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Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation at a glance

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Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$525k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$901kHealth$601kReligion$326kCrime & Legal$88kHuman Services$41kHousing & Shelter$17kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$6,750
Median grant
4
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNLV FOUNDATION$250,000
BYU$200,000
MAYO CLINIC$20,000
EAGLE VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOME$10,000
TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION$10,000
HUNDLEY FOUNDATION$10,000
LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$6,750
FIRST CHOICE PREGNANCY SERVICES$5,000
CHILDREN'S SERVICE GUILD OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$5,000
TRINITY CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST$3,000
CALVARY CHAPEL GREEN VALLEY$2,500
CALVARY REDROCK CHURCH$2,000
FAITH COMMUNICATIONS CORP$1,000
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 (FY18–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FIRST CHOICE PREGNANCY SERVICES: $5k → 8%NEVADA CHILDRENS FDN (EAGLE VALLEY CHILDRENS): $3k → 13%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $10k → 10%GILBERT RANCH FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%LIVING GRACE HOMES: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
ND
MN
IL
OR
NV
CA
UT
CO
MO
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
LA
MS
AL
TX
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 34% of Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dayna Lynn Ahern Foundationlessmore 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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 8 repeat orgs$566k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
89

Total granted

$1.1M
$335k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+21%

Still filing today

38%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $450k · revenue +68%
  • BY
    BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $400k
  • CR
    CALVARY REDROCK CHURCH
    2× · 2024–2025 · $102k

Funded once

  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • KC
    KOOTENAI COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
    one grant, 2023 · $82k
  • TW
    The Wounded Bluegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +93%
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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Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Nevada Health Centers Inc

NVHC provides health services throughout the State of Nevada. Health services include OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Primary medical, Behavioral Health and dental care services. NVHC operates a mobile mammography clinic, two mobile…

Health
3
Nevada Right to Life Foundation

Provide prolife education and outreach activities throughout the state of nevada

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4
Firstmed Health and Wellness Center

FirstMed Health and Wellness is a nonprofit community healthcare clinic providing mental health and preventive and primary health care services to individuals and families in Southern Nevada.

Health
5
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
6
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
7
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
8
Nevada Healthright

Nevada HealthRight exists to serve the forensic healthcare needs of Nevada residents and visitors by providing excellence in clinical forensic healthcare services, violence prevention, education, and research.

Health
9
Desert Rose Womens Resource Center

Desert Rose Women's Resource Center is a Christian organization whose primary mission is to offer relevant, life affirming medical information to women and men considering abortion.

Human Services
10
Washoe Barton Medical Clinic

Our mission is to care for your health and wellness. Our vision is to strengthen our community by providing accessible, affordable, high quality healthcare to all.

Health
11
Westcare Nevada Inc

To provide substance abuse prevention & treatment.

Health
12
Nevada Medical Center Inc

The nevada medical center seeks to eliminate teen suicide and empower nevada's youth to live hopeful lives.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada Children's Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gilbert Ranch Foundation. 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

19 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. 19 of the 105 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYBYU: $200,000 · OtherBYUCALVARY REDROCK CHURCH: $102,000 · OtherCALVARY REDROCK CHURCHCLEVELAND CLINIC: $100,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINICKOOTENAI COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $82,163 · OtherKOOTENAI COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE+84 more: $162,266 · Other+84 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $450,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS V…Texas A&M Foundation: $20,000 · Education+1 more: $3,500 · EducationMAYO CLINIC: $320,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICWOMENS RESOURCE MEDICAL CENTERS: $79,000 · HealthWOMENS RESOURCE MEDICAL …The Wounded Blue: $30,000 · HealthThe Wounded BlueLIVING GRACE HOMESINC: $10,000 · Human ServicesIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $9,900 · Human ServicesFIRST CHOICE PREGNANCY SERVICES: $5,000 · Human ServicesNEVADA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesGILBERT RANCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesHUNDLEY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MOONRIDGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S SERVICE GUILD OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5,000 · Crime & LegalTORTOISE GROUP: $3,000 · EnvironmentFAITH COMMUNICATIONS CORP: $1,000 · Religion
Other$1,046,429Education$473,500Health$429,000Human Services$28,400Philanthropy$13,000Crime & Legal$5,000Environment$3,000Religion$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $320,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE MEDICAL CENTERS: $79,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetThe Wounded Blue: $30,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING GRACE HOMESINC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $9,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $6,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR POSITIVELY KIDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICE GUILD OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetLUTHERAN ACADEMY OF THE MASTER INC DBA SUMMIT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MOONRIDGE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORTOISE GROUP: $3,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNEVADA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA BETTER CHOICE PREGNANCY SERVICES FIRST CHOICE PREGNANCY SERVICES: $1,038 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH COMMUNICATIONS CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGILBERT RANCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 13% 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE MEDICAL CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds The Wounded Blue ↗
  • Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
  • Who funds LIVING GRACE HOMESINC ↗
  • Who funds HUNDLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR POSITIVELY KIDS ↗
  • Who funds FIRST CHOICE PREGNANCY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICE GUILD OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN ACADEMY OF THE MASTER INC DBA SUMMIT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE MOONRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TORTOISE GROUP ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds A BETTER CHOICE PREGNANCY SERVICES FIRST CHOICE PREGNANCY SERVICES ↗

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.

The US Charitable Gif…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The US Charitable Gift TrustMA11× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 105 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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