· Public charity
Reno Rodeo Association
The organization's mission is to produce the greatest rodeo in the world and through doing that honor our state's western heritage, promote the sport of rodeo, and give back to the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $484,610 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $559,016 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $74,406 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RENO RODEO FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| TRUCKEE MEADOWS FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION | $60,311 |
| NEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE | $20,200 |
| MAN UP CRUSADE | $16,216 |
| MOMS ON THE RUN | $15,535 |
| LEAD WITH HORSES | $15,507 |
| JUSTIN COWBOY CRISIS FUND | $12,000 |
| AWAKEN | $11,507 |
| HORSEMANSHIP FOR HEROES | $9,625 |
| PEER SUPPORT NETWORK | $9,159 |
| WASHOE COUNTY 4-H | $8,550 |
| PRCA WILDERNESS CIRCUIT | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +79% since the first grant, against -31% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- RRReno Rodeo Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +31% · 43% of their budget
- MOMOMS ON THE RUN6× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +13%
- CFCenter for Adaptive Riding4× · 2021–2024 · $71k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- NWNevada Western Heritage Foundationone grant, 2021 · $130k
- COCity of Sparksone grant, 2020 · $120k
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -31%
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.
Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.
Safe Embrace is committed to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence with innovative prevention and intervention services. We help victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking become survivors by providing…
To provide mounted and non-mounted experiential theraputic riding instruction to disadvantaged youth, the physically disabled and seniors
Nevada HealthRight exists to serve the forensic healthcare needs of Nevada residents and visitors by providing excellence in clinical forensic healthcare services, violence prevention, education, and research.
Regenerative Ranch Foundation supports at-risk youth and their families by providing regenerative relationship-centered services that address trauma through complementary therapies immersive learning and whole-family support in partnership…
Annual NRHCA Event held in Reno, Nevada. Horse and rider competition in heard rein and fence work.
The organization supports Nevada local CASA programs which recruit, train, retain and deploy volunteers to advocate for abused or neglected children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Cabinet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Horsemanship for Heroes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 21 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 Reno Rodeo Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOMS ON THE RUN ↗
- Who funds Center for Adaptive Riding ↗
- Who funds NEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds K DONAHUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lead with Horses ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HORSEMANSHIP FOR HEROES ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESPITE CARE OF NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Awaken INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET FOUNDATION 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: Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Renown Health · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Reno Rodeo Association 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.