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Straubel Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of Straubel Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Straubel Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $458k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $317k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $139k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $89,000 |
| HEALTH IN HARMONY | $50,000 |
| BROOKFIELD SCHOOL PTA | $40,000 |
| SAGE RIDGE SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CABINET | $25,000 |
| MIDWEST RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION | $23,750 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE | $23,082 |
| DRI FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN NEVADA | $15,000 |
| PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE | $15,000 |
| FOOD FOR THOUGHT | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SRSAGE RIDGE SCHOOL3× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +31%
Rocky Mountain Institute3× · 2018–2020 · $121k · revenue +313%- EGECHOING GREEN INC2× · 2018–2019 · $65k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- EHEDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $15k
- MAMIT ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +67%
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.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
To advance the natural history, conservation and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education and outreach.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.
To connect young people to the wonder and science of the natural world, igniting self-discovery and inspiring stewardship of our planet.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The glacier national park conservancy works to preserve and protect glacier national park for future generations.
To educate and support underserved and economically distressed entrepreneurs through new entrepreneur training, incubation, and technical assistance, with a sector focus on food and forest enterprises.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Storey County Senior Citizens Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 38 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 GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SAGE RIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ECHOING GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds Health in Harmony ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Food for Thought Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Climate Defense Project ↗
- Who funds PEACE OF MIND DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT BASIN OUTDOOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC FUND ↗
- Who funds GREAT BASIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds KEEP TRUCKEE MEADOWS BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds STOREY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM CONTINUUM INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · The E L Cord Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sagebrush Chapter of Trout Unlimted · Greater Nevada Credit Union · Helen Close Charitable Foundation · Charles H Stout Foundation · Renown Health
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 Straubel Family Foundation 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.
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
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.