Nevada · Private foundation
Helen Close Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $288k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $53,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Helen Close Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $272k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $308k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $271k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $297k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $317k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $187k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $341k | 48% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $230k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Nevada Journeys | $443,158 | 8 | 2% |
| University of Nevada Reno Foundation | $260,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe | $120,000 | 7 | 3% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girl Scouts of the Sierra Nevada Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Nevada Discovery Museum | $90,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Domestic Violence Resource Center | $80,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Institute of the Range & the American Mustang | $70,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Truckee Meadows Community College Foundation | $65,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The 1701 Group Fka Assistance League of Reno-Sparks | $65,000 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($138k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Helen Close Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Dermody Properties Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Renown Health · Tahoe Community Foundation · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · William N Pennington Foundation
How this is measured
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About Helen Close Charitable Foundation
- How much does Helen Close Charitable Foundation give?
- Helen Close Charitable Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $288,322 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Helen Close Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (27%), Education (22%), Animals (12%).
- Who are Helen Close Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sierra Nevada Journeys ($443k), University of Nevada Reno Foundation ($260k), Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe ($120k).
- Does Helen Close Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen Close Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Helen Close Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NV Energy Charitable Foundation, The E L Cord Foundation, Community Foundation of Northern Nevada.
- Where is Helen Close Charitable Foundation based?
- Helen Close Charitable Foundation is based in NV.
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