Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Reno, Nevada

179
foundations with a Reno address
$197.9M
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
41
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 179 foundations that gave a Reno, Nevada address on their tax filing — 172 private foundations and 7 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $197.9 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 41 of them (23%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Reno foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 179 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 16 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Reno, Nevada
William N Pennington Foundation$33.3M$33.3M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
EL Wiegand Foundation$5.6M$6.2M$4.9M–$6.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Nell J Redfield Foundation$20,000$4.7M$4,492–$500,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
NV Energy Charitable Foundation$10,000$4.2M$350–$500,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The George W Gillemot Foundation$47,500$3.8M$2,500–$3.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The E L Cord Foundation$20,000$3.6M$3,500–$830,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Gamble Foundation$50,000$1.5M$10,000–$305,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Robert Z Hawkins Foundation$16,933$1.3M$2,000–$200,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Estelle J Kelsey Foundation$15,000$1.3M$2,500–$250,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation$20,000$1.2M$1,000–$150,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Peek Family Charitable Foundation$5,000$1M$1,000–$155,500FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
William H Moffat Jr Foundation$10,000$935,205$500–$150,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Robert S & Dorothy J Keyser Foundation$20,000$869,000$5,000–$100,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Shirley Family Charitable Foundation$1,300$672,169$250–$636,019FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Roxie and Azad Joseph Foundation$10,000$625,000$2,500–$200,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Charles H Stout Foundation$14,250$612,500$2,000–$75,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Scott K Canepa Foundation$35,000$514,900$550–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Marshall R Matley Foundation$15,000$423,550$5,000–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Helen Close Charitable Foundation$10,000$412,215$2,500–$82,715FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Jack and Catherine Flanary Foundation$30,000$270,000One amountFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Wagner Foundation$10,000$256,620$100–$126,470FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Dermody Properties Foundation$1,500$245,000$400–$10,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Edna B & Bruno Benna Foundation$5,000$174,560$500–$62,560FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Robert R Banks Foundation Inc$10,000$165,000$4,000–$50,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Earl and Elizabeth Ash Foundation$10,000$155,500$2,500–$25,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.