Nevada · Private foundation
Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $525k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 89%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 89% of the organizations Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $336k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $505k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $340k | 89% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $92k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $162k | 82% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $99k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $26k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $216k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation | $450,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Brigham Young University | $400,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Womens Resource Medical Centers | $79,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Wounded Blue | $30,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Calvary Chapel Green Valley | $11,950 | 2 | n/a |
| Living Grace Homesinc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hundley Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Idaho Youth Ranch Inc | $9,900 | 1 | 0% |
| Lake Mead Christian Ministries | $6,750 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation | $450,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Brigham Young University | $400,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Womens Resource Medical Centers | $79,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Wounded Blue | $30,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Calvary Chapel Green Valley | $11,950 | 2 | n/a |
| Living Grace Homesinc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hundley Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Idaho Youth Ranch Inc | $9,900 | 1 | 0% |
| Lake Mead Christian Ministries | $6,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Foundation for Positively Kids | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| First Choice Pregnancy Services | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Service Guild of Southern Nevada | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Lutheran Academy of the Master Inc Dba Summit Christian Academy | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Moonridge Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trinity Church of God in Christ Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tortoise Group | $3,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Nevada Children's Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| A Better Choice Pregnancy Services First Choice Pregnancy Services | $1,038 | 1 | 0% |
| Faith Communications Corp | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gilbert Ranch Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 13% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 83 recipients with no EIN on record ($619k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The US Charitable Gift Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation
- How much does Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation give?
- Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $525,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Health (30%), Religion (16%).
- Who are Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation ($450k), Brigham Young University ($400k), Womens Resource Medical Centers ($79k).
- Does Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The US Charitable Gift Trust, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation based?
- Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation is based in NV.
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