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Mondays Dark

To support 22 local charities from various sectors every year by providing funding and awareness through fundraising variety shows.

$226k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$390kHuman Services$196kArts & Culture$180kHousing & Shelter$150kMembership Benefit$132kEducation$90kFood & Nutrition$86kYouth Development$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $215k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHARE IN THE JOY$15,000
AMERICAN FOUNDATION SUICIDE PREVENT$10,000
LAS VEGAS ELITE BOXING$10,000
CONQUOR PARALYSIS NOW$10,000
3630 FOUNDATION$10,000
FIRST FRIDAY FOUNDATION$10,000
LIFE BY MUSIC$10,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS$10,000
NEVADA ACRO FOUNDATION$10,000
HENDERSON EQUALITY CENTER$10,000
SUPER SUMMER THEATER$10,000
DOWN SYNDROME ORG OF SOUTHERN NEVAD$10,000
NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASS ED FDN$10,000
KINSELLA ANGELS FOUNDATION$10,000
RETRIEVER RESCUE OF LAS VEGAS$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–25, $280k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PROJECT DOT: $10k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $6k → 13%SHINE A LIGHT: $10k → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 13%HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $10k → 13%COLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%BURN FOUNDATION: $23k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS: $10k → 13%THERE IS NO HERO IN HEROIN FOUNDATI: $10k → 13%THE PRIDE TREE: $10k → 13%THE GARDEN FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%STRAIGHT FROM THE STREETS: $10k → 13%CARE COMPLEX: $10k → 13%PROJECT 4 HUMANITY: $10k → 13%LIVING GRACE HOMES: $10k → 13%FREE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 13%PROJECT MARILYN: $10k → 13%MICHAEL'S ANGELS PAWS INC: $10k → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONERS: $10k → 13%UNITED CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%HOOKERS FOR JESUS: $10k → 13%LITTLE MISS HANNAH FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%ANGELS OF LAS VEGAS: $10k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL: $10k → 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

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NY
OR
NV
CA
UT
DC
LA
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 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.

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Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
3
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
4
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
5
Our Nevada Judges Inc
Education
6
Nevada Healthright

Nevada HealthRight exists to serve the forensic healthcare needs of Nevada residents and visitors by providing excellence in clinical forensic healthcare services, violence prevention, education, and research.

Health
7
Angel Fire Department Las Vegas Nv

Community service

Youth Development
8
Prevent Child Trafficking Nevada Dba Alliance for Child Protection

Our mission is to prevent child trafficking by empowering young people to protect themselves and by educating and engaging the community to recognize the signs and to take safe and responsible action.

Education
9
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
10
Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation

To provide social, emotional, educational, and psychological support and programs to families of all children diagnosed with life threatening or critical illnesses and provide healing arts and wellness programs to adults touched by cancer…

Health
11
Night Off the Streets Inc

The mission of nots is to provide shelter for people without housing in the city-county of carson city nevada, and to guide those without housing to seek assistance to improve the quality of their lives.

Human Services
12
Project Prom of Northern Nevada

Our non-profit organization is dedicated to fostering inclusivity, joy, and empowerment within the developmentally disabled adult community through our annual prom event. Our mission is to provide a memorable and inclusive prom experience,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shine a Light Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Project Dot. 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

