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Lake Tahoe Kiwanis Club Foundation at a glance

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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.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$88k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$439kPhilanthropy$95kCommunity Improvement$90kYouth Development$58kHuman Services$38kRecreation & Sports$17kFood & Nutrition$13kReligion$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$87,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Community Svc grants accrued for 20$87,500
College scholarships accrued for 20$87,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Tahoe Youth Family Services: $1k → 8%Tahoe Youth Family Services: $1k → 8%Tahoe Youth Family Services: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$534k · 36 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
24

Total granted

$534k
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+36%

Still filing today

36%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BG
    Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +32%
  • KF
    KIWANIS FAMILY HOUSE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +52%
  • CF
    CATALYST FAMILY INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • SA
    Scholarships accrued in 2021
    one grant, 2021 · $61k
  • SA
    Scholarships accrued in 2020
    one grant, 2020 · $45k
  • SA
    Scholarships - accrued for fall '18
    one grant, 2017 · $38k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Clean Tahoe Program

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.

Environment
2
Boys and Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe

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…

Unclassified
3
Lake Tahoe Historical Society

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.

—
4
Tahoe Maritime Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Mountain High Recovery Center

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.

Health
6
Joy Foundation
Arts & Culture
7
Tahoe Cross Country Ski Education Association Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
8
Sierra State Parks Foundation

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…

Recreation & Sports
9
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

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,…

Environment
10
Lake Tahoe Ski Club Foundation

Promote & support skier development

—
11
Tahoe Backcountry Alliance

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…

Environment
12
Tahoe Childrens Foundation

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Youth and Family Services; 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.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

College scholarships accrued for 20: $185,000 · OtherCollege scholarships accrued for 20KIWANIS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $91,348 · OtherKIWANIS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONCommunity Svc grants accrued for 20: $87,500 · OtherCommunity Svc grants accrued for 20Scholarships accrued in 2018: $75,000 · OtherScholarships accrued in 2018Scholarships accrued in 2021: $61,000 · OtherScholarships accrued in 2021Scholarships accrued in 2020: $45,000 · OtherScholarships accrued in 2020Scholarships - accrued for fall '18: $37,500 · Other+41 more: $164,710 · Other+41 moreCATALYST FAMILY INC: $6,000 · EducationTAHOE MAGIC INC: $5,000 · EducationSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF SOUTH LAKE TAHOE FNDT: $3,095 · EducationTahoe Rim Trail Association: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsTahoe Area Mountain Biking Association: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsTAHOE YOUTH SPORTS DEVELOPMENT: $750 · Recreation & SportsTAHOE BLUE VOLLEYBALL CLUB: $500 · Recreation & SportsCHRISTMAS CHEER INC: $7,500 · Food & NutritionKIWANIS FAMILY HOUSE: $7,000 · HealthTahoe Youth and Family Services: $3,000 · Human ServicesEncompass Youth: $2,750 · Human ServicesChurch Family Missions Ministries: $1,000 · Human ServicesEl Dorado Community Foundation: $4,000 · PhilanthropyKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,600 · Philanthropy
Other$747,058Education$14,095Recreation & Sports$7,750Food & Nutrition$7,500Health$7,000Human Services$6,750Philanthropy$5,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTMAS CHEER INC: $7,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetKIWANIS FAMILY HOUSE: $7,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCATALYST FAMILY INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTahoe Rim Trail Association: $5,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTAHOE MAGIC INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTAHOE ARTS PROJECT: $4,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetEl Dorado Community Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc: $3,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF SOUTH LAKE TAHOE FNDT: $3,095 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTahoe Youth and Family Services: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEncompass Youth: $2,750 over 2y, 19% of budgetKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetValhalla Tahoe: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChurch Family Missions Ministries: $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTahoe Turning Point Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

El Dorado Community F…Pipkin Charitable Fou…Tahoe Community Found…Barton Healthcare Sys…Tahoe FundTruettner Family Foun…Lake Tahoe Visitors A…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Network for Good
El Dorado Community FoundationCA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lake Tahoe Kiwanis Club Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lake Tahoe Kiwanis Club Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lake Tahoe Kiwanis Club Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lake Tahoe Kiwanis Club 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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