· Private foundation
Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k12 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
- $250k+1 grant · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Lou Ruvo Brain Institute | $360,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $90,000 |
| St Rose Dominican Health Foundation | $65,000 |
| Wichita Art Museum | $60,000 |
| THE SHADE TREE INCORPORATED | $45,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN NEVAD | $45,000 |
| DAV Charitable Service Trust | $45,000 |
| Keck Medicine of USC | $30,000 |
| Music Theater Wichita | $25,000 |
| Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial | $25,000 |
| Olympia Companies Southern Highlands Cha | $20,000 |
| VEGAS PBS | $20,000 |
| Core Academy | $20,000 |
| NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $762k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA7× · 2019–2025 · $430k · revenue +123%
- WAWichita Art Museum Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $430k · revenue +69%
- SRST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $218k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- DTDOUBLE TAP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $200k · 95% of their budget
- NONEWBY-GINNINGS OF NORTH IDAHO INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $52k · revenue +182%
- RGREBEL GOLF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -10%
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 honor and preserve the legacy of our fallen brothers and sisters who have given their life in service to our country since nevada became a state in 1864
Sierra nevada memorial hospital ("snmh") is committed to improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
Nevada veterans foundation's mission is to help improve quality of life for members of the military, military retirees, veterans and their families in the state of nevada.
Veterans Guest House promotes peace and wellness for the veteran community.
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.
Kline veterans fund provides emergency housing assistance and supportive services to homeless and at-risk veterans and their families in southern nevada, focused on the highest need categories. our program is dedicated to serving with…
To nurture the spirit of generosity and volunteerism of the community, we focus our philanthropic efforts in fostering quality healthcare of the highest standards for Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital.
The salvation army north las vegas residences inc is a non-profit apartment complex that provides subsidized housing to low income elderly or handicapped persons.
Helping people live the healthiest lives possible.
The mission of the NCPGA Foundation is three-fold: To serve Veterans - Their health and their families; to provide resources to PGA members serving their communities in Northern California and Northwestern Nevada; and to grow the game of…
To support and promote the game of golf in southern nevada, our mission is to grow participation, provide excellent service, and demonstrate passion in the game of golf while upholding the integrity and traditions of the game.
Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Specialized Needs Recreation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 53 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Wichita Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds ST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE TAP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SHADE TREE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds NEWBY-GINNINGS OF NORTH IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds REBEL GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds USC CARE MEDICAL GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIA COMPANIES SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORE POWERED BY THE ROGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INLAND NORTHWEST HONOR FLIGHT ↗
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: Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · The Tito and Sandra Tiberti Foundation · Alan and Christy Molasky Charitable Foundation · The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Vincent C and Pamela A Immordino Charitable Foundation · Mondays Dark · Engelstad 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 Lynne Ruffin-Smith Charitable 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.
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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