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Binion Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST ROUND ACADEMY | $45,000 |
| THE MEADOWS SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| CHEFS FOR KIDS | $35,000 |
| SUMMERLIN SOUTH LITTLE LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| MAKE A WISH | $25,000 |
| NEVADA CASA ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION DBA GET OUTDOORS NEVADA | $15,000 |
| CANDLELIGHTERS | $15,000 |
| CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT (WEST CTA SCHOOL) | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN NEVADA CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| NEVADA CONSERVATION LEAGUE EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| NEON MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $5,000 |
| NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of your 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- CFCHEFS FOR KIDS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +16% · 60% of their budget
- TMThe Meadows School5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +32%
- VIVMSN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +250%
Funded once
- GBGREAT BASIN INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +142%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
- NMNevada Museum of Artgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +111%
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 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…
The Nevada Conservation league protects Nevada's air, water, and health by promoting sensible conservation and environmental policies through education, advocacy and accountability.
Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.
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…
The purpose of nsea is to promote the cause of public education, the professions of teaching and education support personnel and the welfare of youth of nevada.
Educate Nevada Now (ENN) is a non-partisan education policy organization focused on ensuring that every Nevada child has access to a quality education, regardless of their family income or circumstances. ENN strives to make fair and…
To preserve and protect the special places and open spaces of nevada for future generations.
The Nevada Wildlife Federation is the Oldest 501(c)(3) statewide conservation organization dedicated to sustaining Nevada's wildlife through conservation and education.
To preserve and promote the television and radio industry throughout the state of nevada.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Nevada Public Television and the most unlike its peers is Summerlin South Little League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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 CHEFS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMERLIN SOUTH LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The Meadows School ↗
- Who funds NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT BASIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FIRST ROUND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds VMSN INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA CASA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN NEVADA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE NEON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Nevada Conservation League Ed Fund ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds THE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Positively Arts ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS ↗
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: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · McFadden Charitable Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · Andrew Family Foundation · Elaine P Wynn and Family Foundation Bt · Playstudios Impact Fund · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Dignity Health · Tides Foundation
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 Binion 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.
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