· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Northern Nevada
To strengthen our community through philanthropy and leadership by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 207 grants below total $15,974,772 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $17,583,583 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,608,811 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $307k
- $10k–50k116 grants · $2.3M
- $50k–250k33 grants · $3.2M
- $250k+17 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Harrah Automobile Foundation | $1,596,522 |
| Washoe County | $1,116,720 |
| Domestic Violence Resource Center | $1,099,500 |
| National World War II Museum | $1,075,000 |
| United States Diving Foundation Inc | $660,000 |
| Leap Forward | $600,000 |
| State of Nevada Department of Wildlife | $555,000 |
| Friends of Laguna Seca | $500,000 |
| Sage Ridge School | $427,040 |
| UNR Foundation - Morrill Hall Alumni Center | $414,341 |
| Nevada Humane Society Inc | $329,703 |
| Sky Tavern | $323,356 |
| CoachArt | $300,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows | $293,500 |
| Eddy House | $283,863 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Community Foundation of Northern Nevada’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in NV; read by stated purpose it is 54% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
229 repeat relationships — 154 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FFFoundation For Excellence at Woodland Christian Schools5× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +62% · 50% of their budget
- THTHE HARRAH AUTOMOBILE FOUNDATION NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM7× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +18% · 68% of their budget
- TNTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +26%
Funded once
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHERN NEVADA INCone grant, 2019 · $3.4M · revenue +13%
- TRTahoe Rim Trail Associationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2.0M · revenue +65%
- WOWINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $1.5M · revenue +8% · 29% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Nevada public radio will enhance the quality of life and foster civic engagement by informing, education and inspiring our growing audiences.
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…
We advocate, we inform, and we connect
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada Humanities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Innovations in Education - a Nelson Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
403 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 403 of the 481 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Foundation For Excellence at Woodland Christian Schools ↗
- Who funds THE HARRAH AUTOMOBILE FOUNDATION NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHERN NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES DIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Tahoe Rim Trail Association ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds Truckee River Watershed Council ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Special Assistance Fund For Energy(Safe) ↗
- Who funds SUSANNE & GLORIA YOUNG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAGE RIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HELA BIMA WORLD ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds KENNY GUINN CENTER FOR POLICY PRIORITIES ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds NEVADA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds KEEP TRUCKEE MEADOWS BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds LEAP FORWARD ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEVADA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 329 ↗
- Who funds Northern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services ↗
- Who funds COACHARTORG ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds Sky Tavern Inc ↗
- Who funds THE KIDDIE HAWK AIR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American Media Council Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · Renown Health · Tahoe Community Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Dermody Properties Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation · Helen Close Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Community Foundation of Northern Nevada funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- Willamette University — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.