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Roxie and Azad Joseph Foundation at a glance

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Roxie and Azad Joseph Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$625k
Granted FY2026still arriving
33
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.3MYouth Development$395kArts & Culture$390kHealth$265kEducation$140kCommunity Improvement$110kHuman Services$75kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$0
02FY2026 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $350k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIDZONE MUSEUM$200,000
TAHOE FOREST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$50,000
ARTOWN$30,000
TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE$25,000
SPARKS ROTARY COMMUNITY FUND$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA FOUNDATION CONSTITUTIONAL LAW$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA FOUNDATIONKUNR$20,000
TERRY LEE WELLS DISCOVERY MUSEUM$20,000
CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA$15,000
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART$15,000
FIRST TEE$10,000
RENO PHILHARMONIC$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADAST VINCENT'S$10,000
SAFE TALK FOR TEENS$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–26, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $10k → 10%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $10k → 10%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $10k → 10%NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $10k → 10%EDDY HOUSE: $10k → 10%EDDY HOUSE: $10k → 10%SAFE TALK FOR TEENS: $10k → 10%SAFE TALK FOR TEENS: $10k → 10%SAFE TALK FOR TEENS: $10k → 10%SAFE TALK FOR TEENS: $10k → 10%THE 1701 GROUP: $5k → 10%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 39 repeat orgs$238k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
11

Total granted

$3.2M
$203k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

62%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • A
    ARTOWN
    4× · 2023–2026 · $90k · revenue +19%
  • FB
    Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc
    4× · 2023–2026 · $60k · revenue +20%
  • CC
    Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada
    4× · 2023–2026 · $50k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA FOUNDATIONBUSINESS BUILDING
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • NC
    NEVADA CARES CAMPUS HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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
Junior Achievement of Northern Nevada

To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy

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2
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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3
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
4
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
5
Special Olympics Nevada

The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. This gives them continuing opportunities to…

Recreation & Sports
6
Nevada Kids Foundation Inc

The nevada kids foundation is a children's non profit that provides essential items and resources to the struggling youth in our communities. our goal is to empower children to live a life with greater hope, freedom, and opportunities for…

Human Services
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…

—
8
Fair Government Nevada

To promote fair government practices and for all other legal purposes

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9
Boys and Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe

The mission of the Club is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe has been a cornerstone of the…

Unclassified
10
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
11
Healthy Nevada
Health
12
Sierra Nevada Teen Ranch

The Mission of the SNTR is to Operate a ranch for at risk kids.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Nothern Nevada Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Club of Mason Valley. 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

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
13/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISCELLANEOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: $1,191,500 · OtherMISCELLANEOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONSUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA FOUNDATIONBUSINESS BUILDING: $100,000 · OtherSPARKS ROTARY COMMUNITY FUND: $100,000 · OtherTAHOE FOREST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA FOUNDATIONKUNR: $90,000 · OtherTERRY LEE WELLS DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $80,000 · OtherTRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $75,000 · Other+22 more: $432,500 · Other+22 moreSIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM: $300,000 · Arts & CultureSIERRA NEVADA CHI…ARTOWN: $90,000 · Arts & CultureARTOWNNevada Museum of Art: $60,000 · Arts & CultureNevada Museum of …CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC …RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTAHOE FOREST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $65,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada: $50,000 · Human ServicesSAFE TALK FOR TEENS: $40,000 · Human ServicesEDDY HOUSE: $40,000 · Human ServicesNEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $40,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $160,000 · InternationalSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE D5190: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN - SIERRAS: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentACHIEVEIMENT BEYOND OBSTACLES: $40,000 · EducationURBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS: $15,000 · EducationChurchill Library Association: $15,000 · Education
Other$2,169,000Arts & Culture$520,000Health$190,000Human Services$175,000International$160,000Youth Development$140,000Education$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM: $300,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $160,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTAHOE FOREST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetARTOWN: $90,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $65,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE TALK FOR TEENS: $40,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetEDDY HOUSE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $40,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetACHIEVEIMENT BEYOND OBSTACLES: $40,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE D5190: $30,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSierra Kids Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC WITH CONFIDENCE: $10,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetRENO BIKE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetROTARY ZONE 26-27 FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN - SIERRAS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUSA Shooting Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE FOREST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTOWN ↗
  • Who funds CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada ↗
  • Who funds CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
  • Who funds SAFE TALK FOR TEENS ↗
  • Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEIMENT BEYOND OBSTACLES ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY YOUTH EXCHANGE D5190 ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS ↗
  • Who funds Sierra Kids Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Churchill Library Association ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC WITH CONFIDENCE ↗

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.

The E L Cord Foundati…Robert Z Hawkins Foun…NV Energy Charitable …The Bretzlaff Foundat…Thelma B & Thomas P H…Renown HealthDermody Properties Fo…Tahoe Community Found…Estelle J Kelsey Foun…Robert S & Dorothy J …The Nell J Redfield F…Peek Family Charitabl…
The E L Cord FoundationNV43.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The E L Cord Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · The Bretzlaff Foundation Inc · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Renown Health · Dermody Properties Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Estelle J Kelsey Foundation · Robert S & Dorothy J Keyser Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Peek Family Charitable Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Roxie and Azad Joseph 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 53 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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