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Lake Tahoe Kiwanis Club 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Svc grants accrued for 20 | $87,500 |
| College scholarships accrued for 20 | $87,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
36 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +32%
- KFKIWANIS FAMILY HOUSE6× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +52%
- CFCATALYST FAMILY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- SAScholarships accrued in 2021one grant, 2021 · $61k
- SAScholarships accrued in 2020one grant, 2020 · $45k
- SAScholarships - accrued for fall '18one grant, 2017 · $38k
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.
To improve the visual quality of the Tahoe Basin portion of El Dorado County through community education, citizen involvement and enforcecment of litter and nuisance ordinances.
The mission of the Club is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe has been a cornerstone of the…
The Lake Tahoe Historical Society was founded in 1968 to preserve the artifacts, archives, and present the history of the Lake Tahoe basin. Its main presence is through Museum, 1930's style log cabin and Osgood Toll House.
Mountain High Recovery Center is a substance use treatment facility whose mission is to provide local, quality, and affordable recovery services to individuals and families in the South Lake Tahoe, CA community.
The Tahoe Cross Country Ski Education Association's (TCCSEA) mission is to promote the sport of cross country skiing through educational activities for children and adults in the North Lake Tahoe/Truckee region of Northern…
The Sierra State Parks Foundation provides critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Donner Sierra State Parks for Education, Restoration, and Cultural and Environmental Preservation in partnership with…
The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…
Promote & support skier development
The Tahoe Backcountry Alliance is the voice for the human-powered winter backcountry community in the Lake Tahoe area, advocating for and informing our community about critical issues affecting winter backcountry recreation in and around…
Tcf is a parenting education and childhood play center for children ages birth - 48 months. tcf empowers familes through parenting education, early childhood learning experiences, and a supportive community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Youth and Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Tahoe Youth Sports Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 62 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 & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS CHEER INC ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS FAMILY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CATALYST FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds Tahoe Rim Trail Association ↗
- Who funds TAHOE MAGIC INC ↗
- Who funds TAHOE ARTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds El Dorado Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc ↗
- Who funds SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF SOUTH LAKE TAHOE FNDT ↗
- Who funds Tahoe Youth and Family Services ↗
- Who funds Encompass Youth ↗
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: El Dorado Community Foundation · Pipkin Charitable Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Barton Healthcare System · Tahoe Fund · Truettner Family Foundation · Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good
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 Lake Tahoe Kiwanis Club 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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