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Raiders Foundation

The RAIDERS FOUNDATION is committed to increasing community and civic health through the support of active military and veterans, youth development and growing the game of football.

$9.2M
Granted FY2023
30
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$6.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Community Improvement$6.8MEducation$1.8MHealth$1.3MRecreation & Sports$590kYouth Development$485kHuman Services$331kPhilanthropy$311kCivil Rights$208kOther$0
02FY2023 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 30 grants below total $8,911,879, the rows itemized in this filing. The $9,202,409 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $290,530 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.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $284k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $650k
  • $250k+3 grants · $8.0M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAIDERS FOUNDATION NV$6,728,379
CLEVELAND CLINIC LOU RUVO CENTER FOR BRAIN HEALTH$1,000,000
BILETNIKOFF FOUNDATION$250,000
ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$100,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$100,000
OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE$100,000
HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$50,000
100 BLACK MEN OF LAS VEGAS INC$50,000
20 PEARLS FOUNDATION$50,000
AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS LAS VEGAS$50,000
YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC$31,000
HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC$25,000
NEVADA MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
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 (FY18–23, $559k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $31k → 12%American Red Cross: $10k → 14%Davis Street Family Resource Center: $20k → 10%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $50k → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $25k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $5k → 13%Gentlemen By Choice Community DEvt Corp: $40k → 13%Safe Nest: $20k → 13%NEVADA PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $10k → 13%YMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5k → 13%US Vets - Las Vegas: $10k → 13%GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $31k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $15k → 13%GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $12k → 13%Communities in Schools of Nevada: $200k → 13%Communities in Schools of Nevada: $40k → 13%Communities in Schools of Southern Nevada: $35k → 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

ME
WA
NY
NV
IN
PA
CA
VA
AZ
DC
HI
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Raiders Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in NV; by stated purpose, 77%.

Raiders Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 17 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
61

Total granted

$1.3M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+55%

Still filing today

76%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $325k · revenue +165%
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $89k · revenue +24%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
    2× · 2018–2023 · $85k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • UC
    UVALDE CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • SS
    SHARE- SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND RESOURCES FOR THE ELDERLY
    one grant, 2018 · $160k · revenue -39%
  • WC
    WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $131k
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
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Sports Leadership and Management Academy of Nevada

The mission of slam nv is to prepare students for postsecondary studies and careers through an engaging educational program emphasizing sports leadership and management career preparation. the school program will offer students in grades…

Education
3
Nevada Council On Problem Gambling

The nevada council on problem gambling is a non-profit information and referral agency whose efforts are focused on reducing the impact of problem gambling on individuals, families and communities in nevada. it is the mission of the nevada…

—
4
Northern Nevada Sports & Recreation 6

Nnsr was formed in 2012 with the goal of bringing the community together in a positive, active, and enriching environment. since our formation, we have grown by leaps and bounds. our first program started with just 50 kids. now, we are…

Recreation & Sports
5
New Vista Ranch Inc

New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.

Human Services
6
Jobs for Nevadas Graduates Inc

Jobs for nevadas graduates has a mission to empower young people with the skills and support to succeed in education, employment, and life.

Education
7
Nevada Succeeds

Our membership is united in pursuit of immediate and continuous improvements to the state's education system. we support an ambitious, agressive and comprehensive reform agenda to dramatically increase the college and workforce readiness…

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8
Nevada Volunteers

To solicit applications for americorps funding and to support the volunteer infrastructure in nevada.

Philanthropy
9
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
10
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nothern Nevada Inc

To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
11
Aces Foundation

To improve the quality of life for disadvantaged children and families throughout nevada. to support health and fitness initiatives, education and healthy communities and empowering and encouring women in sports.

Philanthropy
12
Lvmpd Explorer Program

To educate and involve youth in police operations, to interest them in possible law enforecement careers, and to build mutual understanding.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southern Nevada; the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 99 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
55/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAIDERS FOUNDATION NV: $6,728,379 · Community ImprovementRAIDERS FOUNDATION NV+2 more: $105,000 · Community ImprovementUVALDE CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,000,000 · OtherUVALDE CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT S…KEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $1,000,000 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVECLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $191,708 · OtherSHARE- SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND RESOURCES FOR THE ELDERLY: $160,000 · OtherSOUTHERN NEVADA YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION: $135,000 · OtherWASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $131,484 · Other+43 more: $1,024,755 · Other+43 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $325,000 · Human Services100 BLACK MEN OF LAS VEGAS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesGAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $43,000 · Human ServicesGENTLEMEN BY CHOICE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE: $32,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $31,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $25,000 · Human Services+8 more: $95,000 · Human ServicesBILETNIKOFF FOUNDATION: $265,000 · PhilanthropyOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $46,350 · PhilanthropyBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG DAWG FOOTBALL INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentREAL TALK YOUTH IMPACT PROGRAM: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $28,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC: $28,000 · Youth DevelopmentOakland Police-Community Activities League: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA: $20,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $15,000 · Youth Development20 PEARLS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationSTUDENT PROGRAM FOR ACADEMIC & ATHLETIC TRANSITION: $20,000 · EducationIMAGINE SCHOOLS INC: $18,812 · EducationUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $15,000 · EducationMATER ACADEMY OF NEVADA: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · EducationPinecrest Academy of Nevada: $10,376 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $10,000 · EducationIXS FOUNDATION: $9,999 · Education+2 more: $10,549 · EducationTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $65,000 · HealthDRI RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthNEVADA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $25,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $20,000 · HealthGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · Health
Community Improvement$6,833,379Other$3,642,947Human Services$641,000Philanthropy$511,350Youth Development$431,000Education$172,236Health$160,000

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 budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $325,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBILETNIKOFF FOUNDATION: $265,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetSHARE- SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND RESOURCES FOR THE ELDERLY: $160,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $89,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $85,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLas Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation: $66,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $65,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $57,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIG DAWG FOOTBALL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budget20 PEARLS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF LAS VEGAS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGREATER LAS VEGAS INNER CITY GAMES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $43,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICE GUILD OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $40,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetREAL TALK YOUTH IMPACT PROGRAM: $40,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetGENTLEMEN BY CHOICE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $40,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE: $32,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS INC: $31,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRI RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $28,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INC: $28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERGING VETS AND PLAYERS: $25,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetOakland Police-Community Activities League: $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEVADA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Davis Street Community Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVEGAS SPORTS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetUSA FOOTBALL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE NESTTEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMAGINE SCHOOLS INC: $18,812 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDWARD KLINE MEM HOMELESS VETERANS FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWreaths Across America: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA HAND INC GROUP RETURN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN NV FOOTBALL COACHES ASSOC: $15,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATER ACADEMY OF NEVADA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $12,500 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

NV Energy Charitable …Vegas Golden Knights …United Way of Souther…Nevada Community Foun…Canarelli Family Foun…Mgm Resorts FoundationRaiders Foundation NvWynn Resorts Foundati…Engelstad Family Foun…Three SquareAmerica's CharitiesSpeedway Children's C…
NV Energy Charitable FoundationNV55.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Canarelli Family Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Raiders Foundation Nv · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · Three Square · America's Charities · Speedway Children's Charities

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Raiders Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Raiders Foundation 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 99 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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