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Education Fund of Northern Nevada

The EDUCATION FUND OF NORTHERN NEVADA is organized exclusivley for the benefit of the education of pupils who attend schools in the state of nevada.

$693k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$216k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$4.0M
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $553k
$21,347
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BISHOP MANOGUE HIGH SCHOOL$215,596
SIERRA LUTHERAN$113,155
CRISTO REY ST VIATOR$104,905
MESIVTA OF LAS VEGAS$65,155
FAITH LUTHERAN MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL$53,796
LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$26,200
BISHOP GORMAN HIGH SCHOOL$21,347
MOUNTAIN VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$18,811
AWAKEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$14,871
ADELSON EDUCATIONAL CAMPUS$10,750
WORD OF LIFE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$10,000
ATERES BONS ITA$9,841
AMERICAN HERITAGE ACADEMY$9,750
NEW HORIZONS ACADEMY$5,750
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SIERRA LUTHERAN: $153k → 8%BISHOP MANOGUE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $264k → 10%CALVARY CHAPEL CHRISTIAN: $39k → 13%SIERRA LUTHERAN: $119k → 8%BISHOP MANOGUE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $263k → 10%CALVARY CHAPEL CHRISTIAN: $23k → 13%SIERRA LUTHERAN: $113k → 8%BISHOP MANOGUE HIGH SCHOOL: $239k → 10%MOUNTAIN VIEW CHRISTIAN: $50k → 13%SIERRA LUTHERAN: $71k → 8%BISHOP MANOGUE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $229k → 10%MOUNTAIN VIEW CHRISTIAN: $40k → 13%SIERRA LUTHERAN: $56k → 8%BISHOP MANOGUE HIGH SCHOOL: $216k → 10%MOUNTAIN VIEW CHRISTIAN: $33k → 13%MOUNTAIN VIEW CHRISTIAN: $30k → 13%CRISTO REY ST VIATOR: $174k → 13%WORD OF LIFE CHRISTIAN: $29k → 13%CRISTO REY ST VIATOR: $142k → 13%WORD OF LIFE CHRISTIAN: $15k → 13%CRISTO REY ST VIATOR: $105k → 13%CRISTO REY ST VIATOR: $34k → 13%CRISTO REY ST VIATOR: $23k → 13%ATERES BONS ITA: $37k → 13%ATERES BONS ITA: $24k → 13%ADELSON EDUCATIONAL CAMPUS: $17k → 13%ATERES BONS ITA: $17k → 13%MESIVTA OF LAS VEGAS: $74k → 13%BISHOP GORMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $172k → 13%MESIVTA OF LAS VEGAS: $66k → 13%BISHOP GORMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $85k → 13%MOUNTAIN VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $19k → 13%MESIVTA OF LAS VEGAS: $65k → 13%BISHOP GORMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $42k → 13%MESIVTA OF LAS VEGAS: $23k → 13%BISHOP GORMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $31k → 13%BISHOP GORMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $21k → 13%AMERICAN HERITAGE ACADEMY: $14k → 13%FAITH LUTHERAN MIDDLE & HIGH: $115k → 13%FAITH LUTHERAN MIDDLE & HIGH: $66k → 13%LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN: $67k → 13%LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $58k → 13%LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN: $39k → 13%LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN: $32k → 13%LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $26k → 13%FAITH LUTHERAN ACADEMY: $82k → 13%FAITH LUTHERAN ACADEMY: $77k → 13%FAITH LUTHERAN MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL: $54k → 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.
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.
$3.9M · 16 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +114% since the first grant, against -14% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
3

Total granted

$3.9M
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+114%
-14%

Still filing today

31%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

  • LM
    LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
    5× · 2021–2025 · $222k · revenue +160%
  • AB
    ATERES BNOS ITA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +114%
  • LI
    LIBER INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $54k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • GV
    GREEN VALLEY CHRISTIAN CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $9k
  • SR
    SAGE RIDGE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -14%
  • LV
    Las Vegas Junior Academy
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BISHOP MANOGUE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $1,210,352 · OtherBISHOP MANOGUE CATHOLIC SCHOOLSIERRA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $511,873 · OtherSIERRA LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATIONCRISTO REY ST VIATOR: $372,255 · OtherCRISTO REY ST VIATORTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF LAS VEGAS: $352,345 · OtherTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF LAS VEGASTHE CHAMPION CENTER OF LAS VEGAS: $245,532 · OtherTHE CHAMPION CENTER OF LAS VEGASFAITH LUTHERAN MIDDLE SCHOOL & HIGH SCHOOL: $234,693 · OtherFAITH LUTHERAN MIDDLE SCHOOL & HIGH SCHOOLLAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $221,614 · OtherLAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIESMESIVTA OF LAS VEGAS: $168,048 · OtherFAITH COMMUNITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $158,970 · OtherAWAKEN CHURCH LAS VEGAS: $146,347 · Other+6 more: $241,886 · Other+6 moreATERES BNOS ITA: $95,443 · EducationLIBER INC: $53,922 · EducationNEW HORIZONS CENTER FOR LEARNING INC: $17,250 · EducationSAGE RIDGE SCHOOL: $8,000 · Education
Other$3,863,915Education$174,615

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 budgetLAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $221,614 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetATERES BNOS ITA: $95,443 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetLIBER INC: $53,922 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $36,098 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HORIZONS CENTER FOR LEARNING INC: $17,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAGE RIDGE SCHOOL: $8,000 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 LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ATERES BNOS ITA ↗
  • Who funds LIBER INC ↗
  • Who funds DR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZONS CENTER FOR LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds SAGE RIDGE SCHOOL ↗

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.

Dinosaurs and RosesSilver State Scholars…Mgm Resorts FoundationNevada Community Foun…Tulsa Community Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Dinosaurs and RosesNV43.3× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dinosaurs and Roses · Silver State Scholarships · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Education Fund of Northern Nevada funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Education Fund of Northern 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
    2report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Education Fund of Northern Nevada through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 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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