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AJ Koval Family Foundation at a glance

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AJ Koval Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$127kYouth Development$97kSocial Science$64kEducation$60kEnvironment$20kHuman Services$17kHousing & Shelter$15kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada$25,000
Nevada Policy Research Institute$10,000
SOS Outreach$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Tahoe Fund$5,000
Community Foundation$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Project 150: $5k → 13%Classical Tahoe: $3k → 10%Classical Tahoe: $3k → 10%Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$420k · 20 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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27

Total granted

$420k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
-1%

Still filing today

70%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NP
    NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $64k · revenue +87%
  • NM
    Nevada Museum of Art
    5× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +199%
  • DC
    DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM
    3× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Smith Center for the Performing Artsgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +41%
  • P1
    PROJECT 150
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -15%
  • PO
    PROTECTORS OF TULE SPRINGS
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -4%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Nevada State Parks Foundation

The nevada state parks foundation is dedicated to enhancing and preserving the natural beauty, cultural heritage and recreational opportunities within the nevada division of state parks. the foundation is committed to supporting the…

Environment
3
Nevada Land Trust

To preserve and protect the special places and open spaces of nevada for future generations.

—
4
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
5
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
6
Nevada State College Foundation

The mission of the nevada state college foundation board of trustees is to serve as ambassadors for nevada state college, to serve as fiduciary stewards of funds received by the foundation, and to raise funds in support of the educational,…

Education
7
Unlv Research Foundation

The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…

Science & Tech
8
Nevada Gold Mines Heritage Fund
Philanthropy
9
Nevada Mining Association

To further the interests of the mining industry in nevada.

—
10
Nevada School of the Arts

At nevada school of the arts (nsa), our mission is to provide a dynamic and inclusive performing and visual arts education to a diverse community of students spanning all ages and backgrounds. while educating the artists and audiences of…

Arts & Culture
11
Fair Government Nevada

To promote fair government practices and for all other legal purposes

—
12
The Nevada Discovery Museum

Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Womens Resource Medical Centers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
21/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $63,500 · OtherNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $16,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSierra Nevada College: $14,230 · OtherSierra Nevada CollegeTHE SHADE TREE INC: $13,500 · OtherTHE SHADE TREE INCIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+24 more: $42,950 · Other+24 moreNevada Museum of Art: $54,500 · Arts & CultureNevada Museum of ArtDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUMWESTERN FOLKLIFE CENTER INC: $15,500 · Arts & CultureWESTERN FOLKLIFE CENTER INCTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATI…The Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $7,500 · Arts & CultureThe Smith Center for the Per…ORGONYM: $4,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $4,700 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $85,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT …UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…University of Nevada Reno Foundation: $19,700 · EducationUniversit…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTAHOE FUND: $15,000 · EnvironmentPROTECTORS OF TULE SPRINGS: $5,000 · EnvironmentCLASSICAL TAHOE: $5,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT 150: $5,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $1,000 · Human ServicesLIVING GRACE HOMESINC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Foundation of Northern Nevada: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DARREN WALLER FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · PhilanthropyNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$196,680Arts & Culture$121,700International$85,000Education$40,700Environment$20,000Human Services$12,500Philanthropy$9,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $85,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $63,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $54,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $19,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN FOLKLIFE CENTER INC: $15,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTAHOE FUND: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Nevada College: $14,230 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSICAL TAHOE: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT 150: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Northern Nevada: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOS OUTREACH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORGONYM: $4,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE DARREN WALLER FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEON MUSEUM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEVADA WOMEN'S FUND: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE MEDICAL CENTERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClark County Medical Society Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING GRACE HOMESINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE: $820 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

NV Energy Charitable …Tahoe Community Found…Nevada Community Foun…United Way of Souther…Mgm Resorts FoundationElaine P Wynn and Fam…Canarelli Family Foun…Engelstad Family Foun…Alan and Christy Mola…Cashman Family Founda…Wynn Resorts Foundati…The Tito and Sandra T…
NV Energy Charitable FoundationNV40.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Southern Nevada · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Elaine P Wynn and Family Foundation Bt · Canarelli Family Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · Alan and Christy Molasky Charitable Foundation · Cashman Family Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · The Tito and Sandra Tiberti Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization AJ Koval Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from AJ Koval Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to AJ Koval Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to AJ Koval Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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