· Public charity
Dinosaurs and Roses
To support the global environment by encouraging the recycling of goods and material while at the same time providing a dignified environment for those in need to recieve necessities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k13 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $621k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $346k
- $250k+2 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Silver State Scholarship | $3,590,722 |
| Desert Torah Academy | $464,056 |
| Lake Mead Christian Academy | $67,596 |
| Faith Lutheran MSHS | $60,472 |
| St Viator Catholic School | $57,066 |
| Green Valley Christian School | $55,482 |
| St Christopher Catholic School | $52,526 |
| St Anne Catholic School | $52,515 |
| Calvary Chapel Christian School | $41,262 |
| Yeshiva Day School | $38,764 |
| Bishop Gorman HS | $35,675 |
| St Francis de Sales Catholic | $34,413 |
| Cornerstone Christian Academy | $34,069 |
| Applied Scholastics Academy | $33,000 |
| Our Lady of Las Vegas Catholic School | $30,028 |
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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
47 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.
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
- LMLAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES6× · 2017–2022 · $308k · revenue +84%
- YDYESHIVA DAY SCHOOL OF LAS VEGAS6× · 2017–2022 · $230k · revenue +338%
- LILIBER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $209k · revenue +312%
Funded once
- TSThe Sagebrush Strategiesone grant, 2021 · $23k
- OLOUR LADY OF THE SNOWS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $6k
- KRKIDS R KIDS-JONESone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
To provide high quality academics to k-5 students
Christian School grades k-8
To create a community of learners where strong christian character is built and academic excellence is achieved through a university model christ-centered education
Provide classroom instruction and educational services to K-12 students
A private co-education day school that helps children in grades k-12th with specific learning differences and unique learning styles think critically and develop a strong foundation to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
Pinnacle Christian School serves to meet the education needs of families in the greater Parker County area by providing complete, advanced, Bible-based academic K-8th grade instruction taught by highly-qualified teachers on Tuesdays and…
Provide quality christian education built on a firm foundation of biblical truths and academic excellence to prepare our students for successful christian living
The mission of victory christian academy, in partnership with christian parents, is to provide a loving, christ-centered environment of educational excellence so that the students may develop their gifts, knowledge, skills and energies to…
Classroom education in a non-denominational Christian environment for students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12.
Provide educational services on a christian based curriculum
The school operates a school and day care facility for preschool and grades k-12. the school follows the educational philosophy of providing education that develops and encourages the intellectual and spiritual growth of the child.
Nlt academy, inc. is a fully-accredited institution that fosters academic excellence and high achievement, educating in a christ-centered environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Mead Christian Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Excel Christian School. 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 35 years old; the field is 8. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 37% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 29% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 57 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 SILVER STATE SCHOLARSHIPS ↗
- Who funds LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Academy for Learning ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA DAY SCHOOL OF LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds LIBER INC ↗
- Who funds MESQUITE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISLAMIC FOUNDATION OF NEVADA ↗
- Who funds DR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EXCEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DESERT SAGE EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE DBA NEVADA SAGE WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ATERES BNOS ITA ↗
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: Silver State Scholarships · Education Fund of Northern Nevada · Las Vegas Clark County Urban League · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Tulsa Community Foundation · Three Square · Global Impact · Folds of Honor Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Dinosaurs and Roses 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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