· Private foundation
Estelle J Kelsey 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 $10k9 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $338k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $620k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RENOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS | $200,000 |
| NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA FOUNDATION ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT | $90,000 |
| NEVADA STATE PRISON PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $80,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $32,200 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WESTERN NEVADA | $25,000 |
| RENO-SPARKS GOSPEL MISSION | $20,000 |
| CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $20,000 |
| GOOD SHEPERD'S CLOTHES CLOSET | $15,000 |
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, $319k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- RHRenown Health Foundation7× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +633%
- NMNevada Museum of Art9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +199%
- UOUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation7× · 2019–2025 · $924k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA ATHLETIC DEPARTMENTone grant, 2024 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA INTERCOLLEGIATE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2024 · $50k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
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…
As nevada's federally designated primary care association, nvpca promotes access to affordable, comprehensive & quality health care for nevada's underserved populations. we support & advocate on behalf of member community health centers,…
CSNV is engaged in comprehensive community development projects that promote neighborhood revitalization and economic development, community education and civic action, housing, development; cultural awareness, equity and
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
To provide the public with display of classic, antique, rare and contemporary automobiles.
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.
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…
To nurture the spirit of generosity and volunteerism of the community, we focus our philanthropic efforts in fostering quality healthcare of the highest standards for Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital.
The Associations mission is to be the voice and advocate for oral health care in Nevada.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Club of Mason Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 66 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 Renown Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds THE 1701 GROUP FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS ↗
- Who funds CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD'S CLOTHES CLOSET ↗
- Who funds NEVADA STATE PRISON PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARTOWN ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada ↗
- Who funds Sierra Kids Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds For Kids Foundation ↗
- Who funds Northern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds NAMI NORTHERN NEVADA ↗
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: Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Dermody Properties Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · William N Pennington Foundation · Renown Health · The Marshall R Matley Foundation · Minnie B Leonette Family 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 Estelle J Kelsey 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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