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Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation
The TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION brings together trusted partners to align strategies and inspire philanthropy to nurture a resilient community and environment.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 64 grants below total $5,022,558 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,334,002 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,311,444 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $674k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIERRA INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT | $1,000,000 |
| GATEWAY MOUNTAIN CENTER | $792,500 |
| SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE | $359,157 |
| REYES GENERAL CONSTRUCTION LLC | $350,000 |
| KIDZONE MUSEUM | $335,000 |
| BLUE FOREST | $150,000 |
| JUNIPER HILLS PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION | $108,443 |
| HEADWATERS SCIENCE INSTITUTE | $108,443 |
| FEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST | $100,000 |
| SCOTTY LAPP FOUNDATION | $93,443 |
| TAHOE AREA MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSOCIATION | $93,443 |
| COURAGE PROJECT | $93,443 |
| TAHOE WATERMAN FOUNDATION | $93,443 |
| SUGAR BOWL SKI RESORT | $87,375 |
| SIERRA WATERSHED EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS | $80,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
105 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 15 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $980k 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
- CICRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE5× · 2020–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +24%
- GMGATEWAY MOUNTAIN CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +174%
- SISIERRA INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT2× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +72%
Funded once
- NTNORTH TAHOE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $175k
- NCNEVADA COUNTY OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $100k
- LTLAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +97%
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.
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.
A membership organization dedicated to developing, promoting, and serving your business and community. Our goal is to sustain a high quality of life by achieving economic vitality, with sensitivity and respect for the environment.
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.
To plan, steward, interpret, promote, and sustain a system of four-season trails and public access to natural areas in the Mammoth Lakes and Eastern Sierra Nevada region in the state of California while protecting its natural resources.
Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship is creating and maintaining world-class trails responsibly, sustainably, and collectively.
Community-supported, xc ski/multi-use venues N Lake Tahoe.
Bear Yuba Land Trust exists to conserve and protect the natural, working, and cultural lands in the Bear and Yuba River watersheds and empower a healthy, resilient community through nature access and education.
Working to restore the watersheds, wilderness, and wildlife in the high sierra nevada following the john muir trail (est. 1915) for all life in california.
The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Fund and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
126 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. 126 of the 179 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 CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY MOUNTAIN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tahoe Cross Country Ski Education Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE ↗
- Who funds Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Truckee River Watershed Council ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAKE TAHOE RESORT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SUGAR BOWL SKI TEAM & ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEADWATERS SCIENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Courage Project ↗
- Who funds Scotty Lapp Foundation ↗
- Who funds Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association ↗
- Who funds Stephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP ↗
- Who funds SLOW FOOD LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds BLUE FOREST FINANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN MUIR HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MANA ↗
- Who funds ARTS COLLABORATIVE OF NEVADA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION ↗
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: Tahoe Community Foundation · Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation · Tahoe Fund · The Corrigan-Walla Foundation · Tahoe Mountain Resorts Foundation · The Martis Fund · Rdh Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · The Lundrigan Walker Family Foundation · Tahoe Mountain Resorts Environmental Fund · Park L Loughlin Charitable Foundation
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 Tahoe Truckee Community 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.
- Chill Foundation — 0% 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.
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