Southern Nevada Gem and Mineral Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237007522
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Phone
8315210214
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$112,736
Expenses
$99,310
Assets
$162,570
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Tyra Tripp (President)
  • Ron Mazz (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Tyra Tripp (President)
  • Ron Mazz (Vice President)
  • David Ford (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

Form 990-EZ, Part III, Organization Primary Exempt Purpose. Promote interest and education in the Earth Science, mineralogy, gemology and lapidary arts. We are organized on a 100% volunteer basis (10,366 volunteer-hours expended in 2025) and have approximately 880 members, including 240 families with 108 children.

What it reported doing in 2025

Lapidary Education Center. We maintained a lapidary center for creating jewelry and rock art. Eleven different classes in the lapidary arts were offered with volunteer instructors (759 volunteer-hours) and shop supervisors aiding students. Approximately 2,100-man hours were expended in the center during 2025 creating jewelry and rock art. An all-volunteer team maintains the equipment with 3,800 volunteer-hours expended.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 77% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 66
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.5%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 88%; rating input score 88

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.64; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 74.5% of revenue deployed · 88% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $87K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.