· Private foundation
Robert R Banks Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS' CABINET | $10,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +132% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- MVMASON VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2017 · $10k
- FBFood Bank of Northern Nevada Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +39%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA DE VIDA ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert R Banks Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert R Banks Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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