· Private foundation
The Wawona Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| NEVADA WOMEN'S FUND | $9,316 |
| MIRACLE FLIGHTS FOR KIDS | $9,316 |
| PORTLAND ANIMAL WELFARE (PAW) TEAM | $9,316 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NEVADA | $9,316 |
| NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $9,316 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $9,316 |
| EUDORA AREA HISTORIAL SOCIETY | $9,316 |
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 (FY17–24, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +70% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NMNevada Museum of Art6× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +199%
- NDNEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS7× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +61%
- FFFREEDOM FOR GREAT APES INC5× · 2018–2023 · $42k · revenue ×16
Funded once
- SISLIDING INTO HOMEone grant, 2019 · $10k
- RHRenown Health Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +355%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Renown Health makes a genuine difference in the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
We advocate, we inform, and we connect
Nevada advocates for planned parenthood affiliates is the lobbying, education and political arm for the planned parenthood affiliates in nevada
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To protect private property rights and enhance the success and profitability of the real estate profession.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada Women's Fund and the most unlike its peers is Nevada Diabetes Association for Children and Adults. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 24 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 Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOR GREAT APES INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA WOMEN'S FUND ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds STEP 2 INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Northern Nevada ↗
- Who funds Renown Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHIMPS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Ark Incorporated ↗
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: The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Susanne & Gloria Young Foundation · The Marshall R Matley Foundation · Robert S & Dorothy J Keyser Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Dermody Properties Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Wawona 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.