NON PROFITS
Since 2018, Gear Hut has helped raise over $89,500 for NPOs
2025/2026 Applications are CLOSED! Next year's applications will be accepted in July/August.
From improving trails, getting youth outside to explore, to serving and protecting Nevada wild lands, these NPOs are passionate about our local outdoor community. Gear Hut offers the option to donate your portion of the profit to any of the non-profits listed below.
Our Non-Profit Organizations are featured as the "Non Profit of the Month" at the store twice a year. We also host a "10% of sales" donation days where Gear Hut donates a portion of the day's total sales to the featured NPO.
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Introducing Gear Hut's 2025/2026 NPO Partners:
Skiing is Believing:
Our goal is "To promote, support & ease access to outdoor sports".
Skiing is Believing / Biking is Believing offers year round day camps, after school and coaching programs for ALL children, and some limited offerings for adults, focused on a variety of sport and community service to help develop life skills. Sport & physical activity have the power to change lives in numerous capacities and while SIB focuses on snow & bike sports, our programming offers over 40 different sports to all people no matter their background or experience. ​
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Hasty Team: The Washoe County Sheriff's Hasty Team is a multi-disciplinary technical Search & Rescue team located in Reno, NV comprised of non-paid professionals dedicated to helping others in our community and the surrounding region when they need it most. Our Mission is to provide the highest level of Search & Rescue skill and best possible care to those we get called upon for assistance.
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Nevada Nordic:
Nevada Nordic is bringing Nordic Skiing back to Nevada! We provide 19km of groomed multi-use winter trails for FREE community access! Our organization is 100% donation-based, maintaining trails for all winter enthusiasts from Nordic skiers to snowshoers and fat bikers. Our high elevation near Mt. Rose meadows allows us to consistently provide quality grooming from December through April!
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Wildwood Open Lands Foundation: The Wildwood Open Lands Foundation is dedicated to conservation of natural and cultural resources. We promote conservation through adventures across Nevada and around the world – sharing our experiences as we travel, leading stewardship and conservation efforts in undeveloped/open lands in Nevada to support the public good, and providing education surrounding natural sciences, outdoor ethics, responsible recreation at the place where users meet the resource.
Great Basin Outdoor School:
Where students are immersed in day trips and multi-day overnight ecology camps in spectacular natural settings on Nevada’s shoreline of Lake Tahoe and other local sites. Students hike, snowshoe, learn local ecology with hands-on standards-based activities, and volunteer on conservation projects. Teachers get professional development courses and young adults get leadership training and experience. Great Basin Outdoor School operates exclusively in Nevada and has served thousands of children and adults as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit since 1998. Children in need are included thanks to generous community support.
Sky Tavern:
Nowhere in the community is the next generation of public-driven trail innovation occurring as rapidly and enthusiastically as Sky Tavern. The mission: to provide outdoor recreation to all in winter with their ski programs and summer with their bike park. Sky Tavern open avenues to all by providing outdoor recreation regardless of one’s physical, mental, or financial means.
