· Private foundation
Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNR FOUNDATION | $62,560 |
| BISHOP MANOGUE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $26,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE OF N NV | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN NEVADA ITALIAN ASSOC | $9,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $5,500 |
| INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG DRAMATIC VOICES | $5,000 |
| ST TERESA OF AVILA SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| RENO PHILHARMONIC | $5,000 |
| LITTLE FLOWER CHURCH | $5,000 |
| TRUCKEE TAHOE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN NEVADA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| ARTOWN | $5,000 |
| CARMEL OF OUR LADY OF THE MOUNTAINS | $5,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF RENO | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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× · 2017–2025 · $507k · revenue +35%
- NMNevada Museum of Art6× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +199%
- SRSAGE RIDGE SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- ULUNR LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $62k
- NNNORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +65%
- S1STEP 1 INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +114%
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.
Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.
Northeastern nevada historcial society is dedicated to the preservation of the hertitage, culture, and natural history of northeastern nevada. our ongoing goals are to establish a western art center and nourish the western culture that…
To create intimate, inspirational musical experiences by engaging the community through vibrant music making by the chamber orchestra and chamber ensembles.
Maintain historic building
The Nevada Restaurant Association is a nonprofit trade association dedicated to serving the needs of the food and beverage service and tourism industries in the state of Nevada. Services include educational seminars for members as well as…
To protect and restore sierra lands, water, wildlife and rural communities. to engage and support efforts to adopt exemplary local sustainable community actions accross the sierra nevada that balance social, economic and environmental…
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
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Cabinet Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Max Vincze Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 8. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 37% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 82 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 Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds SAGE RIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG DRAMATIC VOICES INC ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTOWN ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA ITALIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds Sky Tavern Inc ↗
- Who funds STEP 2 INC ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center for Adaptive Riding ↗
- Who funds Sierra Nevada Ballet ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds STEP 1 INC ↗
- Who funds New Reno Little Theater ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · The Bretzlaff Foundation Inc · Renown Health · Tahoe Community Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · Estelle J Kelsey 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 Edna B & Bruno Benna 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.
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.
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