Nevada · Nonprofit
Renown Health Foundation
Renown Health Foundation (Nevada) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,613,013 to it, the largest being WILLIAM N PENNINGTON FOUNDATION ($12,500,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $27M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $41M
- Net assets
- $59M
What Renown Health Foundation does
Mission
Renown Health makes a genuine difference in the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
See Schedule ORenown Health is Reno's only not-for-profit hospital. Community support and partnership are essential to the services we provide and donor contributions of any size make a significant impact on our community. Renown Health Foundation, founded in 1985, carries forward an essential tradition - pairing donor support with our community's most vital needs. Support for Renown Health Foundation stays here to fund and support patients through enhanced prevention and education programs, state-of-the-art equipment, and important medical research. Renown Health Foundation is working hard to ensure families have access to care, now and into the future. Here are a few recent projects and programs that show the impact of donations: *Conrad Breast Center*Pennington Transplant Fund*Helmsley ECMO Grant*Renown Children's Hospital*Crisis Center*Clinical training and educationRenown Health is focused on being the destination for our community's health and healthcare needs. Renown Health Foundation raises funds for all our major service lines, including cancer, heart and vascular health, rehabilitation, pediatric services and behavioral health and addiction. For the year ended December…
$17,442,279 spentof which $17,365,208 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,442,279.
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 2021 to 2022, from $29M to $41M (+42%).
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 13% · 2020 20% · 2021 27% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Brian Erling
President/CEO
Board chair
Brian Cushard
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $349k → $6.6M.
14 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $781k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money Renown Health Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Renown Health Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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
Renown Health Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
27% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Renown Health Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 32% · 2019 31% · 2020 79% · 2021 88% · 2022 18% · 2023 47% — 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
54% of Renown Health Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
74% of Renown Health 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. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 Renown Health 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Renown Health · exempt
- Renown Regional Medical Center · exempt
- Renown Transitional Care Services · exempt
- Renown South Meadows Medical Center · exempt
- Hometown Health Plan · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Renown Health 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 Renown Health Foundation?
- Renown Health Foundation (Nevada) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,613,013 to it, the largest being WILLIAM N PENNINGTON FOUNDATION ($12,500,000). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Renown Health Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $40,613,013 in grants to Renown Health Foundation, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Renown Health Foundation?
- WILLIAM N PENNINGTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Renown Health 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 92 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