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Jack and Catherine Flanary Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$270k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Environment$200kHealth$110kArts & Culture$90kFood & Nutrition$90kYouth Development$90kHuman Services$90kHousing & Shelter$30kReligion$30k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Our Lady of Wisdom$30,000
Reno Little Theater$30,000
Awaken Inc$30,000
The Wilderness Society$30,000
Food Bank of Northern Nevada$30,000
Eddy House Educational Fund$30,000
Alzheimer's Association$30,000
Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada$30,000
The Nature Conservancy$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The Wilderness Society: $30k → 14%Food Bank of Northern Nevada: $30k → 7%Our Lady of Wisdom: $30k → 10%The Wilderness Society: $30k → 14%Food Bank of Northern Nevada: $30k → 7%The Nature Conservancy: $30k → 10%The Wilderness Society: $30k → 14%Food Bank of Northern Nevada: $30k → 7%The Nature Conservancy: $30k → 10%The Nature Conservancy: $20k → 10%Reno Little Theater: $30k → 10%Reno Little Theater: $30k → 10%Eddy House Educational Fund: $30k → 10%Reno Little Theater: $30k → 10%Eddy House Educational Fund: $30k → 10%Eddy House Educational Fund: $30k → 10%Alzheimer's Association: $30k → 10%Alzheimer's Association: $30k → 10%Alzheimer's Association: $30k → 10%The Nature Conservancy: $30k → 10%Alzheimer's Association: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 15% of Jack and Catherine Flanary Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in NV; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Jack and Catherine Flanary Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$560k · 6 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$560k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+2%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • NR
    New Reno Little Theater
    3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +43%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada
    3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +40%
  • FB
    Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • AI
    Awaken INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +2%
  • OL
    Our Lady of Wisdom
    one grant, 2024 · $30k

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

04Your field
05the grantee network

6 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Alzheimer's Association — $110,000 · OtherAlzheimer's AssociationTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $110,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYEddy House Educational Fund — $90,000 · OtherEddy House Educational FundOur Lady of Wisdom — $30,000 · OtherOur Lady of WisdomNew Reno Little Theater — $90,000 · Arts & CultureNew Reno Litt…Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada — $90,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Char…Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $90,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of …THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $90,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNES…Awaken INC — $30,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$340,000Arts & Culture$90,000Human Services$90,000Food & Nutrition$90,000Environment$90,000Housing & Shelter$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew Reno Little Theater — $90,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada — $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAwaken INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds New Reno Little Theater
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada
  • Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc
  • Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY
  • Who funds Awaken INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Jack and Catherine Flanary 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jack and Catherine Flanary Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jack and Catherine Flanary Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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