Miss Nevada Scholarship Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
472972133
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Sparks, NV, USA
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards

Reported finances

Revenue
$96,204
Expenses
$109,387
Assets
$5,793
Liabilities
$53,350

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jillian Helget (Executive Director)
  • Tiffany Kenison (President)

People named in this filing

  • Jillian Helget (Executive Director)
  • Tiffany Kenison (President)
  • Jolie Knapp (Secretary-Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Under the umbrella of the national Miss America Organization the Miss Nevada Scholarship Organization provides a venue where young women can achieve their personal and professional goals express their opinions intelligence and talent while competing for scholarships.

What it reported doing in 2025

The program strives to change lives and influence young women in the state of Nevada. Candidates are eligible to win scholarships which total over 50,000. The Foundation following the example of the Miss America Foundation intends to join education leaders in advocating for more young women to choose science technology engineering and mathematics STEM fields in all levels of education. The foundation issued scholarships to 27 recipients during 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.4%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -13.7%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.05; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 9.21; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -14.5% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -16.9% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -28.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77.4% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $74K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.