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Wheeler Blackbeach Foundation at a glance

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Wheeler Blackbeach 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.

$135k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$115kPhilanthropy$95kInternational$82kCommunity Improvement$30kArts & Culture$25kHealth$23kReligion$11kYouth Development$2k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROAM HUMANITARIAN$50,000
VETERANS GUEST HOUSE INC$25,000
MARIPOSA FOUNDATION$25,000
SIERRA NEVADA BALLET$25,000
NEVADA INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%STAND WITH UKRAINE INC: $5k → 11%WOMEN & CHILDREN CENTER OF THE SIERRA INC: $25k → 10%WOMEN & CHILDRENS CENTER OF THE SIERRA: $15k → 10%PROJECT 150 RENO: $10k → 10%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$277k · 4 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$277k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+26%

Still filing today

75%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • RH
    ROAM HUMANITARIAN
    2× · 2023–2024 · $77k · revenue +54%
  • VG
    Veterans Guest House Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +96%
  • WA
    WOMEN AND CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE SIERRA INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $40k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • JL
    JUNIOR LEAGUE OF RENO INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -46%
  • RH
    Renown Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue +251%
  • P1
    PROJECT 150
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -53%
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.

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Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada (BBBSN) is a non-profit 501(c) 3 corporation that is a leader in youth mentoring services. Since 1971, BBBSN has been developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on…

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3
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
4
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
5
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
6
Our Nevada Judges Inc
Education
7
Safe Embrace

Safe Embrace is committed to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence with innovative prevention and intervention services. We help victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking become survivors by providing…

Health
8
Green Chips Dba Impact Nv

Founded in 2008, ImpactNV has served as an independent nonprofit comprised of Nevadas public and private entities and NGOs. The goal of this alliance is to make Nevada and its communities more environmentally, economically and socially…

Environment
9
Westcare Nevada Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
10
Refugee Care Collective Northwest

Provide care to refugee families.

Human Services
11
Shelter Providers of Southern Nevada Inc Dba Homeaid Southern Nevada

Promote and facilitate the construction of housing for transitionally homeless men, women, and children

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12
Homeless Resource Council of the Sierras

To lead, collaborate, coordinate, develop, and implement strategies and resources to end homelessness in Nevada and Placer counties.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior League of Reno Inc; the most unlike its peers is Roam Humanitarian. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARIPOSA FOUNDATION: $95,000 · OtherMARIPOSA FOUNDATIONVeterans Guest House Inc: $65,000 · OtherVeterans Guest House IncRenown Health Foundation: $23,290 · OtherRenown Health FoundationNEVADA INTERFAITH ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherROAM HUMANITARIAN: $77,000 · Youth DevelopmentROAM HUMANITARIAN+1 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOMEN AND CHILDREN'S CENTER OF THE SIERRA INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN AND CHILDR…PROJECT 150: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 150Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love: $5,000 · Human ServicesStand With Ukrai…JUNIOR LEAGUE OF RENO INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementSierra Nevada Ballet: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$194,290Youth Development$79,000Human Services$55,000Community Improvement$30,000Arts & Culture$25,000

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 budgetROAM HUMANITARIAN: $77,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetVeterans Guest House Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF RENO INC: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSierra Nevada Ballet: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetRenown Health Foundation: $23,290 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT 150: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC: $2,000 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.

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.

Dermody Properties Fo…Robert Z Hawkins Foun…The E L Cord Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Dermody Properties FoundationNV15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dermody Properties Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wheeler Blackbeach Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wheeler Blackbeach Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Wheeler Blackbeach Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wheeler Blackbeach Foundation 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 12 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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