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Robert S & Dorothy J Keyser Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$869k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Youth Development$892kArts & Culture$810kHealth$746kEducation$518kHuman Services$365kRecreation & Sports$285kEnvironment$190kReligion$134kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $304k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $550k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SKY TAVERN$100,000
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION$100,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$100,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN NEVADA INC$100,000
SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA$50,000
CRISTO REY ST VIATOR LAS VEGAS$34,000
DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$25,000
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$25,000
WOMEN'S RESOURCE MEDICAL CENTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC$20,000
NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION$20,000
TAHOE FUND$20,000
OLIVE CREST$20,000
LAS VEGAS AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$20,000
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 (FY20–24, $432k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $35k → 10%Collaborative Center Foundation: $50k → 13%Foster Kinship: $20k → 13%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $10k → 10%YMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $125k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $50k → 13%Eddy House: $34k → 10%EDDY HOUSE: $33k → 10%Eddy House: $20k → 10%Miracle League of Las Vegas: $25k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 10%Domestic Violence Resource Cntr: $10k → 10%YOUTH IN PURSUIT: $10k → 10%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.

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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 20 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
39

Total granted

$2.3M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+28%

Still filing today

85%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $439k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • NM
    Nevada Museum of Art
    5× · 2020–2024 · $625k · revenue +111%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $500k · revenue +168%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES
    3× · 2020–2023 · $150k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • YO
    YMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +74%
  • RH
    Renown Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +547%
  • RH
    Renown Heath Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $100k

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
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Nevada Children's Foundation Inc

To support programs providing the highest quality service to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. these services include a residential program at eagle valley children's home and a respite program provided in the…

Human Services
3
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Nevada (BBBSN) is a non-profit 501(c) 3 corporation that is a leader in youth mentoring services. Since 1971, BBBSN has been developing positive relationships that have a direct and lasting impact on…

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4
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
5
Immunize Nevada

Immunize nevada advocates for and educates about the benefits of vaccines and fosters statewide collaboration to achieve nevada's health priorities.

Health
6
Nevada Realtors

To protect private property rights and enhance the success and profitability of the real estate profession.

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7
Nevada Casa Association Inc

The organization supports Nevada local CASA programs which recruit, train, retain and deploy volunteers to advocate for abused or neglected children.

Youth Development
8
The Nevada Discovery Museum

Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.

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9
Sierra Nevada Alliance

To protect and restore sierra lands, water, wildlife and rural communities. to engage and support efforts to adopt exemplary local sustainable community actions accross the sierra nevada that balance social, economic and environmental…

Environment
10
Community Services of Nevada

CSNV is engaged in comprehensive community development projects that promote neighborhood revitalization and economic development, community education and civic action, housing, development; cultural awareness, equity and

Housing & Shelter
11
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
12
Fair Government Nevada

To promote fair government practices and for all other legal purposes

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southern Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Youth in Pursuit. 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 33 years old; the field is 8. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number37%2%<5yr17%8%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr14%28%20–35yr6%30%35–55yr7%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value37%0%<5yr17%3%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr14%32%20–35yr6%20%35–55yr7%31%55yr+

The field is 37% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
22%
2,260/10,473

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

50 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. 50 of the 75 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
29/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LITTLE FLOWER SCHOOL — $150,000 · OtherLITTLE FLOWER SCHOOLRenown Health Foundation — $100,000 · OtherRenown Health FoundationRenown Heath Foundation — $100,000 · OtherRenown Heath FoundationDiocese of Reno — $100,000 · OtherDiocese of RenoFirst Tee — $100,000 · OtherFirst TeeJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN NEVADA — $100,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN NEVADATHE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF LAS VEGAS — $100,000 · OtherTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF LAS VEGASTAHOE FUND — $105,000 · OtherTAHOE FUND+33 more — $712,600 · Other+33 moreNevada Museum of Art — $625,000 · Arts & CultureNevada Museum of ArtDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $100,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S …+3 more — $35,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $500,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEV…YMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $125,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SOUT…EDDY HOUSE — $87,000 · Human ServicesEDDY HOUSECATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $50,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHA…COLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesCOLLABORATIO…Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada — $35,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Cha…MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS — $25,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE LEAG…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER — $20,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER KINSHIP — $20,000 · Human Services+2 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES — $150,000 · HealthALLIANCE F…OLIVE CREST — $50,000 · HealthOLIVE CRES…NORTHERN NEVADA DENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS — $50,000 · HealthNORTHERN N…SHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthSHE RECOVE…NEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC — $30,000 · HealthNEVADA HEA…Grant A Gift Autism Foundation — $30,000 · HealthGrant A Gi…WOMENS RESOURCE MEDICAL CENTERS — $20,000 · Health+3 more — $25,000 · Health+3 moreUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation — $200,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $50,000 · EducationNEVADA SKI TEAM BOOSTERS — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationSky Tavern Inc — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsRENO BIKE PROJECT INC — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsSpecial Olympics Nevada — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsTahoe Rim Trail Association — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,567,600Arts & Culture$760,000International$500,000Human Services$432,000Health$385,000Education$265,000Recreation & Sports$145,000

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 budgetNevada Museum of Art — $625,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $500,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation — $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $125,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTAHOE FUND — $105,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetRenown Health Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN NEVADA — $100,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSky Tavern Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetEDDY HOUSE — $87,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetOLIVE CREST — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE HARRAH AUTOMOBILE FOUNDATION NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA DENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS — $50,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEP 2 INC — $45,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC — $40,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRENO BIKE PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSHE RECOVERS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGrant A Gift Autism Foundation — $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE MEDICAL CENTERS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOSTER KINSHIP — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAS VEGAS AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYouth In Pursuit — $10,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetARTS FOR ALL NEVADA — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMoment Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSpecial Olympics Nevada — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTahoe Rim Trail Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN - SIERRAS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHIGH SIERRA INDUSTRIES INC — $3,600 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.

NV Energy Charitable …Dermody Properties Fo…The E L Cord Foundati…Community Foundation …Engelstad Family Foun…Thelma B & Thomas P H…Nevada Community Foun…The Bretzlaff Foundat…Cashman Family Founda…Robert Z Hawkins Foun…Peek Family Charitabl…United Way of Souther…
NV Energy Charitable FoundationNV62.5× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Engelstad Family Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · The Bretzlaff Foundation Inc · Cashman Family Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada

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 Robert S & Dorothy J Keyser Foundation 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    26report 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

    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 Robert S & Dorothy J Keyser Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Robert S & Dorothy J Keyser 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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