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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.

$265k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$280kFood & Nutrition$210kEnvironment$160kEducation$135kArts & Culture$125kHealth$105kHuman Services$90kPhilanthropy$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $245k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$5,000
NEON MUSEUM$5,000
NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREAT BASIN INSTITUTE: $50k → 10%NEVADA NORTHERN RAILWAY: $25k → 11%CHEFS FOR KIDS: $50k → 13%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $15k → 10%CHEFS FOR KIDS: $45k → 13%CHEFS FOR KIDS: $45k → 13%CHEFS FOR KIDS: $35k → 13%FIRST ROUND ACADEMY: $45k → 13%CHEFS FOR KIDS: $35k → 13%MAKE A WISH: $25k → 13%CANDLELIGHTERS: $20k → 13%MAKE A WISH: $25k → 13%CANDLELIGHTERS: $15k → 13%MAKE A WISH: $20k → 13%NEVADA CONSERVATION LEAGUE EDUCATION FUND: $15k → 13%MAKE A WISH: $20k → 13%LVR BASEBALL: $45k → 13%LVR BASEBALL: $45k → 13%LVR BASEBALL: $20k → 13%VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 13%VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 13%VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 13%NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO: $10k → 13%NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO: $10k → 13%NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO: $10k → 13%SOUTHERN NEVADA CONSERVANCY: $10k → 13%THE MEADOWS SCHOOL: $40k → 13%THE MEADOWS SCHOOL: $35k → 13%THE MEADOWS SCHOOL: $25k → 13%THE MEADOWS SCHOOL: $10k → 13%OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION DBA GET OUTDOORS NEVADA: $20k → 13%OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION DBA GET OUTDOORS NEVADA: $15k → 13%OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION DBA GET OUTDOORS NEVADA: $15k → 13%THE NEON MUSEUM: $10k → 13%THE NEON MUSEUM: $10k → 13%SUMMERLIN SOUTH LITTLE LEAGUE: $25k → 13%SUMMERLIN SOUTH LITTLE LEAGUE: $25k → 13%SUMMERLIN SOUTH LITTLE LEAGUE: $25k → 13%SUMMERLIN SOUTH LITTLE LEAGUE: $25k → 13%SUMMERLIN SOUTH LITTLE LEAGUE: $25k → 13%NEVADA CASA ASSOCIATION: $25k → 13%NEVADA CASA ASSOCIATION: $15k → 13%THE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION: $10k → 13%CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT (WEST CTA SCHOOL): $10k → 13%CANDLELIGHTERS: $15k → 13%NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%MARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$970k · 14 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
9

Total granted

$970k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+95%

Still filing today

64%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • CF
    CHEFS FOR KIDS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +16% · 60% of their budget
  • TM
    The Meadows School
    5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +32%
  • VI
    VMSN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +250%

Funded once

  • GB
    GREAT BASIN INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +142%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • NM
    Nevada Museum of Artgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +111%
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.

1
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 Conservation League

The Nevada Conservation league protects Nevada's air, water, and health by promoting sensible conservation and environmental policies through education, advocacy and accountability.

—
4
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
5
The Nevada Discovery Museum

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

—
6
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
7
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
8
Nevada State Education Association

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.

—
9
Educate Nevada Now

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…

—
10
Nevada Land Trust

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

—
11
Nevada Wildlife Federation

The Nevada Wildlife Federation is the Oldest 501(c)(3) statewide conservation organization dedicated to sustaining Nevada's wildlife through conservation and education.

Animals
12
Nevada Broadcasters Association

To preserve and promote the television and radio industry throughout the state of nevada.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Nevada Public Television; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $110,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAKE A WISH: $90,000 · OtherMAKE A WISHCANDLELIGHTERS: $50,000 · OtherCANDLELIGHTERSOUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION DBA GET OUTDOORS NEVADA: $50,000 · OtherOUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION DBA GET OUTD…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVMSN INC: $40,000 · OtherVMSN INCFIRST ROUND ACADEMY: $45,000 · OtherFIRST ROUND ACADEMY+5 more: $40,000 · Other+5 moreCHEFS FOR KIDS INC: $210,000 · Food & NutritionCHEFS FOR KIDS INCSUMMERLIN SOUTH LITTLE LEAGUE: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentSUMMERLIN SOUTH …NEVADA CASA ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEVADA CASA ASSO…THE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SHAQUILLE O'…The Meadows School: $125,000 · EducationThe Meadows…GREAT BASIN INSTITUTE: $50,000 · EnvironmentGREAT BAS…SOUTHERN NEVADA CONSERVANCY: $30,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN …Nevada Conservation League Ed Fund: $25,000 · EnvironmentNevada Co…NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO: $40,000 · Arts & CultureNEVADA PU…THE NEON MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEON …Nevada Museum of Art: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNevada Mu…Positively Arts: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePositivel…SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN …NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Philanthropy
Other$450,000Food & Nutrition$210,000Youth Development$175,000Education$125,000Environment$105,000Arts & Culture$100,000Philanthropy$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHEFS FOR KIDS INC: $210,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetSUMMERLIN SOUTH LITTLE LEAGUE: $125,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetThe Meadows School: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT BASIN INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEVADA PUBLIC RADIO: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVMSN INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEVADA CASA ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSOUTHERN NEVADA CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEON MUSEUM: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNevada Conservation League Ed Fund: $25,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARTY HENNESSY INSPIRING CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPositively Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 …Mgm Resorts FoundationMcFadden Charitable F…Engelstad Family Foun…Andrew Family Foundat…Elaine P Wynn and Fam…Playstudios Impact Fu…Wynn Resorts Foundati…Vegas Golden Knights …Nevada Community Foun…Dignity HealthTides Foundation
NV Energy Charitable FoundationNV26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Binion Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Binion Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    8report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Binion Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Binion 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 26 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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