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Wayne L Prim Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Wayne L Prim Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$848k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$314k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.6MArts & Culture$1.5MEducation$1.2MHealth$853kAnimals$800kHuman Services$472kYouth Development$55kEnvironment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $294k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $314k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LIVING DESERT$313,500
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART$125,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$75,000
MCCALLUM THEATER$47,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$25,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$25,000
GREY TEAM$23,100
LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$20,000
WORLD CHAMPION FOUNDATION$20,000
COMPANION GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE$20,000
ANIMAL ARK INC$20,000
RENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA$15,000
SIERRA NEVADA BALLET$15,000
SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION$14,270
CHUCK JONES CENTER FOR CREATIVITY$10,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%SAVE OUR ALLIES: $3k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%DOUGLAS COUNTY BACKPACK BUDDIES: $4k → 8%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 13%AUSTIN KIRBY FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%AUSTIN KIRBY FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%AUSTIN KIRBY FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%BARBARA SINATRA CHILDRENS CENTER FOUNDATION: $990 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
NV
OH
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 31% of Wayne L Prim Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in NV; by stated purpose, 73%.

Wayne L Prim Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 43 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
20

Total granted

$4.7M
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+25%

Still filing today

58%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • NM
    Nevada Museum of Art
    7× · 2017–2024 · $726k · revenue +199%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $375k · revenue +112%
  • BM
    Barton Memorial Hospital Foundation
    6× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +166%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
  • TF
    TAHOE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +25%
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
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
2
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
3
Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue Inc

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…

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4
Healthy Nevada
Health
5
Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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.

Animals
6
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
7
Nevada Boxer Rescue

Rescue, rehab, and place abandoned dogs

Animals
8
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Nv

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…

Unclassified
9
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

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…

Animals
10
Noco Humane

Our mission is to further the compassionate safe and responsible relationship between animals and people.

Animals
11
Washoe Barton Medical Clinic

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.

Health
12
Carson Cats Rescue

Carson Cats is dedicated to rescuing cats and kittens from the 6 Los Angeles County shelters, specifically Carson Shelter.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Family Solutions Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
32/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Tahoe Community Foundation: $3,569,560 · EducationTahoe Community FoundationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $375,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION+1 more: $21,000 · EducationSierra Nevada College: $750,000 · OtherSierra Nevada CollegeTHE LIVING DESERT: $638,165 · OtherTHE LIVING DESERTKEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $421,900 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVEOLIVE CREST COACHELLA VALLEY: $363,750 · OtherOLIVE CREST COACHELLA VALLEYMCCALLUM THEATER: $318,090 · OtherMCCALLUM THEATER+31 more: $423,420 · Other+31 moreNevada Museum of Art: $726,250 · Arts & CultureNevada Museum o…LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $115,000 · Arts & CultureLAKE TAHOE SHAK…Park City Performances: $95,830 · Arts & CulturePark City Perfo…Sierra Nevada Ballet: $85,000 · Arts & CultureSierra Nevada B…CHILDRENS PLAYTIME PRODUCTIONS: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $105,185 · Arts & Culture+6 moreBarton Memorial Hospital Foundation: $120,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center: $60,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 · HealthKIDS AND HORSES INC: $20,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 · HealthINCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthCARSON TAHOE REGIONAL HEALTHCARE: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $14,500 · HealthAnimal Ark Incorporated: $60,000 · AnimalsFetch Cares: $42,270 · AnimalsDogs and Cats of Antigua-US Inc: $10,000 · AnimalsNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,000 · Animals+4 more: $4,800 · AnimalsST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesFood for Thought Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesDouglas County BackPack Buddies: $3,500 · Human ServicesAustin Kirby Foundation: $3,000 · Human Services+3 more: $4,490 · Human ServicesDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Education$3,965,560Other$2,915,325Arts & Culture$1,187,265Health$284,500Animals$127,070Human Services$76,990Philanthropy$56,000

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 budgetTahoe Community Foundation: $3,569,560 over 7y, 9.9% of budgetSierra Nevada College: $750,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $726,250 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBarton Memorial Hospital Foundation: $120,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetLAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $115,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetPark City Performances: $95,830 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSierra Nevada Ballet: $85,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetAnimal Ark Incorporated: $60,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ORCHESTRA & COMMUNITY CHORAL: $30,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA: $30,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrey Team Inc: $23,100 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMINDEN ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetKIDS AND HORSES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChuck Jones Center For Creativity: $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $19,185 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION: $14,270 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAHOE FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDogs and Cats of Antigua-US Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCARSON TAHOE REGIONAL HEALTHCARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Nevada: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFood for Thought Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENLO COLLEGE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST COAST SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDouglas County Sheriffs Advisory Council: $4,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCelebration Ministries INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDouglas County BackPack Buddies: $3,500 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetPILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAustin Kirby Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSave Our Allies: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Barbara Sinatra Childrens Center Foundation: $990 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 Animal Ark Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS PLAYTIME PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Fetch Cares ↗
  • Who funds THE ORCHESTRA & COMMUNITY CHORAL ↗
  • Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RENO JAZZ ORCHESTRA ↗
  • 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 KIDS AND HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Tahoe Community Found…Community Foundation …NV Energy Charitable …Robert Z Hawkins Foun…The E L Cord Foundati…Baker Hughes Foundati…Harvey and Leslie Wag…Offerdahl Family Foun…Dave & Cheryl Duffiel…Dean C & Gloria Smith…Courage Sans Peur Fou…The Nell J Redfield F…
Tahoe Community FoundationNV37.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Wayne L Prim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wayne L Prim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 80 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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