Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation

• The foundation's stated fields are education, children's programmes, service animal programmes, and health and community-based programmes, so a small nonprofit working in one of these areas has a clear fit to test.
• Its stated priority areas are Northern Nevada, Northern California and Hawaii, so make clear in your request how your work reaches one of them.
• Half of its 126 grants to organisations were $20,000 or less, and about 8 in 10 fell between $2,500 and $55,000, so a modest, well-costed request sits within its typical range, though its largest grant was $250,000 and that band is not a ceiling.
• Most of its grant dollars go to organisations it had also funded in the two earlier filings (94% in the latest), so a first approach is to a foundation whose money mostly goes to familiar grantees, and the case needs to be made with care.
• The filing gives no deadlines and says it accepts applications, so timing is open, but no set cycle is given to plan around.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• UNR Foundation · Lannes Basketball Building
  $150,0002024 tax year
• UNR Foundation · Business Building
  $125,0002024 tax year
• Guide Dogs for the Blind · Courtyard Plaza construction
  $125,0002024 tax year
• Nevada Museum of Art · Museum expansion
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Big Brothers Big Sisters Northern NV · Building Big Fixtures
  $55,0002024 tax year
• Northern Nevada Youth Golf Foundation · Wildcreek Golf Course
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows · DWR Expansion
  $50,0002024 tax year
• UNR Foundation · Men's/Women's Athletics
  $50,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.