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The Scheffel Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$52k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Philanthropy$12MHealth$611kYouth Development$332kHuman Services$191kEnvironment$142kFood & Nutrition$134kAnimals$89kArts & Culture$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $102k
$4,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$52,000
RENOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
NEVADA MUESEUM OF ART$37,500
THE EDDY HOUSE$10,000
KENNY GUINN CENTER FOR POLICY PRIORITIES$5,000
HORSEMANSHIP FOR HEROES$4,500
FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA$2,000
NATIONAL SECURITY FORUM OF NORTHERN NEVADA$1,001
CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION$1,000
EAST GRASSLAND WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION$1,000
ARTOWN$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%EAST BAY INTEGRATED CARE: $5k → 9%MAKE A DIFFERENCE OUTDOORS: $5k → 19%CRISIS FOOD CENTER: $25k → 12%HORSEMANSHIP FOR HEROES: $10k → 10%SAFE FAMILIES NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40k → 9%MAKE A DIFFERENCE OUTDOORS: $3k → 19%CRISIS FOOD CENTER: $25k → 12%HORSEMANSHIP FOR HEROES: $5k → 10%EYE THRIVE: $20k → 11%EYE CARE CHARITY OF MID-AMERICA: $20k → 11%VACATIONS FOR WARRIORS: $15k → 3%VACATIONS FOR WARRIORS: $5k → 3%EDDY HOUSE: $15k → 10%THE EDDY HOUSE: $10k → 10%THE EDDY HOUSE: $5k → 10%THE EDDY HOUSE: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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CA
CO
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 29 repeat orgs$543k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
27

Total granted

$13M
$489k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+11%

Still filing today

76%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

  • RH
    Renown Health Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +547%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $90k · revenue +123%
  • AR
    AGING RESOURCES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY
    2× · 2019–2021 · $80k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FUND OF WESTERN NV
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • DF
    Dogs For Our Brave Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $67k · revenue +100%
  • SR
    SAFE REFUGE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue -27%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Renown Health

Renown Health makes a genuine difference in the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.

Health
3
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
4
Carson Valley Health Foundation

None

Health
5
Northern Nevada Children's Cancer Foundation

The foundation's mission is to enhance the quality of life for children with cancer and their families by providing financial assistance and compassionate support programs while advocating for increased research funds and raising public…

Philanthropy
6
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
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 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
9
Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation

To nurture the spirit of generosity and volunteerism of the community, we focus our philanthropic efforts in fostering quality healthcare of the highest standards for Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital.

Health
10
Nevada Veterans Foundation

Nevada veterans foundation's mission is to help improve quality of life for members of the military, military retirees, veterans and their families in the state of nevada.

Public Benefit
11
Nevada Cancer Research Foundation Inc

Cancer research.

Health
12
Neighbor Network of Northern Nevada

N4 connects northern nevadans for inclusive, community-based services, volunteer opportunities, and affordable transportation

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eddy House and the most unlike its peers is Crisis Food Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity Arts CentersSchool District FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Military Veterans SupportVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Domestic Violence ServicesCancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterEquine Therapy Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%47%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,520

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
28/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHARLES SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUND — $5,690,963 · OtherCHARLES SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUNDVANGUARD DONOR ADVISED FUND — $5,688,288 · OtherVANGUARD DONOR ADVISED FUND+30 more — $783,822 · Other+30 moreNorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services — $253,891 · HealthAGING RESOURCES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY — $80,000 · HealthEQUINE-ASSISTED THERAPY INC — $66,700 · HealthLEUKEMIA 24-7 — $65,000 · HealthHAVENHOUSE ST LOUIS — $45,000 · HealthTREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $25,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · HealthCRISIS FOOD CENTER INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesSAFE REFUGE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $40,000 · Human ServicesEYE THRIVE — $40,000 · Human ServicesEDDY HOUSE — $33,500 · Human ServicesVACATIONS FOR WARRIORS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHORSEMANSHIP FOR HEROES — $14,500 · Human ServicesMAKE A DIFFERENCE OUTDOORS — $9,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesPACIFIC FLYWAY FUND — $75,000 · Arts & CultureNevada Museum of Art — $42,500 · Arts & CultureRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC — $5,500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureDogs For Our Brave Inc — $67,000 · Public BenefitCODE 3 RESPONSE — $25,000 · Public BenefitKENNY GUINN CENTER FOR POLICY PRIORITIES — $7,500 · Public BenefitLAND OF LINCOLN HONOR FLIGHT INC — $5,000 · Public Benefit+1 more — $1,001 · Public BenefitBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentNOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS — $80,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $4,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$12,163,073Health$536,091Human Services$212,000Arts & Culture$126,000Public Benefit$105,501Youth Development$90,000Food & Nutrition$84,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services — $253,891 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRenown Health Foundation — $110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC — $90,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetAGING RESOURCES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY — $80,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetNOURISH MEALS ON WHEELS — $80,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPACIFIC FLYWAY FUND — $75,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetDogs For Our Brave Inc — $67,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetEQUINE-ASSISTED THERAPY INC — $66,700 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetLEUKEMIA 24-7 — $65,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetCRISIS FOOD CENTER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHAVENHOUSE ST LOUIS — $45,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetNevada Museum of Art — $42,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE REFUGE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEYE THRIVE — $40,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEDDY HOUSE — $33,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSierra Nevada College — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOUGLAS LAND CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCODE 3 RESPONSE — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetVACATIONS FOR WARRIORS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Northern Nevada — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHORSEMANSHIP FOR HEROES — $14,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE A DIFFERENCE OUTDOORS — $9,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetKENNY GUINN CENTER FOR POLICY PRIORITIES — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetReno Rodeo Foundation — $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CABINET FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEAST BAY INTEGRATED CARE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMADOR & THE CHRISTINE & HELEN LANDGRAF — $5,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetLAND OF LINCOLN HONOR FLIGHT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRead With Me Volunteer Programs — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVeterans Guest House Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL SECURITY FORUM OF NORTHERN NEVADA INC — $1,001 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetARTOWN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The E L Cord Foundati…Renown HealthCommunity Foundation …Tahoe Community Found…Six Talents Foundatio…Thelma B & Thomas P H…Robert Z Hawkins Foun…The Nell J Redfield F…John Ben Snow Memoria…NV Energy Charitable …Peek Family Charitabl…Dermody Properties Fo…
The E L Cord FoundationNV24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The E L Cord Foundation · Renown Health · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Tahoe Community Foundation · Six Talents Foundation Inc · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · Dermody Properties 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 Scheffel Family Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Scheffel Family Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to The Scheffel Family Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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