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Andress Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $157k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Nevada Ballet Theatre | $100,000 |
| YMCA of Southern Nevada | $56,500 |
| Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada | $25,000 |
| Nevada State University Foundation | $20,000 |
| Keep Memory Alive | $12,000 |
| Laguna Beach Police Foundation | $6,000 |
| Vegas PBS | $5,000 |
| Lutheran Social Services of Nevada | $5,000 |
| SHERO Foundation | $2,500 |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | $2,500 |
| Junior League of Las Vegas | $1,946 |
| CHP 11-99 Foundation | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Andress Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in NV; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NBNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +44%
- YOYMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA7× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +85%
- JLJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS5× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- SSSam Schmidt Foundation - Conquer Paralysis Nowone grant, 2024 · $25k
- CPCONQUER PARALYSIS NOWone grant, 2023 · $25k
- NSNevada State Universityone grant, 2024 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The nevada council on problem gambling is a non-profit information and referral agency whose efforts are focused on reducing the impact of problem gambling on individuals, families and communities in nevada. it is the mission of the nevada…
New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.
Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.
To solicit applications for americorps funding and to support the volunteer infrastructure in nevada.
Lacsn's mission is the preservation of access to justice and the provision of quality legal counsel, advice and representation for individuals who are unable to protect their rights because they cannot afford an attorney.
As nevada's federally designated primary care association, nvpca promotes access to affordable, comprehensive & quality health care for nevada's underserved populations. we support & advocate on behalf of member community health centers,…
Through feeding the hungry, support, and care, we provide redemption, recovery, and re-entry to the homeless, addicted, and those in need.
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that raises and manages private funds for the benefit of UNLV. Our mission is to increase philanthropic support for the university, grow its endowment for…
The children's advocacy alliance is an independent voice for nevada's children, advancing systemic change in the areas of early childhood education, children's health, and child welfare. we achieve public policy wins through collaboration…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southern Nevada and the most unlike its peers is The Annie Appleseed Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds NEVADA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS EMPOWERMENT MIDDLE SCHOOL LV ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds INJURED POLICE OFFICERS FUND ↗
- Who funds Laguna Beach Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds The Annie Appleseed Project ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds LAS VEGAS AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Cashman Family Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation · Mondays Dark · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · America's Charities
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Andress Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.