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Nevada Bighorns Unlimited Reno Chapter

Provide grants and donations to various nevada non-profit organizations and state agencies to be used for the protection and preservation of nevada wildlife.

$712k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$133k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$2.1MRecreation & Sports$84kArts & Culture$9kYouth Development$8k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $152,734, the rows itemized in this filing. The $711,763 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $559,029 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $133k
$132,734
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$132,734
MAISON T ORTIZS YOUTH$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FREEDOM HUNTERS: $5k → 10%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 5 repeat orgs$401k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$1.8M
$401k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+111%

Still filing today

80%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
AnimalsRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $424k · revenue +87%
  • TN
    The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
    3× · 2017–2019 · $210k · revenue +39% · 65% of their budget
  • NA
    NATIONAL ARCHERY IN SCHOOLS PROGRAMS INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $46k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +20%
  • FO
    FRATERNITY OF THE DESERT BIGHORNgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +177% · 60% of their budget
  • HL
    HELIWILD LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Carson Springs Wildlife Foundation
Animals
2
Wilderness Conservation Foundation
Environment
3
National Pronghorn Interpretive and Visitors Center

Educating the public about the biology, habitat and welfare of the Pronghorn.

Arts & Culture
4
Wyoming Sheep Foundation
Food & Nutrition
5
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
6
Rocky Mountain Veterans' Hunts & Excursions Inc
Recreation & Sports
7
Utah Wild Sheep Foundation

To secure and maintain habitat for the northern american wild sheep to benefit of hunters and non hunters hunters

Animals
8
Moore-Odom Wildlife Foundation Inc
Environment
9
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
10
Sierra Nevada Hounds

Sierra nevada hounds is a social and recreational hunting club that hunts on tens of thousands of acres of blm public lands.

Recreation & Sports
11
Wolfe Ranch Rescue
Animals
12
Society for the Conservation of Bighorn Sheep

Conservation and management of the wild sheep population of california and throughout north america

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Sheep Legacy Foundation Attn Bryan Bartlett; the most unlike its peers is Maison T Ortiz Youth Outdoor Skills Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEVADA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $1,063,297 · OtherNEVADA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES+8 more: $72,830 · Other+8 moreNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $423,628 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · AnimalsROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INCFRATERNITY OF THE DESERT BIGHORN: $50,000 · AnimalsFRATERNITY OF THE DESERT BIGHORNThe Nevada Bighorns Foundation: $210,000 · EducationThe Nevada…NATIONAL ARCHERY IN SCHOOLS PROGRAMS INC: $46,000 · Recreation & SportsMaison T Ortiz Youth Outdoor Skills Inc: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsSIERRA SNOWMOBILE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsNevada Museum of Art: $8,612 · Arts & CultureFREEDOM HUNTERS: $5,000 · Human ServicesWILD SHEEP LEGACY FOUNDATION ATTN BRYAN BARTLETT: $5,000 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE CRIMESTOPPERS INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,136,127Animals$723,628Education$210,000Recreation & Sports$81,000Arts & Culture$8,612Human Services$5,000Philanthropy$5,000Crime & Legal$5,000

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 budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $423,628 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Nevada Bighorns Foundation: $210,000 over 3y, 65% of budgetFRATERNITY OF THE DESERT BIGHORN: $50,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetNATIONAL ARCHERY IN SCHOOLS PROGRAMS INC: $46,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMaison T Ortiz Youth Outdoor Skills Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $8,612 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM HUNTERS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWILD SHEEP LEGACY FOUNDATION ATTN BRYAN BARTLETT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE CRIMESTOPPERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% 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.

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.

Rocky Mountain Elk Fo…National Fish and Wil…Amazonsmile Foundation
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation IncMT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Nevada Bighorns Unlimited Reno Chapter funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nevada Bighorns Unlimited Reno Chapter. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Nevada Bighorns Unlimited Reno Chapter 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 20 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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