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Jack Van Sickle 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $420k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE | $100,000 |
| TAHOE RIM TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $30,000 |
| WASHOE LEGAL SERVICES | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF | $25,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $25,000 |
| NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| STEP 2 | $20,000 |
| NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WINNEMUCCA | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ELY | $15,000 |
| WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
| WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS2× · 2017–2018 · $346k · revenue +153%
- FBFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +106%
- TRTahoe Rim Trail Association8× · 2017–2024 · $224k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- LFLITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada (BBBSN) is a non-profit 501(c) 3 corporation that is a leader in youth mentoring services. Since 1971, BBBSN has been developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
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 inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
To further the interests of the mining industry in nevada.
To provide quality legal assistance and advocacy services for residents 60 years and older facing challenges of aging.
To support programs providing the highest quality service to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. these services include a residential program at eagle valley children's home and a respite program provided in the…
To promote fair government practices and for all other legal purposes
Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.
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…
The Mission of the SNTR is to Operate a ranch for at risk kids.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nothern Nevada Inc 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.
22 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. 22 of the 31 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds Tahoe Rim Trail Association ↗
- Who funds THE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds STEP 2 INC ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE MEADOWS PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE SIERRA NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds VICTORY RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE TALK FOR TEENS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds RENO RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Nevada Hands & Voices ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN 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: Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Renown Health · Dermody Properties Foundation · Helen Close Charitable Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Tahoe Community Foundation · Roxie and Azad Joseph Foundation · William N Pennington 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 Jack Van Sickle 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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