that share your funders · funds 109 organizations near you
- Earl and Elizabeth Ash Foundation of NevadalocalNV · funds 17 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS?
- SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS (Nevada) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,321,436 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 $9,321,436 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.
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 73funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing