Nevada · Nonprofit
THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL
THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL (Nevada) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $277,570 to it, the largest being The Orchard House Foundation -A Nevada Non Profit Corporation ($145,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $295k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $278k
- Net assets
- $210k
What The Great Basin Outdoor School does
Mission
To ignite children's passion for learning and foster cooperation, respect, and responsibility through hands-on discovery in the outdoor classroom.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Great basin outdoor school programs immerse students in multi-day overnight ecology camps in natural settings on nevadas shoreline of lake tahoe and day programs at other local sites. Activities meet state curriculum standards in many subjects, especially science. Students hike, snowshoe, learn ecology with hands-on activities, and do environmental projects to help keep lake tahoe blue and reduce fire danger in the tahoe basin. Activities are designed for classes of primarily fifth and sixth-grade students and their teachers and young adult volunteers. The program seeks to give the students a better understanding of our natural world and to inspire them to conserve the resources found within it, while increasing their confidence and developing more respect for themselves and each other through team-building activites. Grants and individual support keep the program affordable and provide fee reductions and scholarships for children in need. The organization provided services, such as day camps and other outdoor programs to low income populations.
$200,913 spent$158,272 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $200,913.
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 2021 to 2022, from $126k to $192k (+53%).
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 24% · 2018 40% · 2019 18% · 2020 29% · 2021 39% · 2022 35% · 2023 31% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $23k → $59k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL’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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 68% · 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 100% · 2022 79% · 2023 25% — 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
60% of THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
81% of THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL?
- THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL (Nevada) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $277,570 to it, the largest being The Orchard House Foundation -A Nevada Non Profit Corporation ($145,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $277,570 in grants to THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL?
- The Orchard House Foundation -A Nevada Non Profit Corporation is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL 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 11 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