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UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA-RENO FOUNDATION

EIN 94-2781749 RENO, NV

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Revenue 2024
$101,755,310
Expenses 2024
$63,431,908

Program services were 82.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B110
Classification
1000
Street
1664 N VIRGINIA ST MSC 0162

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Facilitate gifts & grants for the benefit of the University of Nevada, Reno to enhance the quality of education through charitable giving.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To aid, support, & assist the University of Nevada, Reno to enhance the quality of education.

  • University Programs: The University of Nevada Reno Foundation receives, manages & disburses funds in accordance with the designated restricted purpose for which the gifts were donated. Provides programmatic funding supporting students, faculty, research & the community in the area funds were raised for. There were 1,256 endowed funds in FY25.

    Expenses $25,368,439 · Grants $25,368,439 · Revenue $478,484

  • Capital Projects: Assist in funding construction projects on campus. Some of the major projects include the College of Business building, Eric & Linda Lannes Basketball facility, Gateway Academic Building, Pennington Health Sciences Building, and the University of Arts Building.

    Expenses $17,881,971 · Grants $17,881,971

  • University Scholarships: Scholarship funding was used for both need and merit based scholarships. More than 3,781 donor-funded scholarships were awarded in FY25.

    Expenses $8,803,349 · Grants $8,803,349

  • Alumni Programs: Funding was provided to Alumni Association and various alumni chapters to strengthen ties to the University community.

    Expenses $400,195 · Grants $400,195

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Frank Gallagher

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ann Morgan

    Chair (Until 12/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ken Coll Chair Elect

    Vice Chair, Gift Accept. & Acqui.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Julie Teel Vice Chair

    Special Events & Public Affairs

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Leonard Wohletz

    Vice Chair Investment-Interim

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Mark Denzler Vice Chair

    Investment (Until 12/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Steven Peralta

    Vice Chair Nominating

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • John Desmond

    Vice Chair Governance

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Deena Behnke

    Vice Chair Development

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Stephanie Kruse Vice Chair

    Development (Until 12/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kevinn Pinkney

    Vice Chair Scholarship & Grants

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Brian Wallace

    Vice Chair Audit and Finance

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Peter Costa

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sara Lafrance

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Pat Miltenberger Edgington

    Member-at-Large

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Opal Adams

    Trustee (Until 12/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Carolyn Barbash

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Don Bernard II

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stuart Brady

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dean Byrne

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tammy Dermody

    Trustee (Until 12/2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Fenimore

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sarah Ferguson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Melissa Harmon

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cheryl Hawkins

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $101,755,310
    Expenses
    $63,431,908
    Contributions
    $79,679,973
    Grants paid
    $52,453,954
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $52,499,229
    Expenses
    $53,110,714
    Contributions
    $40,840,988
    Grants paid
    $43,515,393
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $151,891,141
    Expenses
    $43,107,087
    Contributions
    $130,608,966
    Grants paid
    $36,674,451
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $151,934,512
    Expenses
    $43,136,406
    Contributions
    $130,586,285
    Grants paid
    $36,711,196

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $59,644,067
    Expenses
    $32,271,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $387,075,981

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $75,417,078
    Expenses
    $49,386,658
    Assets (EOY)
    $380,939,240

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • TSTH LLC

    Unusual gift holding company · NV · income $0 · assets $23,524

  • Wonder LLC

    Unusual gift holding company · NV · income $0 · assets $1,257,953

  • Nevada Sagebrush

    Unusual gift holding company · NV · income $20,858 · assets $77,881

  • Lake Campus LLC

    Unusual gift holding company · NV · income $0 · assets $39,827,539

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • Charitable Remainder Trusts (5)

    University Support · NV

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.