How much does Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center give?

Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center reported 58 itemized grants totaling $2,186,392, out of $2,336,440 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 54 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Education (20%), Philanthropy (17%).

Who are Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Family Service Agency ($3.1M), Dr Miriam and Sheldon G Adelson Educational Institute ($2.6M), Academy Foundation ($1.0M).

Does Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NV Energy Charitable Foundation, Wynn Resorts Foundation, United Way of Southern Nevada.

Where is Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center based?

Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center is based in NV.

Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center

Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center

To administer and allocate charitable funds to international, national and local jewish organizations.

$2.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$303k

Largest

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$4.9MEducation$3.5MPhilanthropy$3.0MReligion$3.0MArts & Culture$1.6MInternational$525kHealth$484kHousing & Shelter$88kOther$0

02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 58 grants below total $2,186,392, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,336,440 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $150,048 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $97k
$10k–50k31 grants · $571k
$50k–250k11 grants · $925k
$250k+2 grants · $593k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$29M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$14M · 62 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+4%

Still filing today

61%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +551% · 29% of their budget
DM
DR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +31%
CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
5× · 2017–2024 · $494k · revenue +97%

Funded once

TR
The Ronald & Judy Mack Religious Education Foundation
one grant, 2023 · $169k · revenue -76% · 95% of their budget
TL
THE LUVSEATS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -99% · 99% of their budget
AS
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC
one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -84%

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.

University of Judaism Foundation

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Sherit Isroel

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Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

Idf Memorial Foundation

Philanthropy

Mesorah Heritage Foundation

The foundation's mission is to research, locate, translate, and create jewish religious, literary, biblical, and talmudic works for religious, scholarly and cultural purposes for the general public.

Arts & Culture

Jewish Life Foundation

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The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

National Center for Jewish Filminc

The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…

Arts & Culture

The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc

Religion

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Harold Grinspoon Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Robert Rock Belliveau and Rita Deanin Abbey Foundation. 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

91 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. 91 of the 131 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

87/91

Grantees still filing

60/91

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$11,057,017Philanthropy$2,587,693Arts & Culture$1,419,690Human Services$803,963Education$681,127International$524,526Health$352,500

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

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.

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.

NV Energy Charitable FoundationNV24.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home