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Tahoe Mountain Resorts Environmental Fund at a glance

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Tahoe Mountain Resorts Environmental Fund

The foundation exists to lessen the burden of government for communities located in the town of truckee, nevada county, california.

$169k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$508kPublic Safety & Disaster$191kRecreation & Sports$143kArts & Culture$20kFood & Nutrition$10kHousing & Shelter$10kEducation$6k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $143,758, the rows itemized in this filing. The $168,758 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUCKEE RIVER WATERSHED COUNC$50,000
ARTS FOR SCHOOLS$20,000
CLEAN UP THE CAYES$17,567
TAHOE RIM TRAIL ASSOC$10,000
ADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE$10,000
SIERRA WATERSHED COUNC$10,000
AMI HOUSING INC$10,000
ROCKER MEMORIAL SKATE PARK$10,000
ACHIEVE TAHOE$6,191
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%BIKING FOR A BETTER WORLD: $8k → 6%NORTHSTAR FIRE DEPARTMENT: $174k → 11%TAHOE RIM TRAIL ASSOC: $10k → 8%ARTS FOR SCHOOLS: $20k → 6%TROUT UNLIMITED: $13k → 11%TAHOE RIM TRAIL ASSOC: $10k → 8%KINGS BEACH ELEMENTARY PACE: $6k → 6%TROUT UNLIMITED: $12k → 11%TAHOE RIM TRAIL ASSOC: $10k → 8%TAHOE NORDIC SEARCH & RESCUE: $10k → 6%TROUT UNLIMITED: $10k → 11%TAHOE RIM TRAIL ASSOC: $10k → 8%SIERRA WATERSHED COUNC: $10k → 6%TROUT UNLIMITED: $10k → 11%TAHOE RIM TRAIL ASSOC: $10k → 8%SIERRA WATERSHED COUNC: $10k → 6%ROCKER MEMORIAL SKATE PARK: $10k → 11%TAHOE RIM TRAIL ASSOC: $10k → 8%SIERRA WATERSHED COUNC: $9k → 6%TROUT UNLIMITED: $8k → 11%CLEAN UP THE CAYES: $25k → 8%TAHOE NORDIC SEARCH & RESCUE: $8k → 6%CLEAN UP THE CAYES: $18k → 8%TAHOE FUND: $7k → 6%CLEAN UP THE CAYES: $10k → 8%SIERRA WATERSHED COUNC: $6k → 6%AMI HOUSING INC: $10k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 30% of Tahoe Mountain Resorts Environmental Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 68%.

Tahoe Mountain Resorts Environmental Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 20% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$637k · 8 repeat orgs$250k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +129% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$637k
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+129%
-3%

Still filing today

88%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsInternationalRecreation & SportsEducationHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TR
    Truckee River Watershed Council
    7× · 2018–2024 · $360k · revenue +212%
  • TR
    Tahoe Rim Trail Association
    6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +129%
  • TU
    TROUT UNLIMITED INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $53k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • NF
    NORTHSTAR FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $174k
  • TF
    TAHOE FOOD HUB
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • BF
    BIKING FOR A BETTER WORLD INC
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -69%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Clean Tahoe Program

To improve the visual quality of the Tahoe Basin portion of El Dorado County through community education, citizen involvement and enforcecment of litter and nuisance ordinances.

Environment
2
Tahoe Youth Sports Development
Recreation & Sports
3
Sierra State Parks Foundation

The Sierra State Parks Foundation provides critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Donner Sierra State Parks for Education, Restoration, and Cultural and Environmental Preservation in partnership with…

Recreation & Sports
4
Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association

TAMBA is dedicated to the stewardship of sustainable, multiple-use trails and to preserving access for mountain bikers through advocacy, education and promotion of responsible trail use. TAMBA is primarily a trail building…

Recreation & Sports
5
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

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.

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6
Tahoe Backcountry Alliance

The Tahoe Backcountry Alliance is the voice for the human-powered winter backcountry community in the Lake Tahoe area, advocating for and informing our community about critical issues affecting winter backcountry recreation in and around…

Environment
7
Tahoe Institute for Natural Science

To advance the natural history, conservation and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education and outreach.

Environment
8
Sierra Streams Institute

To promote community stewardship and advance scientific knowledge of watersheds through reserarch, monitoring and education for the benefit of the Sierra Nevada region and beyond.

Environment
9
Tahoe Cross Country Ski Education Association Inc

The Tahoe Cross Country Ski Education Association's (TCCSEA) mission is to promote the sport of cross country skiing through educational activities for children and adults in the North Lake Tahoe/Truckee region of Northern…

Recreation & Sports
10
Friends of Washoe
Animals
11
League to Save Lake Tahoe

Mission statement: the league to save lake tahoe protects and restores the environmental health, sustainability, and scenic beauty of the lake tahoe basin. we focus on water quality and its clarity for the preservation of a pristine lake…

Religion
12
Tahoe Maritime Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Fund; the most unlike its peers is Kings Beach Elementary Pace. 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

14 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. 14 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Truckee River Watershed Council: $360,000 · EnvironmentTruckee River Watershed CouncilCLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKE: $52,567 · EnvironmentCLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKESierra Watershed Education Partnerships: $34,949 · EnvironmentSierra Watershed Education Partnerships+2 more: $13,400 · EnvironmentNORTHSTAR FIRE DEPARTMENT: $173,880 · OtherNORTHSTAR FIRE DEPARTMENTREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $40,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIF…ACHIEVE TAHOE: $19,036 · OtherACHIEVE TAHOETAHOE NORDIC SEARCH & RESCUE INC: $17,500 · OtherTAHOE NORDIC SEARCH & RESCUE INCROCKER MEMORIAL SKATE PARK: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $13,000 · OtherTahoe Rim Trail Association: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $52,667 · AnimalsArts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall: $20,000 · EducationTAHOE FOOD HUB: $10,000 · Food & NutritionAdvocates for the Mentally Ill Housing- Placer Inc: $10,000 · Health
Environment$460,916Other$273,416Recreation & Sports$60,000Animals$52,667Education$20,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTruckee River Watershed Council: $360,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetTahoe Rim Trail Association: $60,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $52,667 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKE: $52,567 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetSierra Watershed Education Partnerships: $34,949 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetArts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall: $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetACHIEVE TAHOE: $19,036 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTAHOE NORDIC SEARCH & RESCUE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetTAHOE FOOD HUB: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAdvocates for the Mentally Ill Housing- Placer Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetBIKING FOR A BETTER WORLD INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTAHOE FUND: $7,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTruckee Trails Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKINGS BEACH ELEMENTARY PACE: $5,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budget
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.

Tahoe Truckee Communi…Martis Camp Community…Tahoe Community Found…The Lundrigan Walker …The Corrigan-Walla Fo…Mightycause Charitabl…Tahoe FundClif Family FoundationMarin Community Found…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
Tahoe Truckee Community FoundationCA28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · The Lundrigan Walker Family Foundation · The Corrigan-Walla Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Tahoe Fund · Clif Family Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tahoe Mountain Resorts Environmental Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tahoe Mountain Resorts Environmental Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Tahoe Mountain Resorts Environmental Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Tahoe Mountain Resorts Environmental Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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