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Frank and Victoria Fertitta Foundation Ltd at a glance

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Frank and Victoria Fertitta Foundation Ltd

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$301k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$196k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$4.1MHealth$771kReligion$214kFood & Nutrition$132kEducation$106kYouth Development$65kPublic Safety & Disaster$41kArts & Culture$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $196k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$196,060
BABY'S BOUNTY$30,000
AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS$15,000
Tyler Robinson Foundation$10,000
ANGEL FLIGHT WEST$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Hoag Hospital Foundation$5,000
MIRACLE FLIGHTS FOR KIDS$5,000
REFUGE FOR WOMEN LAS VEGAS$5,000
Serving Our Kids Foundation$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $10k → 12%OPTIONS UNITED: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 13%BABY'S BOUNTY: $5k → 13%OPTIONS UNITED: $5k → 14%OPTIONS UNITED: $5k → 14%OPTIONS UNITED: $5k → 14%BABYS BOUNTY: $5k → 13%BABYS BOUNTY: $5k → 13%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $20k → 13%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $15k → 13%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $5k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $1k → 13%BABYS BOUNTY: $10k → 13%BABYS BOUNTY: $10k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $1.1M → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $1.1M → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $1.1M → 13%BOYS TOWN NEVADA: $5k → 13%Serving Our Kids Foundation: $5k → 13%CAPABILITY HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $5k → 13%BABY'S BOUNTY: $30k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $5k → 13%BABY'S BOUNTY: $20k → 13%EASTERSEALS NEVADA: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NV
IA
PA
CA
VA
AZ
DC
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 29 repeat orgs$361k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
32

Total granted

$5.2M
$331k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+25%

Still filing today

72%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
    3× · 2018–2021 · $3.3M · revenue +116%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $390k · revenue +33%
  • TS
    THREE SQUARE
    5× · 2017–2023 · $110k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • SC
    STILLPOINT CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • VF
    VICTORIA FERTITTA MIDDLE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $26k
  • UN
    USO NEVADA GENERAL FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.

Human Services
3
Children's Advocacy Alliance Inc

The children's advocacy alliance is an independent voice for nevada's children, advancing systemic change in the areas of early childhood education, children's health, and child welfare. we achieve public policy wins through collaboration…

Crime & Legal
4
Womens Resource Medical Centers

Women's resource medical centers of southern nevada (wrmcsn) is a community-based, faith-driven not for profit 501 (c) 3 organization that exists to support pregnant women with medical care and resources to ensure healthy and thriving…

Health
5
New Vista Ranch Inc

New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.

Human Services
6
Mount St Vincent Home Inc

As part of intermountain health, mount saint vincent partners with children and families to heal beyond trauma into a healthy and hopeful future.

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7
Las Vegas Rescue Mission

Through feeding the hungry, support, and care, we provide redemption, recovery, and re-entry to the homeless, addicted, and those in need.

Human Services
8
Children's Advocacy Center

Our mission is to help and heal children and their families who have been traumatized by abuse and neglect. because every child deserves a voice, we provide vital services when they need it the most.

Human Services
9
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
10
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
11
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for an Independent Tomorrow; the most unlike its peers is Nellis Support Team. 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

37 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. 37 of the 65 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
24/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $3,333,333 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA+11 more: $292,000 · Human Services+11 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $446,060 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESHOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH: $200,000 · OtherHOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC C…STILLPOINT CENTER: $50,000 · OtherMIRACLE FLIGHTS: $40,000 · Other+36 more: $388,000 · Other+36 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $390,000 · HealthAmerican He…VMSN INC: $88,218 · HealthVMSN INCANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $60,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGH…AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS: $20,000 · Health+3 more: $30,000 · HealthTHREE SQUARE: $110,000 · Food & NutritionUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationZO'S BRAVEHEARTS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationGREATER LAS VEGAS INNER CITY GAMES: $37,000 · Recreation & SportsGIRLS YOUTH BASKETBALL: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsNELLIS SUPPORT TEAM: $32,500 · Public Benefit
Human Services$3,625,333Other$1,124,060Health$588,218Food & Nutrition$110,000Education$45,000Recreation & Sports$42,000Public Benefit$32,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $3,333,333 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $390,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVMSN INC: $88,218 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetBABY'S BOUNTY: $85,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetNEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $75,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $60,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE FLIGHTS: $40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER LAS VEGAS INNER CITY GAMES: $37,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNELLIS SUPPORT TEAM: $32,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR POSITIVELY KIDS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPTIONS UNITED: $20,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetZO'S BRAVEHEARTS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetAMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPABILITY HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS YOUTH BASKETBALL: $5,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEVADA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AN INDEPENDENT TOMORROW: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $3,000 over 1y, 3.7% 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
  • Who funds VMSN INC ↗
  • Who funds BABY'S BOUNTY ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS ↗
  • Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LAS VEGAS INNER CITY GAMES ↗
  • Who funds NELLIS SUPPORT TEAM ↗
  • Who funds HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR POSITIVELY KIDS ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OPTIONS UNITED ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER LAS VEGAS ↗
  • Who funds ZO'S BRAVEHEARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMANDA HOPE RAINBOW ANGELS ↗
  • Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPABILITY HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC ↗

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.

Mgm Resorts FoundationWynn Resorts Foundati…Canarelli Family Foun…Nevada Community Foun…Vegas Golden Knights …United Way of Souther…NV Energy Charitable …Speedway Children's C…Cashman Family Founda…Engelstad Family Foun…Dermody Properties Fo…America's Charities
Mgm Resorts FoundationNV40.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mgm Resorts Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · United Way of Southern Nevada · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Cashman Family Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · America's Charities

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 Frank and Victoria Fertitta Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank and Victoria Fertitta Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    15report 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, 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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    How do I get to Frank and Victoria Fertitta Foundation Ltd?

    Find your warmest path to Frank and Victoria Fertitta Foundation Ltd 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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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