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Earl and Elizabeth Ash Foundation of Nevada at a glance

· Private foundation

Earl and Elizabeth Ash Foundation of Nevada

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$400kHealth$396kHuman Services$185kScience & Tech$151kRecreation & Sports$113kArts & Culture$99kFood & Nutrition$50kAnimals$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADOPT A VET DENTAL PROGRAM$25,000
VETERANS GUESTHOUSE$20,000
RENO RODEO FOUNDATION$15,000
CORAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE$15,000
NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT$12,500
NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDRENS CANCER FOUNDATION$12,500
PBS RENO - KNPB$10,000
NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION$10,000
THE EDDY HOUSE$7,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$5,000
KIDS AND HORSES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$5,000
SIERRA KIDS FOUNDATION$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN NEVADA$5,000
RENO PHILHARMONIC$3,000
ARTS FOR THE SCHOOLS$2,500
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE EDDY HOUSE: $40k → 10%THE EDDY HOUSE: $10k → 10%THE EDDY HOUSE: $10k → 10%THE EDDY HOUSE: $10k → 10%THE EDDY HOUSE: $10k → 10%THE EDDY HOUSE: $8k → 10%THE EDDY HOUSE: $8k → 10%THE EDDY HOUSE: $8k → 10%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $15k → 10%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $15k → 10%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $13k → 10%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $13k → 10%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $13k → 10%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $10k → 10%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 19 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$1.4M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+160%

Still filing today

68%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AA
    ADOPT A VET DENTAL PROGRAM INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $195k · revenue +187%
  • VG
    Veterans Guest House Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $180k · revenue +201%
  • NN
    NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • CC
    CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +160%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +190%
  • CR
    Canine Rehabilitation Center and Cat Sanctuarygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +165%
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
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
3
Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation

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…

Health
4
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
5
Nevada Kids Foundation Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
7
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
8
Nevada Hands & Voices

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.

Education
9
Kids Chance of Nevada

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.

Education
10
Nevada Children's Foundation Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Nevada Gold Mines Heritage Fund
Philanthropy
12
Nevada Blind Children's Foundation

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Northern Nevada; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Veterans Guest House Inc: $180,000 · OtherVeterans Guest House IncCORAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: $150,950 · OtherCORAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCEReno Rodeo Foundation: $112,500 · OtherReno Rodeo FoundationBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $100,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBNORTHERN NEVADA RAVE FAMILY: $95,000 · OtherNORTHERN NEVADA RAVE FAMILYPBS RENO - KNPB: $70,000 · OtherPBS RENO - KNPB+8 more: $59,200 · Other+8 moreADOPT A VET DENTAL PROGRAM INC: $195,000 · HealthADOPT A VET DENTAL P…KIDS AND HORSES INC: $25,000 · HealthKIDS AND HORSES INCSADDLE UP: $20,000 · HealthSADDLE UPCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $8,500 · HealthEDDY HOUSE: $102,500 · Human ServicesEDDY HOUSENEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $77,500 · Human ServicesNEVADA YOUTH EM…NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $107,500 · PhilanthropyFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $50,000 · Food & NutritionBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSierra Kids Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$767,650Health$258,500Human Services$190,000Philanthropy$107,500Food & Nutrition$50,000Youth Development$25,000Recreation & Sports$25,000

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 budgetADOPT A VET DENTAL PROGRAM INC: $195,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetVeterans Guest House Inc: $180,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetReno Rodeo Foundation: $112,500 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $107,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetEDDY HOUSE: $102,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetNEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $77,500 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS AND HORSES INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSierra Kids Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetSADDLE UP: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetArts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall: $17,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCanine Rehabilitation Center and Cat Sanctuary: $4,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOLACETREE INC: $3,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS AND HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds Sierra Kids Foundation 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 ↗

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 E L Cord Foundati…Robert Z Hawkins Foun…Dermody Properties Fo…Tahoe Community Found…The Marshall R Matley…The Nell J Redfield F…Renown HealthNV Energy Charitable …Community Foundation …Roxie and Azad Joseph…Minnie B Leonette Fam…Robert S & Dorothy J …
The E L Cord FoundationNV26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Earl and Elizabeth Ash Foundation of Nevada funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Earl and Elizabeth Ash Foundation of Nevada. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 27 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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