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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.

$559k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Recreation & Sports$1.5MHealth$219kArts & Culture$136kHuman Services$110kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kCrime & Legal$52kEducation$37kYouth Development$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $484,610, the rows itemized in this filing. The $559,016 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $74,406 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

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$15,507
Median grant
5
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund: $16k → 9%JUSTIN COWBOY CRISIS FUND: $15k → 9%HORSEMANSHIP FOR HEROES: $10k → 10%Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund: $12k → 9%HORSEMANSHIP FOR HEROES: $6k → 10%JUSTIN COWBOY CRISIS FUND: $12k → 9%Eddy House: $12k → 10%Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund: $9k → 9%EDDY HOUSE: $7k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S CABINET: $25k → 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 14 repeat orgs$308k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against -31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$1.9M
$287k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
-31%

Still filing today

71%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • RR
    Reno Rodeo Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +31% · 43% of their budget
  • MO
    MOMS ON THE RUN
    6× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +13%
  • CF
    Center for Adaptive Riding
    4× · 2021–2024 · $71k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • NW
    Nevada Western Heritage Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $130k
  • CO
    City of Sparks
    one grant, 2020 · $120k
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -31%
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
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
2
Safe Embrace

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…

Health
3
Reno Rescue Inc

To provide mounted and non-mounted experiential theraputic riding instruction to disadvantaged youth, the physically disabled and seniors

Animals
4
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
5
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
6
Nevada Casa Association Inc

The organization supports Nevada local CASA programs which recruit, train, retain and deploy volunteers to advocate for abused or neglected children.

Youth Development
7
Nevada Healthright

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.

Health
8
Zuma's Rescue Ranch

Zumas Rescue Ranch serves as an advocate and mentor for neglected horses and humans providing them with the trust and love they need to heal.Children, families and veterans grow to be productive members of the community through Zumas…

Animals
9
Westcare Nevada Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
10
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
11
Veteran Strong Usa

Veteran and 1st Reponders equine therapy

Public Benefit
12
Our Nevada Judges Inc
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Cabinet Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Reno Rodeo Foundation: $1,250,000 · OtherReno Rodeo FoundationNevada Western Heritage Foundation: $130,000 · OtherNevada Western Heritage FoundationCity of Sparks: $120,000 · OtherCity of SparksTRUCKEE MEADOWS FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC: $104,766 · OtherTRUCKEE MEADOWS FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC+6 more: $110,489 · Other+6 moreMOMS ON THE RUN: $81,142 · HealthMOMS ON TH…Center for Adaptive Riding: $71,031 · HealthCenter for…Lead with Horses: $41,645 · HealthLead with …Justin Cowboy Crisis Fund Inc: $63,895 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $25,251 · Human ServicesEDDY HOUSE: $19,073 · Human ServicesHORSEMANSHIP FOR HEROES: $15,910 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESPITE CARE OF NEVADA: $12,186 · Human ServicesNEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $66,375 · Public BenefitK DONAHUE FOUNDATION INC: $51,952 · Crime & LegalAwaken INC: $11,507 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,715,255Health$193,818Human Services$136,315Public Benefit$66,375Crime & Legal$51,952Housing & Shelter$11,507

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetReno Rodeo Foundation: $1,250,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetMOMS ON THE RUN: $81,142 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetCenter for Adaptive Riding: $71,031 over 4y, 13% of budgetNEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $66,375 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetJustin Cowboy Crisis Fund Inc: $63,895 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetK DONAHUE FOUNDATION INC: $51,952 over 5y, 14% of budgetLead with Horses: $41,645 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $25,251 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDDY HOUSE: $19,073 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHORSEMANSHIP FOR HEROES: $15,910 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFAMILY RESPITE CARE OF NEVADA: $12,186 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAwaken INC: $11,507 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET FOUNDATION INC: $6,423 over 1y, 1.2% 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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Nell J Redfield F…Thelma B & Thomas P H…Renown HealthNV Energy Charitable …Dermody Properties Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Northern NevadaNV21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Reno Rodeo Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reno Rodeo Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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.

    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 21 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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