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Opportunity 180

We believe that all children deserve great schools.

$4.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$626k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$40MAnimals$1.6MPhilanthropy$952kYouth Development$797kHuman Services$410kEmployment$211kPublic Benefit$131kHealth$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $117k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.1M
$89,780
Median grant
4
States reached
$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VEGAS VISTA ACADEMY$626,230
WESTERN YOUTH LEADERSHIP ENGAGEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT SCHOOL$603,796
EQUITABLE FACILITIES$500,000
DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE$403,848
SOUTHERN NEVADA TRADES HIGH SCHOOL$365,063
YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY OF LAS VEGAS$303,662
ELKO INSTITUTE FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT$284,493
SAGE COLLEGIATE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL$247,300
EAGLE CHARTER SCHOOLS OF NEVADA$243,918
PIONEER TECHNOLOGY & ARTS ACADEMY OF NEVADA$179,107
EQUIPO ACADEMY$138,600
BATTLE BORN ACADEMY$135,147
JOBS FOR NEVADA'S GRADUATES INC$115,176
ROOTED SCHOOL LAS VEGAS$99,170
PILOTED SCHOOLS OF NEVADA$89,780
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 (FY19–19, $500k) 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%BUILDING HOPE NEVADA: $500k → 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

IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
NJ
CA
NM
DC
HI
LA
TX

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$38M · 34 repeat orgs$6.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
20

Total granted

$38M
$5.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+0%

Still filing today

91%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TL
    TEACH LAS VEGAS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue ×50 · 28% of their budget
  • BB
    BATTLE BORN ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +769% · 87% of their budget
  • SN
    Southern Nevada Trades High School CO Brett Willis
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +318% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • L
    LEMNIS
    one grant, 2020 · $1.7M · revenue -73%
  • SP
    SQUARE PANDA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.6M
  • BH
    Building Hope Neveda
    one grant, 2019 · $500k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Vega Collegiate Academy

Vega Collegiate Academy is designed with an extended school day and a slightly longer school year focusing on developing strong skills in literacy and math. It executes an academically rigorous curriculum aligned with common core standards…

Education
2
The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
3
Carbon Valley Academy

To provide rich content and solid skills instruction in an environment that champions character and personal academic achievement. carbon valley provides a public eduction to students preschool through grade 8.

Education
4
Doral Academy of Nevada

Doral academy of nevada is dedicated to providing an enhanced educational experience. we will develop outstanding student achievement with a focus on each child being well-rounded in all parts of their education. students will be prepared…

Education
5
Elite Public Schools

To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…

Education
6
Nevada Charter Academies

Amplus academy operates as a free public charter school that welcomes and honors all. our intent is that our students acquire knowledge and skills to become esteemed, distinguished, and productive citizens who preserve the pillars of a…

Education
7
The Language Academy of Sacramento

The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…

Education
8
The Delta Academy

The delta academy is a charter school serving nevada students in grades 6-12. our mission is to provide a safe and nurturing instructional environment in which students from various backgrounds expand their knowledge base to fulfill…

Education
9
Mater Academy of Nevada

The misson of mater academy of nevada is to provide an innovative, challenging, multi-cultural education, preparing students to be global citizens and have a competitive edge in the 21st century workforce. mater academy of nevada aspires…

Education
10
Nevada Virtual Charter School

At nevada virtual charter school, we will make a difference by meeting the unique needs of our diverse students, preparing them for college and carerr in the 21st century through high quality instruction in our virtual platform.

Education
11
Prescott Valley Charter School

To provide a safe, positive environment for all students with a strong focus on academic success, student leadership, parental involvement, and community partnership.

Education
12
Vista Charter Public Schools Inc

At vista, students master core subjects through the power of applying knowledge in a real-world context. in addition to rigorous academics, our schools focus on increased proficiency in crucial areas such as critical thinking, problem…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Piloted Schools of Nevada Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gooden Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 8 years old; the field is 9. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number35%25%<5yr17%36%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr7%2%35–55yr8%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value35%20%<5yr17%65%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr7%4%35–55yr8%0%55yr+

The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 25% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/65
the rest of the field
20%
2,501/12,310

