California · Public charity
Tahoe Fund
To use the power of philanthropy to improve the Lake Tahoe environment for all to enjoy.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,907
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Tahoe Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $379k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 29 | $1.3M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $985k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $1.1M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $923k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $736k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $386k | 79% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $395k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $407k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Recreation & Sports$2.9MEnvironment$2.3MYouth Development$359kHealth$296kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kCommunity Improvement$70kPublic Benefit$53kAnimals$50kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association | $595,386 | 6 | 23% |
| Tahoe Rim Trail Association | $503,176 | 6 | 15% |
| Nevada Department of Health and Human Services | $382,580 | 4 | n/a |
| Tahoe Regional Planning Agenc | $291,983 | 6 | n/a |
| Lake Tahoe Community College Foundation | $290,650 | 3 | 10% |
| Tahoe Transportation Auth | $280,268 | 4 | n/a |
| CLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKE | $278,710 | 4 | 23% |
| Tahoe Resource Consv Distr | $253,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Achieve Tahoe | $201,667 | 3 | 5% |
| Agricultural Research Service (Usda) | $171,208 | 5 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association | $595,386 | 6 | 23% |
| Tahoe Rim Trail Association | $503,176 | 6 | 15% |
| Nevada Department of Health and Human Services | $382,580 | 4 | n/a |
| Tahoe Regional Planning Agenc | $291,983 | 6 | n/a |
| Lake Tahoe Community College Foundation | $290,650 | 3 | 10% |
| Tahoe Transportation Auth | $280,268 | 4 | n/a |
| CLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKE | $278,710 | 4 | 23% |
| Tahoe Resource Consv Distr | $253,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Achieve Tahoe | $201,667 | 3 | 5% |
| Agricultural Research Service (Usda) | $171,208 | 5 | n/a |
| Olsen&AsscPR dba Goodstanding | $156,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tahoe City PUD | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Tahoe Bicycle Coalition | $138,159 | 5 | 79% |
| Tahoe Backcountry Alliance | $130,000 | 4 | 46% |
| Sos Outreach | $130,000 | 4 | 2% |
| California Department of Parks and Recreation Candlestick Point State Recr | $123,622 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of Ski Run | $117,900 | 1 | 40% |
| Adventure Risk Challenge | $105,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Nevada Tahoe Conservaton Dist | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| California Tahoe Conservancy | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gateway Mountain Center Inc | $95,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Nevada Conservation League Ed Fund | $80,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Sierra Nevada Alliance | $76,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Tahoe Institute for Natural Science | $75,519 | 4 | 8% |
| Great Basin Institute | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Forest Foundation | $63,299 | 2 | 0% |
| Placer County of Air Polution Control Dist | $57,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lake Valley Firefighters Foundation | $56,007 | 1 | n/a |
| Glenbrook Underground Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Vp Data Commons | $50,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Incline Village-Crystal Bay Visitor & Conv Bureau | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | $45,907 | 2 | n/a |
| Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue Inc | $43,771 | 2 | 19% |
| Washoe County Sheriffis Hasty Team Inc | $42,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Stephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP | $41,130 | 1 | 1% |
| CA Dept of Forestry & Fire Pr | $40,960 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Nevada Reno Foundation | $38,875 | 1 | 0% |
| Restoring The Lake Depths Foundation Corp | $35,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Salo Sciences | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| No Tahoe Public Utility Distr | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nevada Nordic | $31,791 | 2 | 7% |
| Dri Research Foundation | $30,207 | 1 | 8% |
| Regents of the University of California | $26,105 | 1 | n/a |
| Wonder Labs LLC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| US Forest Service | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of California Davis | $23,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lake Tahoe Waterman Association Inc | $21,632 | 2 | 26% |
| Earthviews Conservation Society | $21,000 | 1 | 58% |
| Incline Village Crystal Bay Association | $20,000 | 1 | 6% |
| League to Save Lake Tahoe | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tahoe Forest Health System Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Barton Memorial Hospital Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Incline Education Fund | $19,850 | 1 | 9% |
| Sierra State Parks Foundation | $19,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Ccc Foundation | $19,389 | 1 | 4% |
| Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation | $15,840 | 1 | 1% |
| Girls on the Run - Sierras | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Incline Village GID | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Department of Transportation | $8,762 | 1 | n/a |
| The Courage Project | $7,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Scotty Lapp Foundation | $7,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Headwaters Science Institute | $7,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe | $6,780 | 2 | 0% |
| Douglas County Search and Rescue | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($166k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tahoe Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 38.
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.
Tahoe Community FoundationNV61.6× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Tahoe Community Foundation · Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation · The Lundrigan Walker Family Foundation · El Dorado Community Foundation · Pipkin Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Park L Loughlin Charitable Foundation · The Corrigan-Walla Foundation · Truettner Family Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority Inc
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About Tahoe Fund
- How much does Tahoe Fund give?
- Tahoe Fund reported 29 itemized grants totaling $1,338,315, out of $1,414,241 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Tahoe Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (46%), Environment (37%), Youth Development (6%).
- Who are Tahoe Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association ($595k), Tahoe Rim Trail Association ($503k), Nevada Department of Health and Human Services ($383k).
- Does Tahoe Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tahoe Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tahoe Community Foundation, Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation.
- Where is Tahoe Fund based?
- Tahoe Fund is based in CA.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home