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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.

$27M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$21M
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Health$56MEducation$40MPhilanthropy$33MHuman Services$17MAnimals$17MArts & Culture$15MRecreation & Sports$13MPublic Safety & Disaster$12MOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

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
$176,808
Median grant
4
States reached
$666M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

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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.

area typical 10%PAWSITIVE PERSPECTIVES ASSISTANCE DOGS: $75k → 6%SOJOURNER PROJECT: $15k → 11%TOGETHER CALIFORNIA: $1.2M → 14%KIDDIE KORNER PRESCHOOL & DAYCARE DBA SUNSHINE KIDS CENTER: $4k → 11%REBUILDING TOGETHER FARGO-MOORHEAD AREA: $86k → 12%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $20k → 10%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $20k → 10%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $20k → 10%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $500k → 13%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $20k → 10%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $500k → 13%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $500k → 13%ALBION SC LAS VEGAS: $620k → 13%COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER: $500k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $500k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $500k → 13%ST JOSEPH'S SOCIAL CARE AND THRIFT STORE: $125k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $405k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $300k → 13%ALBION SC LAS VEGAS: $200k → 13%MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YMCA: $1k → 19%MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST YMCA: $1k → 19%COLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $500k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $35k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $15k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $15k → 13%COLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION: $125k → 13%YMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $500k → 13%YMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $250k → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $1.0M → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $175k → 13%ST JUDE RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $2.0M → 13%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 13%CAPABILITY HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $150k → 13%PROJECT 150: $1.0M → 13%PROJECT 150: $400k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $1.5M → 13%THE GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $600k → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $335k → 13%BOYS TOWN NEVADA: $125k → 13%PROJECT 4 HUMANITY: $100k → 13%THE GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$186M · 136 repeat orgs$62M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

136
114

Total granted

$186M
$38M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+20%

Still filing today

64%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

  • TS
    The Smith Center for the Performing Arts
    3× · 2020–2022 · $10M · revenue +31% · 59% of their budget
  • OV
    OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE
    2× · 2019–2020 · $10M · revenue +9%
  • SR
    ST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $10M · revenue +31% · 36% of their budget

Funded once

  • NH
    NEVADA HEALTH & BIOSCIENCE CORP
    one grant, 2022 · $15M
  • TS
    THREE SQUARE
    one grant, 2019 · $2.5M · revenue -11%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Southern Nevada Medical Industry Coalition

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.

Community Improvement
3
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
4
Unlv Research Foundation

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…

Science & Tech
5
Northern Nevada Children's Cancer Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
6
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
7
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
8
Nevada Council On Problem Gambling

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…

9
Nevada Primary Care Association

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,…

Health
10
Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals
11
Nevada State College Foundation

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,…

Education
12
Nevada Succeeds

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Lgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…Military Veterans SupportJewish Community Organizati…Cancer Support ServicesAddiction Recovery ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Food Banks and PantriesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Food PantriesCommunity College Foundatio…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…United Way AffiliatesCommunity Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Domestic Violence ServicesLocal History MuseumsYmca Youth DevelopmentYouth Development ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterDevelopmental Disabilities …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number35%2%<5yr17%11%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr14%21%20–35yr7%21%35–55yr8%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value35%1%<5yr17%3%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr14%41%20–35yr7%10%35–55yr8%16%55yr+

The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/172
the rest of the field
21%
2,502/12,203

