How much does Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation give?

Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation reported 64 itemized grants totaling $5,022,558, out of $9,334,002 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 67 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (25%), Youth Development (13%), Human Services (13%).

Who are Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Crisis Intervention Services Dba Sierra Community House ($2.3M), Gateway Mountain Center Inc ($1.5M), Tahoe Truckee Unified School District ($1.1M).

Does Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tahoe Community Foundation, Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation, Tahoe Fund.

Where is Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation based?

Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation is based in CA.

Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation

Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Community foundation

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.

$9.3M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.0M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$5.5MYouth Development$2.9MHuman Services$2.8MEducation$2.6MRecreation & Sports$1.5MArts & Culture$1.4MHealth$1.0MAnimals$859kOther$0

02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 64 grants below total $5,022,558, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,334,002 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,311,444 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 · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $51k
$10k–50k34 grants · $674k
$50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
$250k+5 grants · $2.8M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$46M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
HEADWATERS SCIENCE INSTITUTE	$108,443
JUNIPER HILLS PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION	$108,443
FEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST	$100,000
SCOTTY LAPP FOUNDATION	$93,443
COURAGE PROJECT	$93,443
TAHOE AREA MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSOCIATION	$93,443
TAHOE WATERMAN FOUNDATION	$93,443
SUGAR BOWL SKI RESORT	$87,375
SIERRA WATERSHED EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS	$80,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$19M · 105 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105

Total granted

$19M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%

+41%

Still filing today

71%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $980k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

CI
CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE
5× · 2020–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +24%
GM
GATEWAY MOUNTAIN CENTER INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +174%
SI
SIERRA INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT
2× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +72%

Funded once

NT
NORTH TAHOE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT
one grant, 2023 · $175k
NC
NEVADA COUNTY OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES
one grant, 2022 · $100k
LT
LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +97%

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.

The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment

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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Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce

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.

—

Tahoe Youth Sports Development

Recreation & Sports

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

Sonoma Mountain Institute

Environment

Mltpa Foundation

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.

Environment

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.

Philanthropy

Nevada Nordic

Community-supported, xc ski/multi-use venues N Lake Tahoe.

Recreation & Sports

Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship

Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship is creating and maintaining world-class trails responsibly, sustainably, and collectively.

Environment

Bear Yuba Land Trust

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.

Environment

The Jmt Wilderness Conservancy

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.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Fund; the most unlike its peers is Aim High. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

126 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

120/126

Grantees still filing

92/126

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$12,202,736Environment$2,505,054Recreation & Sports$2,153,685Youth Development$1,890,278Science & Tech$1,336,497Education$979,177Arts & Culture$801,766

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.

Tahoe Community FoundationNV96.8× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Truckee Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

39report 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.

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