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Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce at a glance

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Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce

The organization's mission is to provide members with business support and education to help them grow, and more importantly, to continuously improve the community's economic vitality and quality of life.

$229k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

82% of Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $222k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

22
’18
7
’19
5
’20
0
’22
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$190kCommunity Improvement$136kPhilanthropy$109kArts & Culture$71kPublic Benefit$68kEnvironment$17kEducation$500Science & Tech$250
02FY2020 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $221,925, the rows itemized in this filing. The $229,375 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,450 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 · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $157k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$441k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIERRA BUSINESS COUNCIL$100,000
BIKE MONKEY INC$56,600
TOWN OF TRUCKEE$30,000
TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$23,068
TRUCKEE DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION$6,257
TRUCKEE TAHOE SWIM TEAM$6,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MATT HERON FLY FISHING: $3k → 6%BIKE MONKEY INC: $57k → 9%SIERRA BUSINESS COUNCIL: $100k → 11%TOUGH MUDDER INCORPORATED: $6k → 20%SUMMIT LACROSSE VENTURES: $5k → 12%WEIDINGER PUBLIC RELATIONS: $2k → 8%CRUX EVENTS LLC: $40k → 10%BIKING FOR A BETTER WORLD: $1k → 6%BIKE MONKEY INC: $57k → 9%TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $31k → 11%WEIDINGER PUBLIC RELATIONS: $2k → 8%CRUX EVENTS LLC: $25k → 10%TAHOE FILM FEST - SWEP: $15k → 6%BIKE MONKEY INC: $32k → 9%TOWN OF TRUCKEE: $30k → 11%JUST IMAGINE MARKETING AND DESIGN: $3k → 10%BIG BLUE ADVENTURE: $11k → 6%TOWN OF TRUCKEE: $30k → 11%SIERRA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $28k → 11%HEADWATERS SCIENCE INSTITUTE: $250 → 6%TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FORMATION: $24k → 11%TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $23k → 11%TOWN OF TRUCKEE: $8k → 11%TRUCKEE TAHOE SWIM TEAM: $6k → 11%TRUCKEE TAHOE SWIM TEAM: $5k → 11%TRUCKEE TAHOE SWIM TEAM: $5k → 11%TRUCKEE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $2k → 11%TRAILS & VISTAS: $2k → 11%BRINN TALBOT COMMUNICATIONS: $2k → 11%TRUCKEE COMMUNITY THEATER: $500 → 11%TAHOE EXPEDITION ACADEMY: $500 → 11%TAHOE TRUCKEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $450 → 11%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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$335k · 7 repeat orgs$150k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$335k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+137%

Still filing today

29%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • BM
    BIKE MONKEY INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $145k
  • TO
    TOWN OF TRUCKEE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $68k
  • CE
    CRUX EVENTS LLC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $65k

Funded once

  • SW
    Sierra Watershed Education Partnershipsgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +192%
  • BB
    BIG BLUE ADVENTURE
    one grant, 2018 · $11k
  • TM
    TOUGH MUDDER INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
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
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…

Environment
2
Tahoe Youth Sports Development
Recreation & Sports
3
Tahoe Cross Country Ski Education Association Inc

The Tahoe Cross Country Ski Education Association's (TCCSEA) mission is to promote the sport of cross country skiing through educational activities for children and adults in the North Lake Tahoe/Truckee region of Northern…

Recreation & Sports
4
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
5
Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association

TAMBA is dedicated to the stewardship of sustainable, multiple-use trails and to preserving access for mountain bikers through advocacy, education and promotion of responsible trail use. TAMBA is primarily a trail building…

Recreation & Sports
6
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
7
Tahoe Institute for Natural Science

To advance the natural history, conservation and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education and outreach.

Environment
8
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.

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9
Sierra Streams Institute

To promote community stewardship and advance scientific knowledge of watersheds through reserarch, monitoring and education for the benefit of the Sierra Nevada region and beyond.

Environment
10
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
11
Tahoe Backcountry Alliance

The Tahoe Backcountry Alliance is the voice for the human-powered winter backcountry community in the Lake Tahoe area, advocating for and informing our community about critical issues affecting winter backcountry recreation in and around…

Environment
12
Truckee Meadows Tomorrow

Truckee Meadows Tomorrow enhances our quality of life by providing accurate, timely, and objective data as the basis for community engagement and dialogue.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Truckee Downtown Merchants Association. 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

14 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. 14 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIKE MONKEY INC: $145,200 · OtherBIKE MONKEY INCTOWN OF TRUCKEE: $68,000 · OtherTOWN OF TRUCKEECRUX EVENTS LLC: $65,000 · OtherCRUX EVENTS LLCTRUCKEE DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION: $33,257 · OtherTRUCKEE DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION+7 more: $32,870 · Other+7 moreTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $105,888 · PhilanthropyTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUN…+1 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropySierra Business Council: $100,000 · EducationSierra Business Cou…+1 more: $500 · EducationTRUCKEE TAHOE SWIM TEAM: $16,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsSierra Watershed Education Partnerships: $15,000 · EnvironmentTruckee River Watershed Council: $1,500 · EnvironmentTRAILS & VISTAS: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTRUCKEE COMMUNITY THEATER: $500 · Arts & CultureTahoe School of Music: $450 · Arts & CultureBIKING FOR A BETTER WORLD INC: $1,250 · InternationalHEADWATERS SCIENCE INSTITUTE: $250 · Science & Tech
Other$344,327Philanthropy$108,888Education$100,500Recreation & Sports$16,500Environment$16,500Arts & Culture$2,450International$1,250Science & Tech$250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $105,888 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSierra Business Council: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTRUCKEE DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION: $33,257 over 6y, 13% of budgetTRUCKEE TAHOE SWIM TEAM: $16,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSierra Watershed Education Partnerships: $15,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetCAST HOPE: $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTruckee River Watershed Council: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRAILS & VISTAS: $1,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBIKING FOR A BETTER WORLD INC: $1,250 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTAHOE EXPEDITION ACADEMY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSierra State Parks Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUCKEE COMMUNITY THEATER: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTahoe School of Music: $450 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Martis Camp Community…Tahoe Truckee Communi…Tahoe Community Found…The Martis FundMightycause Charitabl…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp FoundationCA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation · Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · The Martis Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce?

    Find your warmest path to Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce 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 24 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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