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Tahoe Donner Giving Fund reports $400,000 in grants and $1.5 million in scholarships to local students
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Chair Toni Moore told members the Giving Fund has awarded about $400,000 in grants to nonprofits and roughly $1.5 million in scholarships since 2014; a recent scholarship recipient, Julia Egan, described the scholarship’s impact on her college career.
Toni Moore, chair of the Tahoe Donner Giving Fund, reported to members that the fund has awarded roughly $400,000 in grants to 37 nonprofit organizations and approximately $1.5 million in scholarships to 74 students since the fund’s 2014 founding.
At the annual meeting Moore outlined the fund’s focus areas — arts and culture; education and youth development; environment, conservation and animal wellness; and health and human services — and said grant awards recently increased to $5,000 and $10,000 levels. She said the fund partners with the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation for administrative support and as the 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor; founding partner Elements Mountain Company underwrites administrative costs so donations go directly to scholarships and grants.
Moore said approximately $250,000 of scholarship funding comes from general fundraising and individual donations, while about $1.25 million was made possible by a single anonymous donor who underwrote a portion of the program’s impact scholarships.
The meeting included remarks from scholarship recipient Julia Egan, a 2023 Truckee High School graduate now a junior at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Egan said the award helped pay for housing, textbooks and living expenses, allowing her to accept academic and extracurricular opportunities without the same financial stress many students face.
Moore encouraged members to increase participation: she said fewer than 5% of Tahoe Donner property owners currently contribute and suggested that broader participation would expand the fund’s reach. The Giving Fund listed recent grantees including Achieve Tahoe, Sierra Senior Services, Friends of the Library, La Fuerza Latina, Boys & Girls Club, Truckee School of Music, Truckee Community Theater and Slow Food Tahoe.
Moore told members the Giving Fund plans another round of approximately $60,000 in grants this fall and invited attendees to visit the fund’s table and view the 2024 donor report available at the meeting.
