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The Nell J Redfield Foundation at a glance

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The Nell J Redfield Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
106
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$13MHealth$6.0MArts & Culture$4.1MYouth Development$1.7MHuman Services$1.6MRecreation & Sports$978kFood & Nutrition$543kHousing & Shelter$432kOther$0
02FY2025 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k73 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $125k → 10%Oneida County Senior Citizens Inc: $20k → 11%Oneida County Senior Citizens Inc: $15k → 11%ONEIDA COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $15k → 11%Oneida County Senior Citizens Inc: $15k → 11%Oneida County Senior Citizens Inc: $15k → 11%Oneida County Senior Citizens Inc: $15k → 11%Horsemanship for Heroes: $20k → 10%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE: $30k → 10%The 1701 Group: $30k → 10%Assistance League: $30k → 10%Assistance League: $30k → 10%Assistance League: $30k → 10%Assistance League: $30k → 10%The 1701 Group: $20k → 10%Good Shepherds Clothes Closet: $20k → 10%Good Shepherds Clothes Closet: $10k → 10%DISABILITY RESOURCES: $10k → 10%Good Shepherds Clothes Closet: $10k → 10%Good Shepherds Clothes Closet: $10k → 10%Good Shepherds Clothes Closet: $10k → 10%Good Shepherds Clothes Closet: $10k → 10%Good Shepherds Clothes Closet: $10k → 10%Good Shepherds Clothes Closet: $10k → 10%DISABILITY RESOURCES: $6k → 10%JustIn Hope Foundation: $20k → 10%Domestic Violence Resource Center (CAAW): $255k → 10%EDDY HOUSE: $200k → 10%Children's Cabinet: $30k → 10%Children's Cabinet: $30k → 10%Domestic Violence Resource Center (CAAW): $30k → 10%Children's Cabinet: $30k → 10%CHILDREN'S CABINET: $30k → 10%Children's Cabinet: $30k → 10%Children's Cabinet: $30k → 10%Eddy House: $25k → 10%Domestic Violence Resource Center (CAAW): $20k → 10%Eddy House: $20k → 10%Family Respite Care of Nevada: $18k → 10%Family Respite Care of Nevada: $18k → 10%Communities in Schools of Nevada: $15k → 10%Domestic Violence Resource Center (CAAW): $15k → 10%Domestic Violence Resource Center (CAAW): $10k → 10%Nevada Diabetes Association: $10k → 10%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER (CAAW): $10k → 10%Children's Cabinet: $10k → 10%NORTHERN NEVADA RAVE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%NORTHERN NEVADA RAVE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 77 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
23

Total granted

$28M
$978k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
0%

Still filing today

66%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UO
    University of Nevada Reno Foundation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $9.7M · revenue +35%
  • NN
    Northern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +59%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • NM
    NOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -41%
  • TM
    Truckee Meadows Community College
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • TE
    THE EMPOWERMENT CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +844%
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
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Community Services of Nevada

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

Housing & Shelter
3
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
4
Nevada Health Centers Inc

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…

Health
5
Westcare Nevada Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
6
Nevada Primary Care Association

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,…

Health
7
Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation

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…

Health
8
Nevada Children's Foundation Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Northeastern Nevada Historical Soci

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Nevada Succeeds

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…

—
11
Northern Nv Institute for Public Health Inc

To promote and develop public health leaders across nevada

—
12
Deaf Centers of 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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Chest Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 114 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
59/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Nevada Reno Foundation: $9,684,630 · EducationUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation+7 more: $841,600 · Education+7 moreWashoe County School District: $2,031,916 · OtherWashoe County School DistrictCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE: $1,140,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCERenown Health Foundation: $975,000 · OtherRenown Health FoundationPBS Reno (formerly KNPB): $825,000 · OtherPBS Reno (formerly KNPB)TMCC: $550,000 · OtherTHE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $360,000 · OtherFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $387,500 · Other+50 more: $4,290,083 · Other+50 moreNevada Museum of Art: $1,243,000 · Arts & CultureNevada Muse…RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $850,000 · Arts & CultureRENO PHILHA…THE HOLLAND PROJECT: $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HOLLAND…NOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES: $250,000 · Arts & CultureNOTE-ABLE M…SIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $230,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreNorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services: $1,390,000 · HealthNorthern …CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $548,492 · HealthCARE CHES…BRISTLECONE FAMILY RESOURCES: $195,000 · HealthBRISTLECO…+9 more: $255,000 · Health+9 moreDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $345,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada: $302,500 · Human ServicesEDDY HOUSE: $245,000 · Human ServicesTHE 1701 GROUP FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS: $230,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $205,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESPITE CARE OF NEVADA: $165,000 · Human ServicesTHE EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $125,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD'S CLOTHES CLOSET: $115,000 · Human ServicesONEIDA COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $110,000 · Human Services+7 more: $116,000 · Human ServicesSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $527,137 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS: $308,866 · Youth Development+4 more: $53,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $385,000 · Recreation & SportsTRUCKEE MEADOWS PARKS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsSierra Kids Foundation Inc: $57,500 · Recreation & SportsSky Tavern Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$10,526,230Other$10,559,499Arts & Culture$3,023,000Health$2,388,492Human Services$1,958,500Youth Development$889,503Recreation & Sports$527,500

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 budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $9,684,630 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetNorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services: $1,390,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $1,243,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE: $1,140,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetRenown Health Foundation: $975,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $850,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $548,492 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $527,137 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $387,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $385,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetTHE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $360,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $345,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetEDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY INC: $325,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS: $308,866 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada: $302,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOLLAND PROJECT: $300,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetGREAT BASIN INSTITUTE: $295,364 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES: $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetEDDY HOUSE: $245,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetTHE 1701 GROUP FKA ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF RENO-SPARKS: $230,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC: $205,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBRISTLECONE FAMILY RESOURCES: $195,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetENCOMPASS ACADEMY: $169,640 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetFAMILY RESPITE CARE OF NEVADA: $165,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetNorthern Nevada Literacy Council: $160,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetSIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetURBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS: $145,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetAwaken INC: $127,230 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $125,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetSTEP 2 INC: $124,800 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHEST INC: $115,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD'S CLOTHES CLOSET: $115,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetONEIDA COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS INC: $110,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFor Kids Foundation: $65,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTRUCKEE MEADOWS PARKS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetACCESS TO HEALTHCARE NETWORK INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSierra Kids Foundation Inc: $57,500 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEVADA: $43,528 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRiver Wranglers: $41,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetReno Chamber Orchestra Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetParkinson Support Center of Northern Nevada: $35,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHEATREWORKS OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $30,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetQuest Counseling & Consulting Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAnimal Ark Incorporated: $28,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSky Tavern Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …NV Energy Charitable …Dermody Properties Fo…The E L Cord Foundati…Robert Z Hawkins Foun…John Ben Snow Memoria…Thelma B & Thomas P H…Renown HealthPeek Family Charitabl…Minnie B Leonette Fam…Tahoe Community Found…The Marshall R Matley…
Community Foundation of Northern NevadaNV105.1× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Nell J Redfield Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nell J Redfield Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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
    31report 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 The Nell J Redfield Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Nell J Redfield Foundation 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 114 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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