· Public charity
Reno-Tahoe Open Foundation
To organize an annual pga sanctioned golf tourament to leverage the highest ideals of golf to inspire and transform our community and envirornment and to focus attention on and support other local 501(c)(3) charties.
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 10 grants below total $183,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $223,229 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,229 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TERRY LEE WELLS DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SIERRA NEVADA CHILDRENS MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| CARE CHEST SIERRA NEVADA | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE TRUCKEE LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| HIGH FIVES FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FIRST TEE | $10,000 |
| RENO POLICE YOUTH EXPLORER | $6,500 |
| CARSON ANIMAL SERVICES INITIATIVE (CASI) | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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.
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 +121% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- SNSOUTHERN NEVADA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +603%
- TNTHE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +5%
- FOFriends of CASI7× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- PFPLAY FOR PINK INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $59k · revenue +41%
- EFElko FISHone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $7k
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.
To promote fair government practices and for all other legal purposes
The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…
The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.
The Nevada Wildlife Federation is the Oldest 501(c)(3) statewide conservation organization dedicated to sustaining Nevada's wildlife through conservation and education.
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…
To preserve and protect the special places and open spaces of nevada for future generations.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Casi. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 17 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 MARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN NEVADA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of CASI ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Truckee Library Inc ↗
- Who funds CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA ↗
- Who funds RENO POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Elko FISH ↗
- Who funds VITALITY UNLIMITED ↗
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: Tahoe Community Foundation · Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation · Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation · Renown Health · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Pga Tour Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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-Tahoe Open 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.