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Minnie B Leonette Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$138k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2020–2025.

Health$182kYouth Development$115kHuman Services$84kEducation$68kArts & Culture$36kPhilanthropy$25kFood & Nutrition$20kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS$25,000
GOOD SHEPHERD'S CLOTHES CLOSET$20,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE$15,000
TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM$10,000
MAKE A WISH$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA$10,000
LEAD WITH HORSES$10,000
FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA$10,000
TINY TOES INC$8,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN NEVADA$5,000
SIERRA KIDS FOUNDATION$5,000
GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL$5,000
NOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES$5,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 10%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $5k → 10%CASA DE VIDA: $13k → 10%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 10%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 10%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 10%EDDY HOUSE: $5k → 10%EDDY HOUSE: $3k → 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENOSPARKS: $15k → 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENOSPARKS: $10k → 10%GOOD SHEPHERD'S CLOTHES CLOSET: $20k → 10%TINY TOES INC: $8k → 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.

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$319k · 11 repeat orgs$221k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +148% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

$319k
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+148%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS
    3× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +24%
  • SR
    SPECIAL RECREATION SERVICES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +5%
  • UR
    URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS
    2× · 2021–2023 · $43k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Nevada Reno Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +94%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • CD
    CASA DE VIDA
    one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -90%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
3
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada

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…

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4
Community Services of Nevada

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

Housing & Shelter
5
Northern Nevada Hiv Outpatient Program Education and Services

Northern Nevada Hopes provides affordable, high-quality, medical, behavioral health, and support services for all. We are dedicated to building a healthier community by providing coordinated care and support for individuals and family…

Health
6
Carson Valley Health Foundation

None

Health
7
Nevada Health Centers Inc

NVHC provides health services throughout the State of Nevada. Health services include OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Primary medical, Behavioral Health and dental care services. NVHC operates a mobile mammography clinic, two mobile…

Health
8
Green Chips Dba Impact Nv

Founded in 2008, ImpactNV has served as an independent nonprofit comprised of Nevadas public and private entities and NGOs. The goal of this alliance is to make Nevada and its communities more environmentally, economically and socially…

Environment
9
Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation

To provide social, emotional, educational, and psychological support and programs to families of all children diagnosed with life threatening or critical illnesses and provide healing arts and wellness programs to adults touched by cancer…

Health
10
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
11
Special Olympics Nevada

The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. This gives them continuing opportunities to…

Recreation & Sports
12
Southern Nevada Senior Law Program

To provide quality legal assistance and advocacy services for residents 60 years and older facing challenges of aging.

Human Services

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 Channel 5 Public Broadcasting Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndustry Trade AssociationsChristian Churches and Mini…Nevada Community ServicesFamily Support ServicesWildlife Conservation & Ani…Regional Arts & Culture Org…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr16%11%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr11%32%35–55yr12%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr16%5%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr11%50%35–55yr12%3%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
13%
285/2,186

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 34 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SPECIAL RECREATION SERVICES INC — $50,000 · OtherSPECIAL RECREATION SERVICES INCCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE — $15,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCEUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO — $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENORenown Health Foundation — $12,500 · OtherRenown Health FoundationMAKE A WISH — $10,000 · OtherMAKE A WISHCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE (CASA) — $10,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE (…TERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $10,000 · OtherTERRY LEE WELLS NEVADA DISCOVERY M…The Ballroom of Reno — $6,294 · OtherFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $10,000 · OtherFood Bank of Northern Nevada IncSoulful Seeds — $10,000 · OtherSoulful Seeds+3 more — $15,000 · Other+3 moreDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER — $26,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOU…THE 1701 GROUP FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE 1701 GROUP FKA ASSI…GOOD SHEPHERD'S CLOTHES CLOSET — $20,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD'S CLOTHES…CASA DE VIDA — $12,601 · Human ServicesCASA DE VIDACatholic Charities of Northern Nevada — $10,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of N…Tiny Toes Inc — $8,000 · Human ServicesTiny Toes IncEDDY HOUSE — $7,500 · Human ServicesEDDY HOUSENEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS — $5,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB O…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SIST…NEVADA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 329 — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEVADA AREA COUNCIL B…URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS — $42,849 · EducationURBAN ROOTS GA…University of Nevada Reno Foundation — $20,000 · EducationUniversity of …THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationTHE GREAT BASI…CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA — $25,000 · HealthLead with Horses — $13,248 · HealthParkinson Support Center of Northern Nevada — $2,000 · HealthNOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES — $16,640 · Arts & CultureCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNevada Museum of Art — $5,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$163,794Human Services$114,101Youth Development$102,500Education$67,849Health$40,248Arts & Culture$31,640Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS — $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL RECREATION SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetURBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS — $42,849 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER — $26,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE 1701 GROUP FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS — $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES — $16,640 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLead with Horses — $13,248 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCASA DE VIDA — $12,601 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetRenown Health Foundation — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoulful Seeds — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEVADA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 329 — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTiny Toes Inc — $8,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetEDDY HOUSE — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ballroom of Reno — $6,294 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetNEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNevada Museum of Art — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSky Tavern Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetParkinson Support Center of Northern Nevada — $2,000 over 1y, 4.9% 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.

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.

The Nell J Redfield F…Robert Z Hawkins Foun…Community Foundation …The E L Cord Foundati…Dermody Properties Fo…The Marshall R Matley…John Ben Snow Memoria…NV Energy Charitable …Thelma B & Thomas P H…Renown HealthEstelle J Kelsey Foun…William N Pennington …
The Nell J Redfield FoundationNV47.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · The E L Cord Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · The Marshall R Matley Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Renown Health · Estelle J Kelsey 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 Minnie B Leonette Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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