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Engelstad Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+11 grants · $26M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MORGAN STANLEY DAF ACCOUNT | $21,042,556 |
| TOGETHER CALIFORNIA | $1,200,000 |
| SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA | $724,959 |
| THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| RALPH ENGELSTAD ARENA | $419,064 |
| ROSEMAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES | $400,000 |
| UNLV FOUNDATION | $396,000 |
| EYE CARE 4 KIDS | $375,000 |
| CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION OF NEVADA | $350,000 |
| HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC | $335,000 |
| BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC | $250,000 |
| LAS VEGAS COLLEGIATE INC | $200,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY 180 | $176,808 |
| UP TO STUDY LLC | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $15.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
136 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 122 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24M 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
- TSThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts3× · 2020–2022 · $10M · revenue +31% · 59% of their budget
- OVOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE2× · 2019–2020 · $10M · revenue +9%
- SRST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $10M · revenue +31% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- NHNEVADA HEALTH & BIOSCIENCE CORPone grant, 2022 · $15M
- TSTHREE SQUAREone grant, 2019 · $2.5M · revenue -11%
- COCOLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADAone grant, 2019 · $2.4M
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 foster strategic alliances in the health care community, collaborating on workforce issues and being a proactive force for legislative initiatives to improve access and the delivery of health care in southern 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…
The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…
The foundation's mission is to enhance the quality of life for children with cancer and their families by providing financial assistance and compassionate support programs while advocating for increased research funds and raising public…
The nevada council on problem gambling is a non-profit information and referral agency whose efforts are focused on reducing the impact of problem gambling on individuals, families and communities in nevada. it is the mission of the nevada…
As nevada's federally designated primary care association, nvpca promotes access to affordable, comprehensive & quality health care for nevada's underserved populations. we support & advocate on behalf of member community health centers,…
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
The mission of the nevada state college foundation board of trustees is to serve as ambassadors for nevada state college, to serve as fiduciary stewards of funds received by the foundation, and to raise funds in support of the educational,…
Our membership is united in pursuit of immediate and continuous improvements to the state's education system. we support an ambitious, agressive and comprehensive reform agenda to dramatically increase the college and workforce readiness…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southern Nevada and the most unlike its peers is The Rogers Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
164 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. 164 of the 266 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 The Smith Center for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds ST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds BLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds ROSEMAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREEN OUR PLANET ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY 180 ↗
- Who funds GOODIE TWO SHOES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds FARM RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds NEVADA CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 4E KENNELS HEALING HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 150 ↗
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: Mgm Resorts Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Canarelli Family Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · The Boyd Family Foundation · Mondays Dark · Speedway Children's Charities · Raiders Foundation Nv · Cashman Family 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 Engelstad Family Foundation 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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