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Nevada Military Support Alliance

The NEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE will provide comfort and support, both personal and financial to the families and survivors of our fallen patriots, who have lost their lives in a combat zone.

$302k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Human Services$990kEducation$315kHousing & Shelter$250kHealth$124k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $250,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $302,300 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $52,300 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.
$250,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$434k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS$250,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $13k → 7%EMPOWER YOUTH: $25k → 9%QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $13k → 7%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.
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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$476k · 5 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$476k
$952k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+18%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TM
    TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $215k · revenue -43%
  • GB
    GREAT BASIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $116k
  • UO
    University of Nevada Reno Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • VG
    Veterans Guest House Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $910k · revenue +201% · 99% of their budget
  • EY
    EMPOWER YOUTH
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -24%
  • NV
    NEVADA VETERANS COALITION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -48%
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.

1
Nevada Veterans Memorial Plaza

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

Arts & Culture
2
Nevada Gold Mines Heritage Fund
Philanthropy
3
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
4
Nevada Veterans Foundation

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.

Public Benefit
5
University of Nevada Alumni Association

The Nevada Alumni Association is here to foster and cultivate a common bond of pride, affinity and connection among alumni, students, prospective students and friends of the University of Nevada, Reno through quality programs, services and…

—
6
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
7
Nevada Scottish Rite Foundation
Membership Benefit
8
Eastern Montana Veterans Home Foundation
Human Services
9
Nevada State College Foundation

The mission of the nevada state college foundation board of trustees is to serve as ambassadors for nevada state college, to serve as fiduciary stewards of funds received by the foundation, and to raise funds in support of the educational,…

Education
10
Veterans of Foreign Wars Dept of Nv

To foster camaraderie among united states veterans of overseas conflicts. to serve our veterans, the military, and our communities. to advocate on behalf of all veterans.

—
11
Nevada Benefits Foundation

Support Military troops that are deployed overseas and their families. Raise money to donate to Military charities, troops and their families.

Public Benefit
12
Unlv Research Foundation

The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truckee Meadows Community College Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Nevada Veterans Coalition. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Veterans Guest House Inc: $909,830 · OtherVeterans Guest House IncGREAT BASIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $116,000 · OtherGREAT BASIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE+2 more: $30,000 · OtherTRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $215,000 · EducationTRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMU…University of Nevada Reno Foundation: $100,000 · EducationUniversity of Nevada …+1 more: $7,500 · EducationHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR TR…EMPOWER YOUTH: $25,000 · Human ServicesQUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human Services
Other$1,055,830Education$322,500Housing & Shelter$250,000Human Services$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVeterans Guest House Inc: $909,830 over 1y, 99% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetEMPOWER YOUTH: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetQUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNEVADA VETERANS COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Nevada Military Support Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nevada Military Support Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 10 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $20k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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