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Andre Agassi Foundation for Education

THE ORGANIZATION IS DEDICATED TO TRANSFORMING U.S.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$625k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$20MHealth$4.5MEnvironment$2.0MRecreation & Sports$1.9MYouth Development$1.4MCivil Rights$746kReligion$565kAnimals$556kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $768k
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.7M
$25,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$122M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CENTER FOR MIND BODY MEDICINE$624,796
KEEP MEMORY ALIVE$500,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
GREEN OUR PLANET$362,500
FULFILLMENT FUND$250,000
TWILIGHT SPRINGS HORSE SANCTUARY$250,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAS VEGAS$250,000
CURE4THEKIDS$150,000
LEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$150,000
PERICHORESIS$100,000
WM PAUL YOUNG INITIATIVE INC$90,000
CRISTO REY ST VIATOR$68,000
EARN TO LEARN$60,000
THREE SQUARE$50,000
CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EARN TO LEARN: $60k → 15%SPORTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $150k → 10%EARN TO LEARN: $50k → 15%LEARNING ALLY INC: $2.5M → 11%EARN TO LEARN: $50k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 13%THE IMMIGRANT HOME FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%THE IMMIGRANT HOME FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $100k → 13%BE A SHERO FOUNDATION: $8k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
IN
OH
NJ
RI
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Andre Agassi Foundation for Education’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in NV; by stated purpose, 45%.

Andre Agassi Foundation for Educationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 50 repeat orgs$6.6M to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
60

Total granted

$27M
$5.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+41%

Still filing today

62%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $794k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DP
    DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    3× · 2017–2023 · $8.3M · revenue +33% · 40% of their budget
  • GO
    GREEN OUR PLANET
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +122%
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • Learning Ally Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $2.5M · revenue -4%
  • AA
    ANDRE AGASSI COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY
    one grant, 2017 · $804k
  • O1
    OPPORUNITY 180
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
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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Nevada Succeeds

Our membership is united in pursuit of immediate and continuous improvements to the state's education system. we support an ambitious, agressive and comprehensive reform agenda to dramatically increase the college and workforce readiness…

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2
Sports Leadership and Management Academy of Nevada

The mission of slam nv is to prepare students for postsecondary studies and careers through an engaging educational program emphasizing sports leadership and management career preparation. the school program will offer students in grades…

Education
3
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
4
Leadership Foundation of Greater Las Veg

The mission of the Leadership Foundation of Greater Las Vegas, Inc. is to build Southern Nevada community's capacity to lead, educate and develop talent. The Foundation offers signature programs that cultivate business and community…

Community Improvement
5
Clv Strong Start Academy Elementary Schools Inc

The mission of strong start academy elementary school (ssaes) is to provide equitable, high-quality academics as we prepare our bilingual, civic-minded thinkers to maximize their potential in their community and the world. saes is…

Education
6
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
7
Coral Academy of Science Las Vegas

The mission of caslv is to inspire and empower all students to achieve their highest potential through a rigourous, college-preparatory, and culturally responsive stem education that fosters innovation, critical thinking, and a lifelong…

Education
8
Healthy Nevada
Health
9
Startup Vegas

StartUp Vegas is a 501c3 nonprofit whose mission is to boost the startup culture and create an environment of entrepreneurship. By building the infrastructure needed for a sustainable startup ecosystem, this grassroots effort will provide…

Community Improvement
10
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
11
Vegas Vista Academy

Vegas Vista Academys mission is to break down the barriers set by traditional patterns of inequality through experience and education.

Education
12
Equipo Academy

To empower students to meet high expectations, excel to and through college, and become transformational leaders for east las vegas.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Usta Foundation Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Southern Nevada Musical Arts Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 128 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
58/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3,507,625 · OtherCLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTKEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $2,500,000 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVEBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAS VEGAS: $865,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAS VEGASANDRE AGASSI COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $803,756 · OtherCURE 4 THE KIDS: $726,400 · OtherFULFILLMENT FUND: $600,000 · Other+80 more: $6,416,371 · Other+80 moreDEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $8,317,752 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOL…+5 more: $85,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $865,895 · EducationUNIVERSITY…CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $600,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA…The Meadows School: $350,000 · EducationThe Meadow…University of Nevada Reno Foundation: $300,000 · EducationUniversity…OPPORTUNITY 180: $200,000 · EducationOPPORTUNIT…FULFILLMENT FUND LAS VEGAS: $200,000 · EducationFULFILLMEN…ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION: $159,273 · EducationTHE STEM ACADEMY INC: $159,000 · Education+9 more: $251,500 · Education+9 moreLearning Ally Inc: $2,500,000 · Human ServicesLearning …LIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $160,000 · Human ServicesLIVE THE …MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Human ServicesSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Human Services+3 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesGREEN OUR PLANET: $1,955,000 · EnvironmentTHE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE: $1,124,796 · HealthHEAL THE HERO FOUNDATION: $130,000 · HealthTeam Luke Hope for Minds: $120,000 · Health+5 more: $106,000 · HealthTWILIGHT SPRINGS HORSE SANCTUARY INC: $500,000 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Animals+1 more: $5,000 · Animals
Other$15,419,152Arts & Culture$8,402,752Education$3,085,668Human Services$2,945,000Environment$1,955,000Health$1,480,796Animals$555,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $8,317,752 over 3y, 40% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $2,500,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetGREEN OUR PLANET: $1,955,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE: $1,124,796 over 3y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $865,895 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTWILIGHT SPRINGS HORSE SANCTUARY INC: $500,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetCOLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE: $425,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetThe Meadows School: $350,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $300,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITY 180: $200,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND LAS VEGAS: $200,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetLIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN: $160,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetROCKETSHIP EDUCATION: $159,273 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE STEM ACADEMY INC: $159,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetATHLETES FOR HOPE: $155,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetHEAL THE HERO FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTeam Luke Hope for Minds: $120,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $110,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEVERY ELIGIBLE AMERICAN: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNEVADA ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWM PAUL YOUNG INITIATIVE: $90,000 over 1y, 61% of budgetLEAD Africa: $82,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCouncil for a Better Nevada: $65,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetKENNY GUINN CENTER FOR POLICY PRIORITIES: $55,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetPositively Arts: $55,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTEDS FOUNDATION INC: $54,300 over 2y, 34% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Augustine's University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOODIE TWO SHOES FOUNDATION INC: $47,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM SUCCESS A SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDRI RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEMOCRACY PREP AT THE AGASSI CAMPUS: $24,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN LAS VEGAS: $23,541 over 2y, 14% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds DEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREEN OUR PLANET ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TWILIGHT SPRINGS HORSE SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds The Meadows School ↗
  • Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY 180 ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND LAS VEGAS ↗
  • Who funds LIVE THE SOLUTION DBA EARN TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds ROCKETSHIP EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds THE STEM ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds ATHLETES FOR HOPE ↗
  • Who funds JACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEAL THE HERO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Team Luke Hope for Minds ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗

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.

Engelstad Family FoundationNV38.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Engelstad Family Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Canarelli Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Windsong Trust · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · The Boyd Family Foundation · Las Vegas Grand Prix Foundation · Cashman Family 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 Andre Agassi Foundation for Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andre Agassi Foundation for Education. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
18report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Andre Agassi Foundation for Education 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 128 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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