· Public charity
Nevada Volunteers
To solicit applications for americorps funding and to support the volunteer infrastructure in nevada.
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.
The 15 grants below total $4,841,669 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,943,874 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $102,205 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $487k
- $250k+6 grants · $4.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUCKEE MEADOWS PARKS FOUNDATION | $1,178,857 |
| GREAT BASIN INSTITUTENCC | $1,081,001 |
| CITY OF LAS VEGAS | $618,930 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $531,669 |
| WALKER BASIN CONSERVANCY | $488,071 |
| NEVADA OUTDOOR SCHOOL | $352,333 |
| OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE | $127,164 |
| CITY OF HENDERSON | $123,803 |
| HEALTHY COMMUNITIES COALITION | $120,683 |
| NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $115,043 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS | $33,671 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $29,469 |
| THE GOOD DEED PROJECT | $18,991 |
| COPING KIDS | $14,048 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF | $7,936 |
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, $486k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- TMTRUCKEE MEADOWS PARKS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +184% · 40% of their budget
- GBGREAT BASIN INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +256%
- WBWALKER BASIN CONSERVANCY7× · 2018–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +103%
Funded once
- NDNEVADA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $121k
- OLOUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $98k · revenue -65%
- MUMoxy Upone grant, 2022 · $31k
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.
Creating healthier choices for children & youth in reno county through mentoring, substance use prevention, and strengthening families.
Our membership is united in pursuit of immediate and continuous improvements to the state's education system. we support an ambitious, agressive and comprehensive reform agenda to dramatically increase the college and workforce readiness…
The organization is a coalition that dedicates assistance to various organizations for the purpose of maintaining a safe and healthy community in carson city nevada by preventing involvement in and reversing the effects of gangs, drugs,…
The mission of the eastern nevada landscape coalition is to restore the dynamic and diverse landscapes of the arid and semi-arid west for present and future generations through education, research, advocacy, partnerships, and the…
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
The nevada council on problem gambling is a non-profit information and referral agency whose efforts are focused on reducing the impact of problem gambling on individuals, families and communities in nevada. it is the mission of the 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…
Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.
The nevada state parks foundation is dedicated to enhancing and preserving the natural beauty, cultural heritage and recreational opportunities within the nevada division of state parks. the foundation is committed to supporting the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra and the most unlike its peers is Moxy Up. 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.
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 21 years old; the field is 8. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 37% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 29 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 TRUCKEE MEADOWS PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT BASIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WALKER BASIN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Nevada Outdoor School ↗
- Who funds NYE COMMUNITIES COALITION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY COMMUNITIES OF LYON AND STOREY COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds IMMUNIZE NEVADA ↗
- Who funds URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD DEED PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds Moxy Up ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds ST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADERS IN TRAINING ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds MESQUITE SENIOR GAMES INC ↗
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: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Union Pacific Foundation · Raiders Foundation Nv · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · Renown Health · United Way of Southern Nevada · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife 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 Nevada Volunteers 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.