· Public charity
Reno Rotary Foundation
To serve as a steward of charitable efforts which support the mission of the rotary club of reno.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $34,970 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $176,770 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $141,800 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $19,970 |
| WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Grants abroad, by region — $94k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: JOB TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL FORUM FOR HIV/AIDS AWARENESS AS WELL AS GENITAL MUTILATION TEENAGERS · BWINDI VISION AND DENTAL CLINIC, SKILLS LAB, HANWASH PROGRAM IN UGANDA
Stated purpose: PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FOR SPECIAL NEEDS ORPHANAGE IN PANAMA
Stated purpose: FUNDING OF ROMANIA HOSPITAL GLOBAL GRANT# GG#2567571
Stated purpose: FIRST ROTARY PEACE FELLOW TO ATTEND OXBRIDGE DIPOMATIC ACADEMY IN CAMBRIDGE
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $142k · revenue +35%
- WCWASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT3× · 2022–2025 · $56k
- EAEDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $55k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- RIROTARY INTERNATIONAL ROTARY CLUB OF RENOgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $52k · revenue +191% · 36% of their budget
- C5CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INCone grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue -4%
- SNSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYSone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +3%
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.
Support of local charities and community programs
To serve as a steward of charitable efforts which support the mission of the rotary club of reno.
The purpose of the foundation is to support the local and international communities through donations to educational, community and international charities.
The Foundation was established to raise funds for the purpose of contributing to charitable and educational organizations in the local, national, and international community.
The Foundation's primary purpose is to support other 501(c)(3) organizations and to provide scholarships and stipends to students in colleges or universities. The Foundation also issues cash awards to local teachers, schools and the local…
Exceptional educational experiences for students and educators in the thompson school district.
To establish and maintain a perpetual trust fund to assist in the support of charitable purposes in the sacramento, ca area customarily supported by the rotary club of point west; to encourage avenues of financial support to rotary club…
Educate Nevada Now (ENN) is a non-partisan education policy organization focused on ensuring that every Nevada child has access to a quality education, regardless of their family income or circumstances. ENN strives to make fair and…
To enable Rotarians to advance the support of education through scholarships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truckee Meadows Community College Foundation 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.
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ROTARY CLUB OF RENO ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds ROTARY DISTRICT 5190 COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Tru Vista Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEIMENT BEYOND OBSTACLES ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
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 · The E L Cord Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · 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 Rotary 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.
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.