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
161/164
Grantees still filing
110/164
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MORGAN STANLEY DAF ACCOUNT — $21,042,556 · OtherMORGAN STANLEY DAF ACCOUNTNEVADA HEALTH & BIOSCIENCE CORP — $15,006,947 · OtherNEVADA HEALTH & BIOSCIENCE CORPLAS VEGAS METROPOLITAN POLICE FOUNDATION — $9,000,000 · OtherLAS VEGAS METROPOLITAN POLICE FOUNDATIONCRISTO REY ST VIATOR COLLEGE PREPARATORY — $7,600,000 · OtherCRISTO REY ST VIATOR COLLEGE PREPARATORYBLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC — $6,875,000 · OtherLEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $7,819,971 · OtherLEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $6,055,000 · Other+122 more — $65,619,918 · Other+122 moreRE ARENA INC — $9,112,635 · EducationRE ARENA INCUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $9,090,113 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEV…ROSEMAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $5,900,000 · EducationROSEMAN UNIVERSIT…OPPORTUNITY 180 — $4,223,516 · EducationOPPORTUNITY 180TOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA — $3,300,000 · EducationTOURO UNIVERSITY …THE ROGERS FOUNDATION — $1,850,100 · EducationTexas A&M Foundation — $1,500,000 · Education+8 more — $2,882,175 · Education+8 moreST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 · HealthST ROSE D…NEVADA CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,450,000 · HealthNEVADA CH…VMSN INC — $1,300,000 · HealthVMSN INCFUTURE SMILES — $1,300,000 · HealthFUTURE SM…THE SIMON KEITH FOUNDATION — $1,250,000 · HealthTHE SIMON…NEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC — $1,150,000 · HealthNEVADA HE…CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER — $945,000 · HealthTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION — $700,000 · Health+10 more — $2,506,742 · Health+10 moreJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation — $9,500,000 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $5,001,000 · Animals4E KENNELS HEALING HEARTS INC — $1,415,000 · Animals+5 more — $539,390 · AnimalsST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC — $2,075,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER — $2,000,000 · Human ServicesNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc — $1,705,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC — $1,510,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $1,500,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT 150 — $1,400,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER CALIFORNIA INC — $1,200,000 · Human ServicesAlbion SC Las Vegas — $820,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $750,000 · Human ServicesGAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $605,000 · Human ServicesCOLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION — $520,000 · Human Services+11 more — $1,066,000 · Human ServicesThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts — $10,001,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MINOT INC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureNATIVE AMERICAN GUARDIANS ASSOCIATION — $450,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $575,000 · Arts & CultureOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE — $10,000,000 · Employment
Other$139,019,392Education$37,858,539Health$20,601,742Animals$16,455,390Human Services$15,151,000Arts & Culture$11,526,000Employment$10,000,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts — $10,001,000 over 3y, 59% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE — $10,000,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation — $9,500,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $9,090,113 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetLEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $7,819,971 over 2y, 31% of budgetBLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC — $6,875,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $6,055,000 over 4y, 74% of budgetROSEMAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $5,900,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $5,001,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetGREEN OUR PLANET — $4,500,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetOPPORTUNITY 180 — $4,223,516 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetGOODIE TWO SHOES FOUNDATION INC — $4,200,000 over 3y, 94% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA — $3,300,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $3,000,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHREE SQUARE — $2,505,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS — $2,500,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER — $2,000,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHE ROGERS FOUNDATION — $1,850,100 over 2y, 86% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc — $1,705,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC — $1,510,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $1,500,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetNEVADA CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,450,000 over 4y, 27% of budget4E KENNELS HEALING HEARTS INC — $1,415,000 over 5y, 92% of budgetPROJECT 150 — $1,400,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetVMSN INC — $1,300,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetFUTURE SMILES — $1,300,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetTHE SIMON KEITH FOUNDATION — $1,250,000 over 5y, 98% of budgetTOGETHER CALIFORNIA INC — $1,200,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,159,357 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC — $1,150,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBACOT FOUNDATION OF SOUTH MISSISSIPPI — $1,075,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $1,051,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation — $1,000,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetGreater Horizons — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER — $945,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND LAS VEGAS — $942,900 over 2y, 26% of budgetAlbion SC Las Vegas — $820,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetNEVADA CHILD SEEKERS — $820,000 over 5y, 64% of budgetSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA — $786,759 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $750,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetTHE JUST ONE PROJECT — $750,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION — $700,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetTHE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION — $625,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetGAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $605,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS — $600,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES — $556,742 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

Mgm Resorts FoundationNV81.4× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Engelstad Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Engelstad Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 266 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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