114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 114 of the 153 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/114
Grantees still filing
63/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THREE SQUARE: $30,000 · Other+85 more: $865,764 · Other+85 moreFIREFIGHTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA BURN FOUNDATION: $23,414 · Human ServicesFIREFIGHTERS OF S…HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $10,075 · Human ServicesNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesProject Marilyn Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOOKERS FOR JESUS: $10,000 · Human ServicesLittle Miss Hannah Foundation: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA MIRACLE MINDS THERAPY: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHERE IS NO HERO IN HEROIN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesPride Tree: $10,000 · Human ServicesProject 4 Humanity: $10,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT DOT: $10,000 · Human ServicesLIVING GRACE HOMESINC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Helpers: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSTRAIGHT FROM THE STREETS: $10,000 · Human ServicesAngels of Las Vegas: $10,000 · Human ServicesLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesF R E E INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMICHAEL'S ANGEL PAWS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $6,077 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR RECOVERY INC: $10,120 · HealthFOUNDATION…CRITICAL CARE COMICS: $10,090 · HealthCRITICAL C…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,075 · HealthBREAKTHROU…VMSN INC: $10,025 · HealthVMSN INCRESEARCH EDUCATION AND ACCESS TO CO: $10,000 · HealthRESEARCH E…SAM SCHMIDT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthSAM SCHMID…Grant A Gift Autism Foundation: $10,000 · HealthGrant A Gi…MAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthMAXIMUM HO…ALS UNITED NEVADA: $10,000 · HealthALS UNITED…CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S…ST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthST ROSE DO…FREEDOM HOUSE SOBER LIVING: $10,000 · HealthFREEDOM HO…COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER: $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY …AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN F…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthCROHN'S & …CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $10,000 · HealthCARE CHEST…Ashley Strong Foundation: $10,000 · HealthAshley Str…THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $142,000 · Membership BenefitTHE ACTOR…HAPPY HEALTHY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNEVADA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $13,281 · Arts & CulturePOOR RICHARDS PLAYERS INC: $10,090 · Arts & CultureTHE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTABLE 8 PRODUCTIONS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLIVE LIFE BY MUSIC INITIATIVE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA LAS VEGAS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEVADA PUBLIC RADIO: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBURLESQUE HALL OF FAME INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCulture Shock Las Vegas Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHOSPITALITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationFEAT of Southern Nevada: $10,000 · EducationCORE POWERED BY THE ROGERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationROSEMAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $10,000 · EducationLOVE YOURSELF FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationNevada Hands & Voices: $10,000 · EducationFIRST FRIDAY FOUNDATION LAS VEGAS: $10,000 · EducationOGDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationBRIGHT STAR FOUNDATION CORP: $50,000 · ReligionCHUGH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Religion
Other$895,764Human Services$279,566Health$170,310Membership Benefit$142,000Arts & Culture$128,371Education$100,000Religion$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $142,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHT STAR FOUNDATION CORP: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetHOSPITALITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA BURN FOUNDATION: $23,414 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetWIN WIN ENTERTAINMENT INC: $22,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetBLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEVADA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $13,281 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR RECOVERY INC: $10,120 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBARN BUDDIES RESCUE: $10,100 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetPOOR RICHARDS PLAYERS INC: $10,090 over 1y, 23% of budgetCRITICAL CARE COMICS: $10,090 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $10,075 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN RAINBOW OF NEVADA INC: $10,060 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $10,040 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA LEGAL SERVICES INC: $10,030 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDWARD KLINE MEM HOMELESS VETERANS FUND INC: $10,025 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetVMSN INC: $10,025 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH: $10,020 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESEARCH EDUCATION AND ACCESS TO CO: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFEAT of Southern Nevada: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBloom Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCORE POWERED BY THE ROGERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetProject Marilyn Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROSEMAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOOKERS FOR JESUS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNSHAKEABLE: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLittle Miss Hannah Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLOVE YOURSELF FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetPROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF NEVADA BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetGREEN OUR PLANET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA MIRACLE MINDS THERAPY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHERE IS NO HERO IN HEROIN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLIVE LIFE BY MUSIC INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetPride Tree: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNevada Hands & Voices: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE GOOD DEED PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST FRIDAY FOUNDATION LAS VEGAS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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 …United Way of Souther…Nevada Community Foun…Canarelli Family Foun…Mgm Resorts FoundationWynn Resorts Foundati…Vegas Golden Knights …Engelstad Family Foun…Lincoln Dynamic Found…Three SquareThe Boyd Family Found…The Gordon Foundation
NV Energy Charitable FoundationNV72.5× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Canarelli Family Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Engelstad Family Foundation · Lincoln Dynamic Foundation · Three Square · The Boyd Family Foundation · The Gordon Foundation

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 Mondays Dark funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mondays Dark. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 Mondays Dark?

    Find your warmest path to Mondays Dark 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 153 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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