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Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation at a glance

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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.

$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$242kYouth Development$49kHealth$32kArts & Culture$13kHuman Services$12kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$4kReligion$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$750
Median grant
4
States reached
$413k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NORTH VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL$500
SOUTH UTAH UNIVERSITY$500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF N LAKE TAHOE$500
Individual grant recipient$250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHILDREN'S CABINET: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NV
CA
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$339k · 33 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
32

Total granted

$339k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+118%

Still filing today

42%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    University of Nevada Reno Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $66k · revenue +35%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +153%
  • RH
    Renown Health Foundation
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +412%

Funded once

  • RH
    REED HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • RN
    Reno National Little Leaguegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +140%
  • HF
    HONOR FLIGHT NEVADA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +133%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Healthy Nevada
Health
2
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
3
Nevada Veterans Memorial Plaza

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

Arts & Culture
4
University of Nevada Alumni Association

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…

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5
Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation

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…

Health
6
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
7
Reno Rodeo Foundation

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…

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8
Reno Chamber Orchestra Inc

To create intimate, inspirational musical experiences by engaging the community through vibrant music making by the chamber orchestra and chamber ensembles.

Arts & Culture
9
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nothern Nevada Inc

To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
10
Nevada Gold Mines Heritage Fund
Philanthropy
11
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
12
Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce

We advocate, we inform, and we connect

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Cabinet Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION: $120,280 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONRenown Health Foundation: $30,000 · OtherRenown Health FoundationTRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $12,750 · OtherTRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE+56 more: $68,514 · Other+56 moreUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $65,558 · EducationUniversity of Nevada…+2 more: $1,700 · EducationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS: $43,729 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…ARTOWN: $5,800 · Arts & CultureRENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA: $5,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $625 · Arts & CultureFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $4,500 · Food & NutritionHONOR FLIGHT NEVADA INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $1,300 · Human ServicesNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$231,544Education$67,258Youth Development$43,729Arts & Culture$11,925Food & Nutrition$4,500Human Services$2,800Philanthropy$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $65,558 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS: $43,729 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetRenown Health Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARTOWN: $5,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA: $5,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE: $4,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOSHUA L ANDERSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $2,050 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT NEVADA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Ark Incorporated: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJIMMY OLIVAS ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetNEVADA WOMEN'S FUND: $773 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRENO BIKE PROJECT INC: $550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA BOXING HALL OF FAME INC: $350 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRENO CONTINENTAL LITTLE LEAGUE: $300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVeterans Guest House Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOLLAND PROJECT: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Reno National Little League ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The E L Cord Foundati…Community Foundation …The Nell J Redfield F…NV Energy Charitable …Robert Z Hawkins Foun…Thelma B & Thomas P H…Tahoe Community Found…Estelle J Kelsey Foun…Peek Family Charitabl…Renown HealthJohn Ben Snow Memoria…Greater Nevada Credit…
The E L Cord FoundationNV34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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