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Reno Rotary Foundation

To serve as a steward of charitable efforts which support the mission of the rotary club of reno.

$177k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$287kYouth Development$75kInternational$35kArts & Culture$22kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kCrime & Legal$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $34,970, the rows itemized in this filing. The $176,770 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $141,800 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.
$19,970
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$19,970
WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $35k → 10%EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY: $30k → 10%TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $28k → 10%EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY: $25k → 10%TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%TMCC FOUNDATION: $16k → 10%LEMELSON STEM ACADEMY: $15k → 10%WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15k → 10%TMCC FOUNDATION: $14k → 10%UNR FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%GLENN DUNCAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $6k → 10%ACHIEVEMENT BEYOND OBSTACLES: $8k → 10%WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $6k → 10%CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $22k → 10%SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $15k → 10%TRU VISTA FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 10%GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL: $8k → 10%ROTRY DISTRICT 5190 COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 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.

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.

Sub-Saharan Africa$60k · 64% · 2 grants

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

Central America and the Caribbean$18k · 19% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FOR SPECIAL NEEDS ORPHANAGE IN PANAMA

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$10k · 11% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: FUNDING OF ROMANIA HOSPITAL GLOBAL GRANT# GG#2567571

East Asia and the Pacific$6k · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: FIRST ROTARY PEACE FELLOW TO ATTEND OXBRIDGE DIPOMATIC ACADEMY IN CAMBRIDGE

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$275k · 4 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$275k
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+31%

Still filing today

50%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TM
    TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $142k · revenue +35%
  • WC
    WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    3× · 2022–2025 · $56k
  • EA
    EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $55k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • RI
    ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ROTARY CLUB OF RENOgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $52k · revenue +191% · 36% of their budget
  • C5
    CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
    one grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue -4%
  • SN
    SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +3%
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
Truckee Rotary Community Foundation

Support of local charities and community programs

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2
Charitable Foundation of the Rotary Club of Tacoma North State
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3
Reno Rotary Foundation

To serve as a steward of charitable efforts which support the mission of the rotary club of reno.

Education
4
Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to support the local and international communities through donations to educational, community and international charities.

Community Improvement
5
Rotary Club of Fresno Foundation

The Foundation was established to raise funds for the purpose of contributing to charitable and educational organizations in the local, national, and international community.

Community Improvement
6
Nevada Scottish Rite Foundation
Membership Benefit
7
Rotary Club of Carson City Foundation

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…

Community Improvement
8
Thompson R2-J Education Foundation

Exceptional educational experiences for students and educators in the thompson school district.

Education
9
Rotary Club of Aurora Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Point West Rotary Club Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
11
Educate Nevada Now

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…

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12
Wilmington Rotary Charitable Fund

To enable Rotarians to advance the support of education through scholarships.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truckee Meadows Community College Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $142,178 · EducationTRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONEDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY INC: $54,700 · EducationEDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY INCTHE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL: $8,000 · EducationACHIEVEIMENT BEYOND OBSTACLES: $7,700 · Education+1 more: $6,000 · EducationWASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $55,500 · OtherWASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTROTARY INTERNATIONAL ROTARY CLUB OF RENO: $51,852 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONAL ROTARY CLUB OF REN…Individual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLEMELSON STEM ACADEMY: $15,000 · OtherLEMELSON STEM ACADEMYTru Vista Foundation Inc: $8,000 · OtherGLENN DUNCAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $6,000 · OtherTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $24,583 · InternationalCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $21,500 · Arts & CultureSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentROTARY DISTRICT 5190 COMMUNITY FUND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWESTPORT ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Education$218,578Other$158,852International$24,583Arts & Culture$21,500Youth Development$15,000Philanthropy$10,000Community Improvement$10,000

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 budgetTRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $142,178 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetEDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY INC: $54,700 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL ROTARY CLUB OF RENO: $51,852 over 1y, 36% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $24,583 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $21,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTru Vista Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL: $8,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetACHIEVEIMENT BEYOND OBSTACLES: $7,700 over 1y, 10% 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.

Community Foundation …The Nell J Redfield F…The E L Cord Foundati…NV Energy Charitable …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Northern NevadaNV15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%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
    1get 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 16 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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