Form 990 for tax year 2025

Totals

Total revenue

$231,229

Total expenses

$288,777

Contributions and grants received

$108,056

Grants paid

$5,000

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$67,992

Other revenue

$55,181

Total assets, end of year

$3,028,552

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$3,028,552

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$86,398

Management and general expenses

$80,231

Fundraising expenses

$122,148

Program service expenses (Part III)

$86,398

Program services were 29.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2025

• WATER LEVEL MONITORING SYSTEMS - RANCHBOT.

  Expenses $60,219

• FUTURE WATER PROJECT SUPPLIES.

  Expenses $18,513

• JIM LUSK BUILD.

  Expenses $2,366

• THE FRATERNITY OF THE DESERT BIGHORN IS A 100% VOLUNTEER NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION BASED IN LAS VEGAS, NV, WITH MEMBERS "UNSELFISHLY DEDICATED TO THE WELFARE AND CONSERVATION OF DESERT BIGHORN AND NEVADA'S WILDLIFE." THE ORGANIZATION WAS FOUNDED IN 1964 BY A HANDFUL OF CONCERNED ADVOCATES AND CONSERVATIONISTS WHEN THE DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP POPULATION IN NEVADA WAS AT A HISTORIC LOW OF LESS THAN 2,000 ANIMALS. THE FRATERNITY OF THE DESERT BIGHORN HAS WORKED OVER THE LAST SIX DECADES IN UNISON WITH NDOW AND OTHER LIKE-MINDED CONSERVATION GROUPS TO RECOVER BIGHORN SHEEP POPULATIONS IN SOUTHERN NEVADA NOW NEARING 10,000 ANIMALS. ON SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2025, THE FRATERNITY OF THE DESERT BIGHORN (FDB) HELD ITS 61ST ANNUAL FUNDRAISER BANQUET AT THE SOUTH POINT HOTEL AND CASINO. IN THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF 2025, FDB, IN CLOSE COOPERATION WITH THE NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE (NDOW), CONSTRUCTED THREE DESERT BIGHORN WATER DEVELOPMENTS (AKA GUZZLERS) IN RUGGED AND REMOTE TERRAIN IN THREE MOUNTAIN RANGES IN SOUTHERN NEVADA. IN JANUARY 2025, THE FIRST OF THE THREE GUZZLERS TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN THE 2025 BUILD SEASON WAS SITUATED IN THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE MUDDY MOUNTAINS, CLARK COUNTY. DUE TO THE LARGE POPULATION OF DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP IN THIS LOCATION, THE WATER STORAGE CAPACITY OF THE PROJECT WAS BOOSTED TO AN EIGHT-TANK SYSTEM. THE EIGHT 2,300-GALLON TANKS EQUATED TO AN OVERALL STORAGE CAPACITY OF 18,400 GALLONS. IN FEBRUARY 2025, A NEW BIGHORN GUZZLER WAS CONSTRUCTED IN THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF THE SPOTTED RANGE, NYE COUNTY. THE SPOTTED RANGE IS THE WESTERNMOST MOUNTAIN RANGE ON THE DESERT NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. THE THIRD BIGHORN GUZZLER CONSTRUCTED IN 2025 WAS IN THE NORTHWEST PAHRANAGAT RANGE, LINCOLN COUNTY. ONCE CHARGED BY RAIN AND SNOW PRODUCING STORMS, THE LARGE EIGHT-TANK PROJECT WILL RELIABLY PROVIDE WATER TO NOT ONLY DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP BUT ALSO OTHER AVIAN AND TERRESTRIAL WILDLIFE. AS THE LEAD ORGANIZATION ON AN AMBITIOUS WATER MONITORING INITIATIVE, THE FDB, IN CLOSE COOPERATION WITH NDOW AND SEVERAL NONPROFIT 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS, CONTINUES TO INSTALL WATER LEVEL MONITORS AND COMPANION RAIN GAUGES AT NEWLY CONSTRUCTED AND EXISTING CRITICALLY IMPORTANT BIGHORN GUZZLERS IN SOUTHERN NEVADA. THE AUTONOMOUS WATER MONITORS COLLECT WATER LEVEL AND RAINFALL DATA. DATA COMMUNICATIONS ARE SATELLITE-MEDIATED AND ARE NEAR REAL-TIME. THE NEAR REAL-TIME INFORMATION ON THE STATUS OF GUZZLERS PROVIDES ESSENTIAL INFORMATION RELATIVE TO NOT ONLY WATER AVAILABILITY BUT ALSO MAINTENANCE ISSUES. THE WATER MONITORING EQUIPMENT WAS PURCHASED FROM RANCHBOT MONITORING SOLUTIONS (FORT WORTH, TX) AND TRACK TAG LLC (ELY, NV). THE WATER LEVEL AND RAINFALL DATA ARE CLOSELY MONITORED BY NDOW PERSONNEL AND FDB MEMBERS. THE FDB CONTINUES ENGAGEMENT IN PROGRAMS TO EDUCATE CHILDREN AND ADULTS ABOUT CONSERVATION MEASURES FOCUSED ON MAINTAINING VIABLE POPULATIONS OF DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP AND OTHER WILDLIFE IN SOUTHERN NEVADA. THE FDB ACTIVELY PROMOTED DESERT BIGHORN CONSERVATION TO KIDS AND ADULTS AT THE CLARK COUNTY FAIR, AND SPONSORED FIVE KIDS TO ATTEND THE NEVADA YOUTH RANGE CAMP HELD IN THE SCHELL CREEK RANGE NEAR ELY, WHITE PINE COUNTY. IN ADDITION, THE FDB SPONSORED SEVERAL IMPORTANT EVENTS: THE 58TH MEETING OF THE DESERT BIGHORN COUNCIL IN GOLD CANYON, AZ; SHEEP SHOW (WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION) AT THE RENO-SPARKS CONVENTION CENTER, CHAPTER & AFFILIATES SUMMIT (WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION) IN FORT LAUDERDALE, FL, AND A MEETING OF THE NEVADA BIGHORN WORKING GROUP HELD AT THE RENO-SPARKS CONVENTION CENTER. LASTLY, THE FDB HOLDS MONTHLY MEMBERS MEETINGS TO INFORM ATTENDEES OF UPCOMING BIGHORN SHEEP CONSERVATION OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES, AND TO FOSTER RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AND THE US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE.

  Expenses $5,300 · Grants $5,000

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2025

Filed

12 May 2026

IRS schema version

2025v4.0

Source object

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