· Private foundation
Earl and Elizabeth Ash Foundation of Nevada
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of EARL AND ELIZABETH ASH FOUNDATION OF NEVADA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADOPT A VET DENTAL PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| VETERANS GUESTHOUSE | $20,000 |
| CORAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE | $15,000 |
| RENO RODEO FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT | $12,500 |
| NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| PBS RENO - KNPB | $10,000 |
| THE EDDY HOUSE | $7,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| KIDS AND HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $5,000 |
| SIERRA KIDS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RENO PHILHARMONIC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- AAADOPT A VET DENTAL PROGRAM INC8× · 2018–2025 · $195k · revenue +187%
- VGVeterans Guest House Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +201%
- NNNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- CCCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +160%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADAone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue 0%
- CRCanine Rehabilitation Center and Cat Sanctuarygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +165%
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 social, emotional, educational, and psychological support and programs to families of all children diagnosed with life threatening or critical illnesses and provide healing arts and wellness programs to adults touched by cancer…
The nevada kids foundation is a children's non profit that provides essential items and resources to the struggling youth in our communities. our goal is to empower children to live a life with greater hope, freedom, and opportunities for…
Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.
To support, encourage and educate families of deaf and hard of hearing children to empower them to make choices that will enable their children to achieve their full potential.
Kids Chance of Nevada provides college and technical scholarships to the children of parents who have been killed or severely injured in a workplace accident in Nevada.
To support programs providing the highest quality service to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. these services include a residential program at eagle valley children's home and a respite program provided in the…
To provide the essential building blocks including extended educational cirriculum, extracurricular activities, social opportunities and transitional skills to children who are visually impaired. every child with a visual impairment…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Northern Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Canine Rehabilitation Center and Cat Sanctuary. 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 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 27 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 ADOPT A VET DENTAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Guest House Inc ↗
- Who funds Reno Rodeo Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds Sierra Kids Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS AND HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
- Who funds Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall ↗
- Who funds NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS ↗
- Who funds CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA ↗
- Who funds LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Canine Rehabilitation Center and Cat Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds SOLACETREE INC ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE FILMMAKERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
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: The E L Cord Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · The Marshall R Matley Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Renown Health · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Roxie and Azad Joseph Foundation · Minnie B Leonette Family Foundation · Robert S & Dorothy J Keyser 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 Earl and Elizabeth Ash Foundation of Nevada 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.