· Private foundation
Sagebrush Chapter of Trout Unlimted
To protect, reconnect, restore & sustain all cold water fisheries, and their watersheds, in Northern Nevada & the eastern Sierra Nevada Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Nature Conservancy | $15,000 |
| Summit Lake Paiute Tribe | $11,000 |
| Alpine Watershed Group | $6,000 |
| Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful | $5,000 |
| Sierra Nevada Journeys | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,524 |
| Trout Unlimited | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Sagebrush Chapter of Trout Unlimted’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 58% of the giving stays in NV; by stated purpose, 47%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTROUT UNLIMITED INC3× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +133%
- AWALPINE WATERSHED GROUP3× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +109%
- SNSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS3× · 2017–2020 · $15k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- TNTHE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +25%
- NDNEVADA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $4k
- RWRiver Wranglersgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +93%
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.
The truckee river watershed council was founded to implement locally developed public-private collaborative solutions to protect and improve water quality and biological resources for the sustainable environmental and economic health of…
To advance the natural history, conservation and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education and outreach.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
To conduct land conservation, stewardship and education in the upper american river and upper cosumnes river watersheds
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
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: Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Straubel Family Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sagebrush Chapter of Trout Unlimted funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sagebrush Chapter of Trout Unlimted. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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