Truckee Tahoe Community Foundation
/OVERVIEW: The Truckee Tahoe Community Foundation supports families, housing, forests and community projects that have social and environmental impacts in Northern California.
FUNDING AREAS: Families, housing, forests, community, arts and culture, youth development, recreation, health, human services
IP TAKE: This is an accessible community foundation with many funding topics of interest and numerous funds that award grants each year.
PROFILE: Established in 1998, the Truckee Tahoe Community Foundation (TTCF) is a community foundation based in Truckee, California. The foundation began with a $1 million challenge grant by William Hewlett, who vacationed in the Truckee area from childhood through his grandfather years. The foundation aims to "make Tahoe-Truckee a better place for all who live and visit here.” It funds local efforts for families, housing, forests and community projects.
The Truckee Tahoe Community Foundation makes local investments through grants, scholarships, training and impact investments. TTCF makes a variety of grants and uses a common application to provide grants across its areas of impact. Broad interests include arts and culture, youth development, recreation, health, human services and community improvement. The funder typically makes about $300,000 in direct grants each year in the form of project and program grants, capacity-building grants and mission-driven grants. TTCF has an open competitive grants program that awards over $100,000 annually, the Queen of Hearts Women’s Fund that awards $60,000 annually, the Nature Grant Cycle that awards over $120,000 annually and the Truckee Core Values Fund that has a fall grant cycle and a separate application process. Additionally, TTCF awards donor-advised grants and scholarships to local students.
Grants range between about $5,000 and $50,000. Learn more about this funder’s local giving by examining its recent tax records. Grantmaking focuses on the North Tahoe-Truckee region in Northern California. Past local grantees include Achieve Tahoe, Biking for a Better World and Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications from nonprofits. A volunteer grant committee reviews applications for TTCF’s annual grant cycle. Direct general questions to the staff atinfo@ttcf.net or 530-587-1776.
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