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DRI RESEARCH FOUNDATION

EIN 94-2879252 RENO, NV

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Revenue 2024
$3,070,169
Expenses 2024
$2,295,732

Program services were 98.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E052
Classification
1200
Street
2215 RAGGIO PKWY

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE TRUSTEES OF THE DRI FOUNDATION BUILD TRUSTWORTHY RELATIONSHIPS AND CREATE INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS TO SHOWCASE THE IMPACT OF DRI, ATTRACT FOLLOWERS, SUPPORTERS AND DONORS, AND EXPAND THE FUNDRAISING CAPACITY OF DRI.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF THE DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE.

  • TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE (DRI), A DIVISION OF THE NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

    Expenses $2,252,644 · Grants $2,252,644

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Nora James

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linda Faiss

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Betsy Fretwell

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Gagosian

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Julie Gilday-Shaffer

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James King

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Janet Lowe

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Clark Wood

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marybel Batjer

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Terry Shirey

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ronald Smith

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephanie Kruse

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Zane Marshall

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Zimmerman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Beth Campbell

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Gallagher

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kristin McMillan Porter

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Yolanda King

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,070,169
    Expenses
    $2,295,732
    Contributions
    $2,898,442
    Grants paid
    $2,252,644
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,796,938
    Expenses
    $2,640,298
    Contributions
    $2,720,442
    Grants paid
    $2,433,688
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,511,951
    Expenses
    $1,343,071
    Contributions
    $1,496,015
    Grants paid
    $1,283,134

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,854,412
    Expenses
    $1,651,262
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,010,646

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,013,034
    Expenses
    $432,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,810,547

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $402,199
    Expenses
    $579,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $534,717

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $719,024
    Expenses
    $903,448
    Assets (EOY)
    $741,449

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,082,047
    Expenses
    $1,136,492
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,434,536

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $844,286
    Expenses
    $1,028,674
    Assets (EOY)
    $931,071

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,030,981
    Expenses
    $982,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $904,717

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,432,573
    Expenses
    $1,318,109
    Assets (EOY)
    $856,040

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $757,156
    Expenses
    $627,308
    Assets (EOY)
    $766,795

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $745,901
    Assets (EOY)
    $645,954

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • DESERT RESEARCH CORPORATION

    C · SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH & CONSULTING SERVICES · NV · 100% owned

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.