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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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
NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO$10,000
FIRST FRIDAY FOUNDATION$10,000
LIFE BY MUSIC$10,000
NEVADA ACRO FOUNDATION$10,000
SUPER SUMMER THEATER$10,000
NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASS ED FDN$10,000
CARE CHEST$10,000
EMPOWERED$10,000
PFFN BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION$10,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your 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 your 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%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 13%SHINE A LIGHT: $10k → 13%HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $10k → 13%COLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%BURN FOUNDATION: $23k → 13%THERE IS NO HERO IN HEROIN FOUNDATI: $10k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS: $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%FREE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 13%LIVING GRACE HOMES: $10k → 13%PROJECT MARILYN: $10k → 13%MICHAEL'S ANGELS PAWS INC: $10k → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONERS: $10k → 13%HOOKERS FOR JESUS: $10k → 13%UNITED CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%LITTLE MISS HANNAH FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL: $10k → 13%ANGELS OF LAS VEGAS: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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DC
LA
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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.

03Your field

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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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shine a Light Foundation and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCharter Schools and Educati…Residential & Commercial Pr…Community Empowerment Organ…Transitional Housing Progra…Children's Health & Wellnes…Youth Sports ProgramsLabor Unions and Apprentice…Family FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Museums and Cultural Instit…Nevada Community NonprofitsYouth Development and Commu…Professional Networking Org…Youth Mentoring & Skills De…Affordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and Shelter S…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 16 years old; the field is 7. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number41%9%<5yr18%18%5–10yr17%33%10–20yr12%24%20–35yr5%11%35–55yr6%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value41%7%<5yr18%15%5–10yr17%33%10–20yr12%23%20–35yr5%9%35–55yr6%13%55yr+

The field is 41% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 24% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
6/140
the rest of the field
24%
1,970/8,173

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.

04the grantee network

114 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. 114 of the 153 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/114
Grantees still filing
65/114
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 ServicesUNITED CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA MIRACLE MINDS THERAPY — $10,000 · Human ServicesProject 4 Humanity — $10,000 · Human ServicesNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesF R E E INTERNATIONAL INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHOOKERS FOR JESUS — $10,000 · Human ServicesLittle Miss Hannah Foundation — $10,000 · Human ServicesAngels of Las Vegas — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHERE IS NO HERO IN HEROIN FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT DOT — $10,000 · Human ServicesMICHAEL'S ANGEL PAWS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCOLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesLIVING GRACE HOMESINC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSTRAIGHT FROM THE STREETS — $10,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY — $10,000 · Human ServicesPride Tree — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNFORGETTABLES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION — $10,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Helpers — $10,000 · Human ServicesProject Marilyn Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE GARDEN FOUNDATION 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 INCSAM SCHMIDT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthSAM SCHMID…COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER — $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY …CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN F…ALS UNITED NEVADA — $10,000 · HealthALS UNITED…FREEDOM HOUSE SOBER LIVING — $10,000 · HealthFREEDOM HO…Grant A Gift Autism Foundation — $10,000 · HealthGrant A Gi…ST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthST ROSE DO…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthCROHN'S & …MAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthMAXIMUM HO…Ashley Strong Foundation — $10,000 · HealthAshley Str…CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA — $10,000 · HealthCARE CHEST…RESEARCH EDUCATION AND ACCESS TO CO — $10,000 · HealthRESEARCH E…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 & CultureCulture Shock Las Vegas Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTABLE 8 PRODUCTIONS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLIVE LIFE BY MUSIC INITIATIVE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA LAS VEGAS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM — $10,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBURLESQUE HALL OF FAME INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNEVADA PUBLIC RADIO — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHOSPITALITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationFEAT of Southern Nevada — $10,000 · EducationNevada Hands & Voices — $10,000 · EducationLOVE YOURSELF FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationROSEMAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $10,000 · EducationOGDEN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationFIRST FRIDAY FOUNDATION LAS VEGAS — $10,000 · EducationCORE POWERED BY THE ROGERS 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetTHREE SQUARE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPITALITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 5.0% 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 budgetVMSN INC — $10,025 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDWARD KLINE MEM HOMELESS VETERANS FUND INC — $10,025 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH — $10,020 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNSHAKEABLE — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCulture Shock Las Vegas Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetUNITED CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA MIRACLE MINDS THERAPY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFEAT of Southern Nevada — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNevada Hands & Voices — $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGENDER JUSTICE NEVADA — $10,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetNAMI SOUTHERN NEVADA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBloom Academy — $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetLOVE YOURSELF FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetState Parks Cultural Arts Board Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOOKERS FOR JESUS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYouth Leadership Authority Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Miss Hannah Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE GOOD DEED PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 20% 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 budgetOPERA LAS VEGAS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLas Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetROSEMAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT DOT — $10,000 over 1y, 45% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 Mondays Dark 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.

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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your 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

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 153 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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