· Public charity
Lees Helping Hand Foundation
To promote and support the local non-profit organizations and the communities youth by providing supervised athletic, academic, artistic, and other after school recreational activities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUTISM BUILDING BLOCKS | $500,000 |
| LEE'S FAMILY ACADEMY | $78,000 |
| SOL CHOI | $20,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE | $16,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +120% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
- OVOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE6× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +13%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN3× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +120%- STSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA2× · 2018–2020 · $16k · revenue +135%
Funded once
- NVNEW VISTA RANCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +51%
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -83%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +39%
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 provide high quality academics to k-5 students
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…
Communities in schools of nevada, inc. (the organization) was originally established in 1992 as cities of schools of las vegas, but remained relatively dormant until 2003 when it reestablished its mission to coincide with the national…
Cplc nevada, inc. is a community development corporation (cdc), committed to building stronger, healthier communities by leading advocate, coalition builder, and direct service provider. (continued on schedule o)cplc nevada, inc. promotes…
Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…
Advance science & civil engineering profession
To promote the establishment and operation of quality charter schools through responsible oversight in the public interest. nacsa serves the education and resource needs of the full range of chartering authorities across the country, whose…
Uwncnm's mission is to connect people to opportunities and services to equitably improve lives and strengthen communities. that is done through direct service programs, community investment (grant making), community outreach (convening and…
To solicit applications for americorps funding and to support the volunteer infrastructure in nevada.
To improve the status, well-being and racial/ethnic equity of new mexicos children, families, and communities in the areas of health, education, and economic security by promoting public policies through credible research and effective…
To take action through leadership, training, support, and advocacy to ensure the highest quality of education for all students within the state of nevada.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Asian Chamber of Commerce Foundtion. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NEW VISTA RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDTION ↗
- Who funds SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Charter School Association of Nevada ↗
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: Vincent C and Pamela A Immordino Charitable Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts 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 Lees Helping Hand 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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.
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