· Private foundation
Wayne L Prim Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $294k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $314k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LIVING DESERT | $313,500 |
| NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART | $125,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| MCCALLUM THEATER | $47,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| GREY TEAM | $23,100 |
| ANIMAL ARK INC | $20,000 |
| COMPANION GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE | $20,000 |
| WORLD CHAMPION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| RENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| SIERRA NEVADA BALLET | $15,000 |
| SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION | $14,270 |
| DOGS AND CATS OF ANTIGUA-US INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 31% of Wayne L Prim Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in NV; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k 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 Art7× · 2017–2024 · $726k · revenue +199%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $375k · revenue +112%- BMBarton Memorial Hospital Foundation6× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- SJST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +166%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
- NPNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -1%
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.
Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.
The tahoe nordic search and rescue team (tnsar) ... was conceived in 1976 as a response to the death of a boy lost off the back side of northstar-at-tahoe ski area during a blizzard. there was, at the time, no organized backcountry team to…
Nevada spca saves the lives of southern nevada's most vulnerable pets, inspires human companions to uphold the best possible care and increases the human-animal bond through adoption, foster and preventative care.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Rescue, rehab, and place abandoned dogs
Our mission is to be an innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless dogs and cats, primarily through their rescue and placement in forever loving homes and by promoting spaying and neutering to control pet…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Our mission is to further the compassionate safe and responsible relationship between animals and people.
Our mission is to care for your health and wellness. Our vision is to strengthen our community by providing accessible, affordable, high quality healthcare to all.
Carson Cats is dedicated to rescuing cats and kittens from the 6 Los Angeles County shelters, specifically Carson Shelter.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Family Solutions Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Judes Ranch for Children 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.
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 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 80 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 Tahoe Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sierra Nevada College ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Barton Memorial Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Park City Performances ↗
- Who funds Sierra Nevada Ballet ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS PLAYTIME PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Animal Ark Incorporated ↗
- Who funds ST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds Fetch Cares ↗
- Who funds RENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds THE ORCHESTRA & COMMUNITY CHORAL ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Grey Team Inc ↗
- Who funds MINDEN ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds KIDS AND HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds Chuck Jones Center For Creativity ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds INCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Tahoe Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Baker Hughes Foundation · Harvey and Leslie Wagner Foundation · Offerdahl Family Foundation · Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation · Dean C & Gloria Smith Foundation · Courage Sans Peur Foundation · The Nell J Redfield 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 Wayne L Prim 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
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.