· Private foundation
Robert R Banks Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS | $40,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY | $20,000 |
| MEFIYI FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS' CABINET | $10,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $10,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS | $10,000 |
| CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA | $10,000 |
| FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONS | $5,000 |
| CANINE REHABILITATION CENTER | $4,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% 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 +132% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY7× · 2019–2025 · $195k · revenue +47%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +37%
- T1THE 1701 GROUP FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +216%
Funded once
- NDNV DISCOVERY MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $10k
- TWTERRY WELLS NV DISCOVERY MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $10k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +168%
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.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada (BBBSN) is a non-profit 501(c) 3 corporation that is a leader in youth mentoring services. Since 1971, BBBSN has been developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on…
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…
The mission of the Club is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe has been a cornerstone of the…
The nevada kids foundation is a children's non profit that provides essential items and resources to the struggling youth in our communities. our goal is to empower children to live a life with greater hope, freedom, and opportunities for…
Our mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To support programs providing the highest quality service to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. these services include a residential program at eagle valley children's home and a respite program provided in the…
The boys & girls club's mission is to inspire and enable all youth of the northern cheyenne nation and surrounding areas to be productive citizens.
Jobs for nevadas graduates has a mission to empower young people with the skills and support to succeed in education, employment, and life.
Nevada child seekers mission is to advocate for and engage in prevention, identification and location efforts on behalf of missing and exploited children.
To promote fair government practices and for all other legal purposes
Our membership is united in pursuit of immediate and continuous improvements to the state's education system. we support an ambitious, agressive and comprehensive reform agenda to dramatically increase the college and workforce readiness…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Cabinet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Club of Mason Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds THE 1701 GROUP FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS ↗
- Who funds MEFIYI ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE TALK FOR TEENS ↗
- Who funds For Kids Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEVADA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 329 ↗
- Who funds RENO BIKE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA DE VIDA ↗
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: The E L Cord Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Roxie and Azad Joseph Foundation · William N Pennington Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Renown Health · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Minnie B Leonette Family Foundation · The Bretzlaff Foundation Inc · Helen Close Charitable 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 Robert R Banks Foundation Inc 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.
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