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· 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.

$223k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$315kArts & Culture$90kHealth$89kPhilanthropy$75kAnimals$40kHuman Services$33kYouth Development$29kEducation$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $183,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $223,229 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,229 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$163k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION$50,000
TERRY LEE WELLS DISCOVERY MUSEUM$25,000
TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE TRUCKEE LIBRARY$15,000
SIERRA NEVADA CHILDRENS MUSEUM$15,000
CARE CHEST SIERRA NEVADA$15,000
HIGH FIVES FOUNDATION$15,000
FIRST TEE$10,000
CARSON ANIMAL SERVICES INITIATIVE (CASI)$6,500
RENO POLICE YOUTH EXPLORER$6,500
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FISH - FRIENDS IN SERVICE HELPING: $7k → 9%VITALITY VETERANS HOUSING: $6k → 9%CHILDREN'S CABINET: $9k → 10%CHILDREN'S CABINET: $9k → 10%CHILDREN'S CABINET: $8k → 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$289k · 7 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +121% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$289k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+121%
+41%

Still filing today

71%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthAnimalsCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • SN
    SOUTHERN NEVADA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +603%
  • TN
    THE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +5%
  • FO
    Friends of CASI
    7× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • PF
    PLAY FOR PINK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $59k · revenue +41%
  • EF
    Elko FISH
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -7%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
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
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
3
Fair Government Nevada

To promote fair government practices and for all other legal purposes

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4
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

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,…

Environment
5
Tahoe Community Foundation

The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.

Education
6
Nevada Wildlife Federation

The Nevada Wildlife Federation is the Oldest 501(c)(3) statewide conservation organization dedicated to sustaining Nevada's wildlife through conservation and education.

Animals
7
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
8
Nevada State Parks Foundation

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…

Environment
9
Nevada Land Trust

To preserve and protect the special places and open spaces of nevada for future generations.

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10
Nevada Gold Mines Heritage Fund
Philanthropy
11
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
12
Friends of Washoe
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION: $203,212 · Community ImprovementMARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION…THE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $75,000 · OtherTHE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUMRENO POLICE DEPARTMENT YOUTH EXPLORERS: $22,500 · OtherRENO POLICE DEPARTMENT YOUTH…RENO POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $13,000 · OtherRENO POLICE PROTECTIVE ASSOC…Individual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDAT…CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $15,000 · OtherCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADAFriends of the Truckee Library Inc: $15,000 · OtherFriends of the Truckee Libra…SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM: $15,000 · OtherSIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUS…SOUTHERN NEVADA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION: $92,288 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHERN NEVADA J…TRUCKEE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION: $19,500 · Youth DevelopmentTRUCKEE FOOTBALL …TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyTAHOE TRUCKE…PLAY FOR PINK INC: $59,070 · Crime & LegalPLAY FOR …Friends of CASI: $40,366 · AnimalsTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $25,953 · Human ServicesElko FISH: $6,554 · Human ServicesVITALITY UNLIMITED: $5,500 · Human Services
Community Improvement$203,212Other$177,000Youth Development$111,788Philanthropy$75,000Crime & Legal$59,070Animals$40,366Human Services$38,007

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 budgetMARTIS CAMP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION DBA MARTIS CAMP FOUNDATION: $203,212 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetSOUTHERN NEVADA JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION: $92,288 over 7y, 20% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $59,070 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of CASI: $40,366 over 7y, 15% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $25,953 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUCKEE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION: $19,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetElko FISH: $6,554 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Tahoe Community Found…Edna B & Bruno Benna …Martis Camp Community…Renown HealthCommunity Foundation …Pga Tour IncVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Tahoe Community FoundationNV15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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