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· Private foundation
ROBERT R BANKS FOUNDATION INC
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$134k
Granted FY2025
10
Grants
1
Communities
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0164% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Youth Development$417kRecreation & Sports$150kHuman Services$125kHealth$74kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$427k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
scoutschildren's
2020
renochildren's
2021
children's
2022
scouts
2023
scouts
2024
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2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS$40,000
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY$20,000
- MEFIYI FOUNDATION$15,000
- ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS$10,000
- CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA$10,000
- THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA$10,000
- THE CHILDRENS' CABINET$10,000
- BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN NEVADA$10,000
- FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONS$5,000
- CANINE REHABILITATION CENTER$4,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 20 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else
20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
20
9
Total granted
$1.1M
$66k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+132%
+282%
Still filing today
50%
22%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Youth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionOther
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 +153%
- MFMEFIYI FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- NDNV DISCOVERY MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $10k
- FBFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +71%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Boys and Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe
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…
Unclassified
2
Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Unclassified
3
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada
The Big Brothers Big Sisters Mission: Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
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4
Healthy Nevada
Health
5
Boys and Girls Club of the Northern
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.
Youth Development
6
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern
Fundraising to support the boys & girls clubs of southern nevada.
Youth Development
7
Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern
Our mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Youth Development
8
Boys and Girls Club of the Big Pines
Providing community youth with educational, cultural, social, and health and physical fitness activities.
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9
Nevada News Bureau Inc
We will change the face of journalism in nevada and establish new paradigms for nonprofit, community-supported news organizations.
Education
10
Cancer Council of Reno County Inc
Provide services and education to individuals and families of reno county affected by cancer
Health
11
Boys & Girls Club of Utah County Inc
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those from diverse circumstances to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens and leaders.
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12
Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma Valley
To provide positive opportunities for youth to learn and succeed
Youth Development
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 Truckee Meadows. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
12/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$426,800Youth Development$416,500Recreation & Sports$149,530Human Services$125,000Health$74,000Food & Nutrition$10,000
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 MEFIYI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS' CABINET ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds SAFE TALK FOR TEENS ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds RENO BIKE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOR KIDS 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.
The E L Cord FoundationNV26.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MEFIYI FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 860870628 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MEFIYI FOUNDATION, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Robert R Banks Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Robert R Banks Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
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