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

57 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. 57 of the 65 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/57
Grantees still filing
34/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC — $14,260,932 · EducationEQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INCTEACH LAS VEGAS — $1,754,656 · EducationLEMNIS — $1,710,000 · EducationBATTLE BORN ACADEMY INC — $1,675,860 · EducationSouthern Nevada Trades High School CO Brett Willis — $1,600,000 · EducationBEACON ACADEMY OF NEVADA — $1,500,000 · EducationCivica Nevada — $1,495,744 · Education+40 more — $13,087,259 · Education+40 moreSQUARE PANDA INC — $1,650,000 · OtherSQUARE PANDA I…SAGE COLLEGIATE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,551,599 · OtherSAGE COLLEGIAT…EAGLE CHARTER SCHOOL — $825,464 · OtherEAGLE CHARTER …POWER2PARENT INC — $820,000 · OtherPOWER2PARENT I…GIRLS EMPOWERMENT MIDDLE SCHOOL LV — $238,323 · Other+7 more — $413,187 · Other+7 moreGOODEN FOUNDATION INC — $805,164 · HealthBuilding Hope Neveda — $500,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $185,000 · PhilanthropyNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $61,514 · PhilanthropyDEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $142,000 · Arts & CultureNEVADA GRANTLAB — $52,750 · Community Improvement
Education$37,084,451Other$5,498,573Health$805,164Human Services$500,000Philanthropy$246,514Arts & Culture$142,000Community Improvement$52,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC — $14,260,932 over 2y, 10% of budgetTEACH LAS VEGAS — $1,754,656 over 4y, 28% of budgetLEMNIS — $1,710,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBATTLE BORN ACADEMY INC — $1,675,860 over 5y, 87% of budgetSouthern Nevada Trades High School CO Brett Willis — $1,600,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetSAGE COLLEGIATE PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,551,599 over 5y, 93% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY OF NEVADA — $1,500,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCivica Nevada — $1,495,744 over 4y, 12% of budgetPILOTED SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC — $1,122,286 over 4y, 12% of budgetVegas Vista Academy — $1,093,094 over 3y, 100% of budgetPinecrest Academy of Northern Nevada — $971,571 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetFuturo Academy Incorporated — $901,896 over 4y, 99% of budgetROOTED SCHOOL — $900,350 over 4y, 11% of budgetGOODEN FOUNDATION INC — $805,164 over 3y, 73% of budgetYoung Womens Leadership Academy of Las Vegas — $801,640 over 3y, 21% of budgetDO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE — $800,086 over 3y, 26% of budgetCLV STRONG START ACADEMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INC — $750,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetWESTERN YOUTH LEADERSHIP ENGAGEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT SCHOOL — $603,796 over 1y, 65% of budgetTNTP INC — $570,325 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetELKO INSTITUTE FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT — $520,630 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetLAS VEGAS PREPARATORY — $465,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetEXPLORE ACADEMY LAS VEGAS — $333,020 over 1y, 13% of budgetNevada Rise Academy — $303,286 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA — $275,452 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEVADA STATE HIGH SCHOOL — $241,882 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGIRLS EMPOWERMENT MIDDLE SCHOOL LV — $238,323 over 3y, 62% of budgetPARENT LEADERSHIP TEAM OF NEVADA — $236,505 over 3y, 67% of budgetJOBS FOR NEVADAS GRADUATES INC — $210,798 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOLS — $209,374 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $201,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY — $185,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAccelerate Institute — $183,589 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetDEMOCRACY PREP AT THE AGASSI CAMPUS — $165,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEXPLORE ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $154,017 over 1y, 37% of budgetDEMOCRACY PREP PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $142,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEQUIPO ACADEMY — $138,600 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL — $125,318 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTEACH PLUS INC — $120,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBES INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLAS VEGAS COLLEGIATE — $100,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetMARIPOSA LANGUAGE AND LEARNING ACADEMY — $88,930 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF ACE — $85,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetPILOTED SCHOOLS OF INDIANA INC — $70,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $61,514 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMater Academy of Northern Nevada — $60,233 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThrivepoint High School — $53,639 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDIVERSE CHARTER SCHOOLS COALITION INC — $26,542 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLARCHMONT SCHOOLS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Charter Fund Inc D/B/…New Schools FundWalton Family Foundat…The Mind Trust IncGreat Public Schools …City FundGates FoundationDick's Sporting Goods…Share Our StrengthSilicon Valley Commun…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…
Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth FundCO20.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · New Schools Fund · Walton Family Foundation Inc · The Mind Trust Inc · Great Public Schools Now · City Fund · Gates Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Share Our Strength · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Opportunity 180 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Opportunity 180?

    Find your warmest path to Opportunity 180 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 65 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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