· Private foundation
The Nell J Redfield Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k73 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNR Foundation | $500,000 |
| Education Alliance of Washoe County | $325,000 |
| UNR Foundation | $320,000 |
| UNR Foundation | $250,000 |
| UNR Foundation | $150,000 |
| PBS Reno (formerly KNPB) | $130,000 |
| Reno Philharmonic | $125,000 |
| Renown Health Foundation | $125,000 |
| UNR Foundation | $120,000 |
| UNR Foundation | $100,000 |
| Community Health Alliance | $100,000 |
| Nevada Museum of Art | $100,000 |
| Nevada Museum of Art | $81,000 |
| CARE Chest | $80,000 |
| Nevada Discovery Museum | $75,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +67% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 12 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k 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
- UOUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation7× · 2019–2025 · $9.7M · revenue +35%
- NNNorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +59%
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +128%
Funded once
- NMNOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -41%
- TMTruckee Meadows Community Collegeone grant, 2022 · $250k
- TETHE EMPOWERMENT CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +844%
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.
CSNV is engaged in comprehensive community development projects that promote neighborhood revitalization and economic development, community education and civic action, housing, development; cultural awareness, equity and
NVHC provides health services throughout the State of Nevada. Health services include OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Primary medical, Behavioral Health and dental care services. NVHC operates a mobile mammography clinic, two mobile…
To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.
As nevada's federally designated primary care association, nvpca promotes access to affordable, comprehensive & quality health care for nevada's underserved populations. we support & advocate on behalf of member community health centers,…
To provide social, emotional, educational, and psychological support and programs to families of all children diagnosed with life threatening or critical illnesses and provide healing arts and wellness programs to adults touched by cancer…
To support programs providing the highest quality service to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. these services include a residential program at eagle valley children's home and a respite program provided in the…
Northeastern nevada historcial society is dedicated to the preservation of the hertitage, culture, and natural history of northeastern nevada. our ongoing goals are to establish a western art center and nourish the western culture that…
Our membership is united in pursuit of immediate and continuous improvements to the state's education system. we support an ambitious, agressive and comprehensive reform agenda to dramatically increase the college and workforce readiness…
To promote and develop public health leaders across nevada
To make a difference in the lives of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community of Nevada through advocacy, education and serving the diverse community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Chest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reno Jazz Orchestra. 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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 115 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 University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds Northern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Renown Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada ↗
- Who funds THE HOLLAND PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GREAT BASIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE 1701 GROUP FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTLECONE FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESPITE CARE OF NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Northern Nevada Literacy Council ↗
- Who funds SIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS ↗
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 · Dermody Properties Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Renown Health · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · Minnie B Leonette Family Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · The Marshall R Matley 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 The Nell J Redfield 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.
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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