Nevada · Nonprofit
Reno Rodeo Foundation
Reno Rodeo Foundation (Nevada) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $731,222 to it, the largest being AL AND MARY EVANS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($203,700). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $693k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $731k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Reno Rodeo Foundation does
Mission
The Foundation enhances and enriches the lives of Northern Nevada families by aiding children with extraordinary needs, supporting community projects, and providing scholarships. Also, the Foundation serves to foster an appreciation for the sport and history of rodeo.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Reno Rodeo Foundation supports abused, neglected, and at-risk children across 14 counties in Northern Nevada. Such programs include choosing one or more children with special needs to receive a Rodeo Wish to enhance the quality of his/her life, sponsoring various programs such as Family Day at the Rodeo. Through the Denim Drive, the Foundation provides clothing and comfort to foster children and children in protective custody. The Foundation also provides comfort by supplying new books and Reading Rooms for children attending family court proceedings.
$542,441 spent80% of program spendingThe Foundation funds educational scholarships through a committee that reviews and scores applications and makes recommendation to the Board. Scholarships were awarded to 26 students attending a Nevada college or university. Scholarships may be awarded for out-of-state schools when the students degree program is not offered in Nevada.
$137,339 spentof which $137,339 as grants20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $679,780.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.3M to $2.5M (+12%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 10% · 2020 8% · 2021 19% · 2022 13% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Cheree Boteler
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $15k → $141k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Reno Rodeo Association). These are real filings, and they are not money Reno Rodeo Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Reno Rodeo Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 22 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Reno Rodeo Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 34% · 2019 27% · 2020 43% · 2021 24% · 2022 30% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of Reno Rodeo Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of Reno Rodeo Foundation's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Reno Rodeo Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Reno Rodeo Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Reno Rodeo Foundation?
- Reno Rodeo Foundation (Nevada) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $731,222 to it, the largest being AL AND MARY EVANS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($203,700). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Reno Rodeo Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $731,222 in grants to Reno Rodeo Foundation, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Reno Rodeo Foundation?
- AL AND MARY EVANS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $203,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Reno Rodeo Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing