ANNUAL R E PO R T 2014–2015

Together Creating a Legacy CONTENTS

1 Letter from the Chair of the Board & CEO

3 Premier Project: Incline to Sand Harbor Bike Path

5 2014 Signature Projects

6 Tahoe City AIS Weed Control Project

7 Ski Run Channel AIS Weed Control Project

7 Environmental Education Fund

8 Tahoe In Depth

8 Take Care Campaign

9 License Plate Program

12 Dollar Program

13 2014 Founders Circle Dinner

15 2014 Summit

17 Aces Ball Game

18 Deep Flight

20 Stewardship Circle Program

21 2014/2015 Board of Directors

23 Incline to Sand Harbor Bike Path Donors

27 Founders Circle Donors

29 Friends of Tahoe Donors

31 Financials

Cover and contents images courtesy of Eleanor Preger, www.eleanorpreger.com DEAR TAHOE FUND FRIENDS,

inside these pages you will find the Annual We continued to grow our support base with the Report for the 2014/15 Fiscal Year ending on June new Stewardship Circle campaign, a multi-year 30, 2015. This is a brief look at the work of the Tahoe commitment to support the sustainability of our Fund as we continue to expand our efforts to restore organization. and enhance Lake Tahoe with your support. To the amazing collection of individuals, businesses Our generous donors helped us support a number and foundations that have come together to invest of environmental improvement projects this year, in our vision and the long-term preservation of Lake from removal of aquatic invasive weeds at the Tahoe, we say thank you. With your continued sup- shoreline to environmental education programs port, we will create a legacy for generations to come. that introduce our youth to this natural environ- ment. We also launched our biggest project to date, Sincerely, a campaign to raise $750,000 for the Incline to Sand Harbor Bike Path along the east shore. These private funds were needed to trigger more than $12,000,000 in public funding. We are proud to announce that we met and exceeded this goal, from Tim Cashman, Chair Amy Berry, CEO more than 300 donors in the community.

1 Incline Village

Tunnel Creek Cafe

Hidden Beach

Memorial Point

Sand Harbor INCLINE TO SAND HARBOR BIKE PATH

the incline to sand harbor bike path provide access to Hidden Beach, Memorial Point and will be a spectacular three-mile paved path that various other scenic vistas. It is a major component of will provide a new opportunity for the community the Lake Tahoe Bikeway that will one day go all the to experience the natural beauty of the eastern shore way around the Lake. of Tahoe. An exceptional recreational amenity with Led by the Tahoe Transportation District, the project added environmental benefits, the path will also team identified more than $12 million dollars in significantly improve the safety of those traveling public funding from various federal, state and Washoe down the Highway 28 corridor. With a 10-foot County sources for construction. Through the gener- wide path, it will meet the American Disability Act osity of our donors, the Tahoe Fund met the matching standards to ensure it is accessible to everyone to funds goal of $750,000 to act as a match to access and ride, walk or stroll. leverage these public funds. These dollars triggered a The new path will begin at the intersection of Lake- cascade of public funding to finalize engineering plans shore Drive and Highway 28, expanding the current and begin construction. Construction is scheduled to Lakeshore bike path for three more miles down to begin in 2016. the Sand Harbor State Park. Along the way it will

3 4 2014 SIGNATURE PROJECTS

Tahoe City AIS Weed Control Project Granted: $33,000 Partners: Tahoe Resource Conservation District, Department of Parks and Recreation, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, University of Nevada aquatic invasive species are a serious threat to the crystal clear waters of Lake Tahoe. Aquatic invaders such as Eurasian watermilfoil, Asian clam and brown bullhead catfish have already established in Lake Tahoe. These non-native species change the natural make-up of the waters and threaten to pick the weeds from the shallow shores using proven significantly reduce the recreational use of the Lake best practices. In deeper areas, divers will be sent and surrounding rivers. This project will implement to the bottom of the Lake to cover the plants with control and removal efforts for Eurasian water mil- mats. Both practices have been shown to have great foil at the mouth of the Tahoe City Dam and down success in restoring the near shore environment the Truckee River. Locally trained crews will hand back to its original pristine manner.

6 2014 SIGNATURE PROJECTS

Birds return to Lake Tahoe, page 4 Tahoe In Depth Summer 2014 Granted: $5,000 Lead Agency: Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Ski Run Channel AIS Weed Drought offers Control Project tahoe in depth is a news publication that TAHOE’S SEVEN SUMMITS good news, bad By Jeff Cowen news for Lake aims to inspire environmental understanding Tahoe In Depth By Jim Sloan The Lake may be this Region’s Tahoe In Depth Granted: $13,500 most famous geographic feature, but and stewardship at Lake Tahoe. The purpose of it is Tahoe’s peaks that define our From the shoreline, a long-term landscapes and, at times, the course or severe drought seems to put of our lives. Daily, we glimpse them Lake Tahoe in dire straits. The water Partners: Tahoe Resource Conservation District, Tahoe In Depth is to give homeowners, landowners, towering over our tedium, indelible recedes, streams dry up and the reminders of nature’s greatness and our shoreline beaches expand to expose own impermanence. Succumbing to a bathtub ring along the 72-mile California Tahoe Conservancy their power, we climb them. shoreline. visitors and policymaker’s clear, straightforward Some climbers are peak collectors, But from the water, things don’t “bagging” the major summits one by always look so bad. During a one. Others climb on a lark, impulsively drought, many of the pollutants joining friends and unprepared for the that affect Lake Tahoe’s clarity can’t and interesting information about the Lake Tahoe Photo © Steve Dunleavy experience ahead. Regardless of our Pyramid Peak rises above the fog-choked Tahoe Basin. find their way to the Lake. Droughts the ski run channel in South Lake Tahoe is paths, once we reach their summits, we slow down the rate of urban runoff, feel at once tiny and expansive, earth and rodents. Trees become shorter and neighborhoods. reducing erosion and the flow of fine environment—from successful restoration to and time stretching in all directions wider, until they disappear entirely. Our Climbers of even our most benign sediment and other water-clouding infested with Eurasian watermilfoil and curly-leaf below us, the experience undeniably bodies change too. Legs tremble, lungs peaks should know that Tahoe’s pollution from reaching the Lake empowering. call the air a fraud, and equilibrium backcountry, summer and winter, can through storm drains and streams. There is no sacred circle of peaks finds a new orientation. What it does to be foe as much as friend. Knowledge, Tahoe’s clarity tends to increase ongoing challenges. The goal is to help people around the Lake. Yet seven of the our minds is incalculable. experience, and common sense are more during drought periods. pondweed, aquatic invasive plants that threaten mountains encircling Tahoe’s blue The journeys to these seven summits valuable in the mountains than brute “Droughts like this one don’t surface contain a combination of beauty, are different in every case and in every strength or daring. have many bright spots, but clarity better understand the work being done to restore historic tradition, pure height and, some season. They range from lung-seizing While there are a number of is one of them,” said Dr. Geoffrey the clarity of the Lake. The high volume of traffic will argue, spiritual power: Tahoe’s climbs to four-wheel drive convenience. published backcountry guides that Schladow, director of the UC Davis Seven Summits. Atop these mountains, Many can be reached via the Tahoe Rim contain more detailed information Tahoe Environmental Research everything is different. The birds are Trail and, increasingly, via connector on the mountains of this Region, the Center (TERC) at Incline Village. Tahoe’s clarity and the role they can play in helping not the same birds, nor are the flowers trails from the heart of our towns and through the channel, notably commercial daily Continued on page 12 Continued on page 9 reach that outcome. The publication explores the INSIDE THIS ISSUE: cruises to Emerald Bay, spread the invasive plants n ENVIRONMENT: How to keep your grass green, and the Lake blue...... 3 n WILDFIRE: How Tahoe neighborhoods are becoming fire-adapted...... 5

n COLLABORATION: New group tackles an array of challenges ...... 6 natural and cultural history of the Tahoe Basin #765 PERMIT

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PRSRT STD PRSRT n NEW VIEW: A new 3-D film explores the depths of Tahoe...... 20 allow the continued treatment and removal of these around the Lake. Depth In Tahoe a wide spectrum of scientific and planning efforts n CHAINING UP: In 1911, stakes were high for autos in a race to Tahoe...... 24 under way to protect Lake Tahoe’s unique scenic and ecological qualities.

Environmental Education Fund Granted: $3,500 Take Care Campaign Partners: Sierra Watershed Education Partnership, Granted: $20,000 South Tahoe Environmental Education Coalition, Partners: Tahoe Fund, League to Save Lake Tahoe, US Forest Service Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Tahoe Resource the tahoe fund believes strongly in the need Conservation District, UC Davis- Tahoe Environ- for environmental stewardship of the Lake Tahoe mental Research Center Region to help ensure the long-term preservation of the tahoe fund worked together with a col- the Lake among our current and next generations. laboration of organizations to develop the region’s The magnificent environment of Tahoe creates a first unified stewardship campaign. The campaign wonderful opportunity to create lifelong environ- is an attempt to reduce the human impacts on our mental stewards in the Basin and beyond. Through environment through a series of fun and simple the Environmental Education Fund, the Tahoe Fund in the Classroom, and the Tahoe Basin Watershed messages. Campaign materials were made available provided grants to fund Generation Green, Trout Education Summit. to community organizations to use in their outreach efforts for a Summer 2015 launch.

7 8 LICENSE PLATE PROGRAM

the tahoe fund continued to promote the plate purchases and renewals go to the California sale and renewal of Tahoe license plates with a new Tahoe Conservancy and the Nevada Division of “True Blue” advertising campaign and the popular State Lands to fund hiking and biking trails, and Plates for Powder program that awards new plate watershed restoration projects around the Basin. buyers with lift tickets to area resorts. The fees from

Thank you to our 2014–15 season participating resorts:

• Diamond Peak Ski Resort • Royal Gorge Cross Country Ski Resort • • Sierra at Tahoe • Homewood Mountain Resort • Squaw Valley | Alpine Meadows • • Sugar Bowl Resort • Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe • • • Tahoe XC Dave Wilderotter of Tahoe Dave’s is true blue for Tahoe with his Tahoe license plate.

9 8 DOLLAR PROGRAMS

launched as a partnership between the that allows guests to help raise funds for the local Tahoe Fund and the Truckee River Watershed environment. Please support these businesses that Council, Green Bucks is a dollar donation program support our efforts.

Thank you to these incredible Green Bucks businesses:

• Alpine Meadows | Squaw Valley • MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa • Big Blue Adventure LLC • Mourelatos Lakeshore Resort • Blue Angel Café • Northstar California • Drunken Monkey • PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn • Edgewood Tahoe Golf Resort • Squaw Valley Lodge • Event Masters • Tahoe Mountain Properties • Fifty-Fifty Brewing Company • Tahoe Mountain Resorts Lodging • Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Lake Tahoe • Tahoe South • Heavenly Mountain Resort • Truckee Properties • Homewood Mountain Resort • Truckee Tahoe Airport • Kirkwood Mountain Resort • West Shore Café & Inn • Lakeside Inn • Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel

12 2014 FOUNDERS CIRCLE DINNER

on august 18, 2014 the Tahoe Fund held its 4th and EpicRoasthouse. The focus of the evening was annual Founders Circle on the lakefront lawn of the on the Tahoe Fund’s new Stewardship Circle cam- West Shore Cafe. Donors were treated to a gourmet paign and the 2014 Signature Projects. dinner from the chef of San Francisco’s Waterbar

13 14 Senator Dianne Feinstein opens the 2014 Summit

2014 LAKE TAHOE SUMMIT

the tahoe fund was the Organizing Sponsor California Governor Jerry Brown and remarks of the 18th Annual Lake Tahoe Summit held on from federal leaders from both California and August 19, 2014 at the Valhalla Estate in South Nevada. The theme of the summit was “Drought, Lake Tahoe. The Summit was hosted by Senator Wildfire, and Invasive Species: Confronting the Dianne Feinstein and included a keynote by Effects of Climate Change on Lake Tahoe.”

15 16 Founding Board Chair, Cindy Gustafson, threw out the first pitch to cele- brate Tahoe Fund day at the ballpark.

Tahoe Fund Donor, Dan Haas, gets ready to dive deep in Tahoe on the Deepflight submarine.

ACES BALL GAME DEEP FLIGHT

on a warm summer day, Tahoe Fund took Tahoe Fund was featured on the scoreboard and a few lucky tahoe fund donors were boarded the Deep flight submarine to explore the the mound at the Reno Ace’s ballpark to spread engaged kids in the audience with a fun game to treated to a once-in-a-lifetime experience as they depths of Lake Tahoe. awareness of the work of the Tahoe Fund. The “pick up Asian clams” with ping pong balls.

17 18 STEWARDSHIP CIRCLE PROGRAM

tahoe fund introduced the Stewardship Stewardship Circle members are a distinguished Circle campaign to help inspire, motivate, and group of leadership donors made up of individuals, empower stewardship of our important national foundations and corporations helping us to restore treasure. Donors joined the Stewardship Circle and enhance the Tahoe environment. Thank you to with a multi-year commitment of at least $2,500 our early Stewardship Circle donors! a year for three years.

Platinum Melissa & Jason Green – Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Ron & Maureen Ashley Hard Rock Hotel Lake Tahoe Blum Family Foundation John & Glennis Jones Dan Haas in memory of Joanne Haas – Marin Community Foundation Ralph & Margie Koldinger Squaw Valley | Alpine Meadows Sharon Lane Vail Resorts Mountainside Partners NV Energy Gold Cindy Pester Duane & Becky Andrews PlumpJack Group Georgy & Sue Bull – Schwab Charitable Fund Tom Seeliger Ginnie & Peter Haas Jr. – Lynn Suter Pete E. Haas Jr. Family Fund Angelo Tsakopoulos Eric Havian & Jean Jarvis – The San Francisco Foundation Roy Wickland Serendipity Fund – Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Granite CA 89 Silver Cal Neva AT&T Todd & Erika Chapman Camp Richardson Resort Claudia Florsheim Tim & Denise Cashman Cindy Gustafson & Wally Auerbach Richard & Theresa Crocker – Terry Watt & Mark Karwowski Santa Cruz County Community Foundation Janie and Donny Friend – Jewish Community Foundation

19 | Image courtesy of Eleanor Preger, www.eleanorpreger.com 20 2014/2015 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

officers Hilary Newsom President, PlumpJack Group Tim Cashman, Chair Las Vegas Harley Davidson; At-large Nevada Jim Porter TRPA Board Member Chairman Emeritus, Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation; Partner, Porter Simon Art Chapman, Vice-Chair JMA Ventures, Homewood, West Shore Café Cory Ritchie Chair of Hardie Family Council; Active Tom Mertens, Secretary Community Member Krause-Taylor; League to Save Lake Tahoe Board Member Patricia Ronald Past Board Member Tahoe-Baikal Institute and Allen Biaggi, Treasurer League to Save Lake Tahoe Former Director of Nevada Conservation and Natural Resources Chuck Scharer CEO, Edgewood Companies —­ Pete Sonntag board members COO, Heavenly Resort (Vail Resorts) Jim Boyd Julie Motamedi Teel Clean Tech Advocates; former California Energy Owner, Lakehouse Mall; former Chair of TRPA Commissioner Terry Watt Warner Chabot Conservationist; formerly with SF Environmental CEO, Warner Chabot & Associates; former CEO Law Firm Shute, Mihaly & Weinberg California League of Conservation Voters Andy Wirth Scott Gillespie CEO & President, Squaw Valley; Vice Chair, Principal, Sandbox Studio Reno/Tahoe Airport Authority Cindy Gustafson — Former California Fish & Game Commissioner; GM, Tahoe City Public Utility District advisory council Jim Lawrence Katy Simon Holland Special Adviser of the Nevada Department of Simon and Associates Consulting, former Washoe Conservation and Natural Resources County General Manager Patrick Wright Kevin Marshall Executive Director, California Tahoe Conservancy President, Clear Capital Steve Merrill — Benchmark Capital; past Director of TRPA

21 Image courtesy of Eleanor Preger, www.eleanorpreger.com | 22 INCLINE VILLAGE TO SAND HARBOR $1000+ Sydney Althoff Ken & Denise Cash BIKE PATH DONORS Laurel Andrew Joni Amaroli Nicholas Casini J. Andrews Harris Joyce Anzelc, in Honor of Michael Cassacia Joyce & Marty Anzelc James Kaplan The Ceragioli Family Lori A. Baptista Vistas & Kiosks Esther Levandoski – Greg Mckay James Chang Santa Cruz County Community Foundation Kristan Barbour Vista 1: Donny & Janie Friend – NCE Engineering Tseng Ho Chen Jewish Community Foundation Mahal Family – Hemkund Foundation Bill & Michelle Barnes Brett Robinson Bill Cherry Vista 2: Nancy Binz Karen Mullen-Ehly Neil, Jill, Brandon & Trevor Barnes Julie Savage – Glenn Childs Jim Pierce Vista 3: Aaron Moore and Jason & Melissa Green – The US Charitable Gift Trust Nancy Barrett Michael Christian Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Ron Randolph-Wall and Linda Brinkley – Barbara Basso, in Honor of Sydney Coatsworth Vista 4: Mary Anne Sangiacomo Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Dr. Tracy L. Basso $500+ Collins Engineering Consulting, LTD. Vista 5: Susan McMillan & Tom Kenny The Thomas & Thelma Hart Foundation Anonymous – Parasol Tahoe Linda Bell Theresa Colombini Vista 6: Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Marianna Vaughan, in Memory of Nora Elizabeth Temple Community Foundation Linda Bell, in Honor of Terry Bell, Mike & Stacy Combs & Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation Ascent Environmental Jason Bell, Brendy Bell Alsup Dennis Concannon Vista 7: Jim, Nancy & Carter Kennedy – $2500 – Bear Pavers John & Rajashree Benediktsson Susan Benson, in Memory of Bevan Cooney Vanguard Charitable Endowment Renee & Steven Bouck – Sandra Cath Larry Benson : Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Gay Bentley John Copoulos Vista 8 Tim & Holly Racich and Evelyn Chipman Kevin & Sheri Marshall Michael Brumbaugh, in Honor of Griff & Wes Brumbaugh Jim Beres Ray Costa Brady Dolan Vista 9: Ron & Maureen Ashley Guy & Phyllis Conces Paul & Maria Berning Mary Alice Cox Florence & Steven Goldby Vista 10: Richie & Hardie Families – Bob & Carlotta Dathe Debby & Mike Bird Harriet Cummings Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Gunderson Law Firm Bill & Judy Echols David Bobzien Brian & Taylor Curler Vista 11: Rob & Amy Alston and John Higley Linda Gillcrist, in Honor of Bingo Monique & Tad Bogdan Charlotte & Chet Curtis Pamela & Dennis Barnedt Ralph Kuhn IBM on behalf of Micki Napp Julie Bowman, Lani Davies, in Memory of Greg Kinch Vista 12: Cashman Family Louis & Mary Ann Peoples in Honor of Jessica & Paul Jameson Roald Waraas Roger Delgado Vista 13: Kern Schumacher Larry & Cathy Switzer Janet & Monte Klein Family Foundation Schatzi Boyd Kerry & Greg Donovan Vista 14: Jan & Julie Clark and Norm Pease Tahoe Ski Bum Sheryl Johnson Family & Friends, in Memory of Tim Johnson Sandra & Russ Bradford, in Honor Lynne Doyle Vista 15:­ Steve & Sandy Hardie – Arthur Winkleback of Ben & Cassie McClure Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Jagjit Kaur Chuck & Judy Drake Carol & Bill Yeates Chloe & Caitlin Branson Vista 16: Janet Mullen Jennifer Kinch, in Memory of Gregory Hilton Kinch Bill & Beth Drewes Karen Zito – Lynn Brown, in Memory of La Bodeguita Del Medio – Lara & Michael Ekwall John & Heidi Drum, Kiosk 1: Dan Brower & Family Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Ed Wurtele in Honor of Milken Family Foundation Don & Patti Hill Kiosk 2: Les Busick Steve & Patrice Bruni Don Duckworth, Kiosk 3: Raley’s Foundation Michele & DJ Novotney $100+ in Memory of Julia Nickles Bryan Carol & Joseph Page – Schwab Charitable Fund John & Gladys Aadland Daryl Robert Duckworth Patty & John Buchanan Bill & Laura Durica Interpretive Panels Gary & Sharon Prosenko Cathy & Mike Abelson Bob & Margo Burdette Hank Echter & Karolina Hedman NV Energy Foundation Anne & Marty Putnam Muriel Del Agostino John Butera Michael Ekwall, in Honor of Michael Schaufeld, in Honor of Michael Sandler Judy Alioto $5000 – Trout Pavers James & Molly Butler Lou & Barbara Steck Casey Schmidt & Jennifer Cannon Lisa & Mike Allred Andrew Sabin Family Foundation John Butler Mark, Mary, Jessica, & David Ellingson Kuo & Tricia Tong Adam Althoff Isagenix International Laurie Byren Erin Ellis The Verstappen Family Foundation John Althoff Curtis Campi David Faucher

23 24 Gavin Feiger Norman Howard Eugene Lee Shawn O’Hara, in Memory of Steve & Jan Schonhaut Bill & Patty Tamblyn Dan Finkelsetin Sue Hughes Lisa & Austin Lellis Pat O’Hara Susan Schrader Joseph & Thomasine Tavormina John Finn, in Memory of Dawn Finn Margaret Hughes, in Honor of Michael Lellis Shawn O’Hara, in Honor of Lesley & James Schroder Lesle Thomas,in Honor of Jan Hughes Shawn O’Hara and Steve Binder Christopher Finne Thomas Leone Lesley & James Schroder, in Honor The Robert R. Bush Family Gareth Fong Margaret Hughes, in Honor of Robert & Leslie Levy Tom & Chris Anne Olenic, of Jennifer & Michael Suter Family Terri & Doug Thompson,in Memory Janet & Brian Davis in Memory of Greg Kinch Daniel Ford David & Rita Levy Karen Schumann of Greg Kinch Mark Irving Todd Oliver Ryan Forvilly Melissa Lewis Cliff Schuyler Laurie Thoms Tasa Herndon, Roger Herndon & Sharon Oosterman Jane Frank, in Honor of Jeff, Charlie Lincoln Jane Seaman, in Honor of Gary Thomsen,in Honor of Valerie Scatena – Island Framing Theresa & Frank Papandrea Mariel Thomsen Heidi, & Heather Frank Rebecca Lincoln Ed Scott & Leslie Seaman Angela James, in Honor of Stephen & Marianne Pearsall Gwen Davis Toso Jane Frank Ashlyn Pepper James Kathryn Little, in Memory of Tanya Seidel Bill & Amuer Phillips Trimberger Family Foundation, Jonathan Fuhrman Angela James, in Honor of Donna & Jaime Flota John Selix Carole Polito in Honor of The Trimberger Family Catherine Furco Daisy Leanne James Ana Liu Roy Shellow Foundation Mike Gabor Dick & Becky Johnson Jennifer Lloyd Amanda Poole, in Memory of Jamie & Steve Sidells Greg Kinch Pamela & Alex Tsigdinos Donna Gallo Tracey Johnson Joan Lloyd Jo Anne Silber Kelsey Porter, in Honor of Kimberly Uberti Viktor Lockhart Brian Gerhart Kent Johnson Samantha Porter Shirley P. Susan Silveira, in Memory of Paul & Sharon Van Iderstine Michael William Silveira Ned Gian Shane Johnson Maureen Lowe Suzanne & Randy Pottle Ken Venis, in Honor of P. Susan Silveira, in Memory of Cathy Gibb, in Honor of Gail Kane Scott & Susan Maltz Bob & Eleanor Preger Memphis Jerome Venis Glenn S. Gibb D.D.S. Miriam M. Silveira Dominik Karelus David Marston Jeffrey Quinn Lee Weber-Koch, in Honor of John & Sonja Glenn Creighton Skau June Towill Brown John & Catherine Kerns Linda Martinez Karen Rabak Gwen & Phil Gluckman Allan Slocum, in Honor of Lee Weber-Koch, in Honor of Scott Kiernan Linda Mendonsa Jeanne Radtke Margot & Jerry Robert Goldberg Chase International Mark Kimbrough Chris Mertens Phil & Roberta Rice Winifred Smith Chris Gonfiantini Lee Weber-Koch, in Honor of Ron & Leesa Kirkish Thomas Mertens Alvyn Richards Betsy & Jim Smrha Gloria & Paul Levy Edward & Cornelia Gould Mark Kirkland Sarah Miller Kristoff Richter Carol & Jim Snodgress John & Ellen Whitesell Michele Grau-Young Jane Kirton Michael & Jeanne Milligan Dave & Debbie Richwood Cindy & Grant Soremekun Mark D. Williams Randall Greer Jasmine & Levi Kleiber James Mills Jackson Ring William Spain Donald & Alexandra Willoughby Magda Greyling Joanne Monardo, Ivan Koon in Honor of Dave & Liz Ritchie, in Honor of Judy Speck, in Memory of Jim Speck Winetsky Partners Deborah Hager-Woodcock Joanne, Rosie & GiGi Monardo Tamara & Jay Kornmayer Cory Ritchie Judy Speck, in Memory of Andrew Wolf Steve & Cheryl Hale Mike & Bette Morgan Brian & Kelly Krolicki Patti Rittling, in Memory of Lloyd & Anne Ghiselli Stanley Wolken Collin Harris William Morris Greg Kinch Rusmin Kudinar Tom & Sue Sperry John Woll Arthur & Kimberly Harton, James Lamb, in Honor of Jeff & Lori Morrison Dr. Mary Lee Rogers Jeff & Linda Starr in Memory of Greg Kinch Ira & Eleanor Wong Heather Lamb Melissa Murphy, in Honor of James & Amy Rosborough Layne & Lisa Statner Pete Henderson Donovan Michael Murphy Cay & Greg Woodson James Lamb, in Memory of Timothy Rowe Stephanie Stephens, in Honor of Michael Murphy Ed & Anne Wustefeld Elizabeth Hendrickson, in Honor of David Lamb Timothy Rowe, in Honor of John R. Stephens William Hendrickson IV Margaret Yost Cheryl Lancaster Bill & Helen Neff Christopher C. Rowe Jan Stevens, in Honor of Chris Stevens Timothy & Annette Heying Cliff Young Renzo Lardelli Sherily Nemedez Christopher Rugaard Lynn Stewart Randy Hill Erwin & Stephanie Young Timothy Layhee Paul Newnham The Rugaard Family Living Trust, Donald & Tracy Stroh David Hoffman in Memory of Ozzie & Nola Rugaard McAvoy Layne David & Darlene Nilsson Chris Corr Sully Melissa & Daniel HoMo Elizabeth Saint McAvoy Layne, in Honor of Greg Novak Jana Sunshine Dorothy Makley

25 26 Gold – $10,000 Randy Hill Tim & Denise Cashman Meganne & Mark Houghton-Berry Richard & Theresa Crocker Fred & Barbara Ilfeld E. L. Cord Foundation Jaquish & Kenninger Foundation Cindy Gustafson & Wally Auerbach Vicki & Roger Kahn Eric Havian & Jean Jarvis Lahontan Community Foundation Joanne Marchetta Sharon Lane Mathewson Trust Lawrence Realty Silver – $5,000 Stephen A. Lind Jean & Wayne Lowell Arbor Realty Trust Carol & Craig Lundin Ascent Environmental Nancy & Charles McDermid Allen & Linda Biaggi Dean & Madylon Meiling – Spirit of the Lake Fund Amy Berry Dan Morgan Seth Berry Tom Mertens & Barbara Krause Jim & Cathy Boyd NV Energy California 89 Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Blaise & Leslie Carrig Barbara Perlman-Whyman & Andrew Whyman Colleen & Art Chapman FOUNDERS CIRCLE DONORS Jim & Marianne Porter Brett & Karen Coleman Foundation Jon Q. & Ann S. Reynolds Fund DMB Pacific Patricia & Robert Ronald East West Partners/Tahoe Mountain thank you to our Founders Circle donors who environment. The campaign raised over a million Resort Foundation Mike & Carol Sabarese generously provided a sustainable foundation for the dollars from multi-year pledges and donations. Chuck & Sue Scharer Tahoe Fund’s future growth and service to the Tahoe Claudia A. Florsheim The Don & Janie Friend Family Michael Schaufeld Ken & Gina Gardner Fred Smith Joan Gibb Carol & Ned Spieker Platinum – $25,000+ Steven Merrill Scott Gillespie, Maja Thaler & Family Lynn M. Suter Blum Family Foundation Bob & Cindy Pester Family Max & Nancy Gisko Tahoe Beach Club Cory & Ryan Ritchie – Edgewood Companies Jason & Melissa Green Daniel Tosh Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Jan & David Hardie – Chuck Greene Terry Watt & Mark Karwowski Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Serendipity Fund – Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Samuel & Suzanne Harrosh E.L. Wiegand Foundation The Sandra & Steven Hardie Fund – Karen & Andy Wirth Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Shackleton Family Thelma B. & Thomas P. Hart Foundation Roger & Bea Wittenberg JMA Ventures Squaw Valley Bob & Tammy Hassett Patrick & Rachel Wright Robert S. & Dorothy J. Keyser Foundation Vail Resorts Dr. Laurence Heifetz & Dr. Daphne Palmer

27 Image courtesy Vaibhav Tripathi, www.lyricaloutdoors.com | 28 FRIENDS OF TAHOE DONORS Pathfinder – $250+ David Jinkens Belle Haven Realty Co. Robert & Michelle Larsen Champion – $2,500+ Rick Stephens Gordan H. Depaoli Robert Quinlan Capurro Foundation Daniel Tosh Linda & Alvaro Pascotto Charitable Foundation The Dave & Kathy Pasek Family Confidence Foundation Samir Tuma and Kriss Deiglmeier Muriel & Fred Rosenfeld Katherine Sanders Paul & DD Felton Stephen Van Dusen Betty Stanko Tom Schaefer Joshua Hatch – Marin Community Foundation Harvey & Leslie Wagner Foundation Jim Teddy Elizabeth Wannenmacher Wanderlust Festival, LLC Mathewson Charitable Lead Trust Two William Wendin Mathewson Charitable Lead Trust One John Williams Explorer – $100+ Milthorpe Sports, LLC Friend – $50+ The Abbe Tahoe Property Trust NVE Holdings, LLC Adventurer – $500+ Brody Family Charitable Gift Fund – Fidelity Nancy Alvarez Charitable Gift Fund Janet & Harry Chapman Janet Baldwin John Chase Trailblazer – $1,000+ Jonathan Fredricks Allen Biaggi Syl & Jerry Colligan Brigham Family – Stephen Gill Lawrence Frith Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Mike Bradford Tom MacBride Bruce Eisner and Sandy Hill John & Patty Brissenden Timothy Bradley Aramie McDonald JT Holmes Richard Chambers and Bonnie McGregor – Garth Casaday Thomas Mertens Schwab Charitable Fund Roy R.J. Clason, Jr. Pierre Robert Chris & Marilyn Nolet Max Gisko Heidi Hill Drum Thomas Schaefer Olander Family Foundation Kirk Hardie Susan L. Durbin Robyn Shields Lawrence Sidney – Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Scott & Monica Hill Janet Elmore Sliwkowsky Fund – Elizabeth Holmes Renaissance Charitable Foundation, Inc. Phyllis Farr – Stephen Lind – Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Steve & Betsy Young Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Graham Geiselman

Tahoe Spirits, Inc. Nancy Gibson

29 30 2015 2014

unrestricted temp. restricted total total Assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 101,533 $ 64,840 $ 166,373 $ 671,799 Beneficial interests in assets held at community foundations 597,675 944,759 1,542,434 0 Contracts receivable 4,286 0 4,286 18,946 Contributions receivable, net 50,776 381,231 432,007 119,966 Prepaid expenses 1,864 0 1,864 3,900 Fixed assets, net 1,808 0 1,808 1,164

Total Assets $ 757,942 $ 1,390,830 $ 2,148,772 $ 815,775

Liabilities and Net Assets liabilities

Accounts payable $ 4,470 $ 0 $ 4,470 $ 21,899 Grants payable 0 0 0 83,380 Advance payments 0 0 0 19,150 Accrued payroll liabilities 1,194 0 1,194 1,096 Funds held for others 19,546 0 19,546 11,964

Total Liabilities 25,210 0 25,210 $ 137,489

net assets

Unrestricted 653,914 0 653,914 $ 551,970 Board designated endowment 78,818 0 78,818 0 FINANCIALS Restricted 0 1,390,830 1,390,830 126,316

Total Net Assets 732,732 1,390,830 2,123,562 $ 678,286 the tahoe fund opened investment accounts Harbor Bike Path. In addition, the board started en- at Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation to invest dowments at the Parasol Tahoe Community Founda- Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 757,942 $ 1,390,830 $ 2,148,772 $ 815,775 short-term project funds, operating funds and the tion and the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation. long-term maintenance fund for the Incline to Sand

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