· Private foundation
Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOARD OF REGENTS UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION | $2,980 |
| TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| CHILDREN'S CABINET | $1,300 |
| STEP ONE INC | $1,100 |
| GREAT BASIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO | $1,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS | $750 |
| ALICE SMITH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $500 |
| ARTOWN | $500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF N LAKE TAHOE | $500 |
| NORTH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| SOUTH UTAH UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 5 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- UOUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +35%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +153%
- RHRenown Health Foundation3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +412%
Funded once
- RHREED HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $2k
- RNReno National Little Leaguegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +140%
- HFHONOR FLIGHT NEVADA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +133%
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.
To honor and preserve the legacy of our fallen brothers and sisters who have given their life in service to our country since nevada became a state in 1864
The Nevada Alumni Association is here to foster and cultivate a common bond of pride, affinity and connection among alumni, students, prospective students and friends of the University of Nevada, Reno through quality programs, services and…
To provide social, emotional, educational, and psychological support and programs to families of all children diagnosed with life threatening or critical illnesses and provide healing arts and wellness programs to adults touched by cancer…
Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.
The Foundation enhances and enriches the lives of Northern Nevada families by aiding children with extraordinary needs, supporting community projects, and providing scholarships. Also, the Foundation serves to foster an appreciation for…
To create intimate, inspirational musical experiences by engaging the community through vibrant music making by the chamber orchestra and chamber ensembles.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
We advocate, we inform, and we connect
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Cabinet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mcqueen Band Parent Association Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 71 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
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 University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds Renown Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARTOWN ↗
- Who funds RENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA L ANDERSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Reno National Little League ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Ark Incorporated ↗
- Who funds JIMMY OLIVAS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
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: The E L Cord Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Estelle J Kelsey Foundation · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · Renown Health · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Greater Nevada Credit Union
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 Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.