· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center
To administer and allocate charitable funds to international, national and local jewish organizations.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of JEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 58 grants below total $2,186,392 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,336,440 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $150,048 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $571k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $925k
- $250k+2 grants · $593k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $303,005 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY | $290,250 |
| ADELSON EDUCATIONAL CAMPUS | $184,964 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES SN | $135,560 |
| ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM | $68,361 |
| KEEP MEMORY ALIVE | $66,000 |
| TEMPLE SINAI | $62,387 |
| JEWISH SUCCESS INITIATIVE INC | $60,585 |
| CHABAD OF SOUTHERN NV | $59,875 |
| YESHIVA DAY SCHOOL | $57,273 |
| CONGREGATION NER TAMID | $54,710 |
| HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION | $50,234 |
| DESERT TORAH ACADEMY | $45,070 |
| MIDBAR KODESH | $37,536 |
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 (FY17–24, $783k) 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 +57% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 16 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +551% · 29% of their budget
- DMDR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +31%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA5× · 2017–2024 · $494k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- TRThe Ronald & Judy Mack Religious Education Foundationone grant, 2023 · $169k · revenue -76% · 95% of their budget
- TLTHE LUVSEATS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -99% · 99% of their budget
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INCone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -84%
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.
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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 33 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 131 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
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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds DR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA DAY SCHOOL OF LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF LV ↗
- Who funds The Ronald & Judy Mack Religious Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE LUVSEATS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACT CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KOLLEL OF GREATER LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE ↗
- Who funds VAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AISHAL AVRAHAM OF LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
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: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Alan and Christy Molasky Charitable Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Charles V Roven Family Foundation · Steinberg Family Foundation · Windsong Trust · Jewish Communal Fund
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 Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center 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.
- Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
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.