· Public charity
Silver State Scholarships
To inspire breakthroughs in the way underpriviledged children are educated achieving, immediate and lasting change in their lives.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $586,797 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $639,022 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,225 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
- $250k+1 grant · $322k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DESERT TARAH ACADEMY | $322,000 |
| YESHIVA DAY SCHOOL OF LAS VEGAS | $51,250 |
| LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $36,346 |
| ST VIATOR CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $30,640 |
| GREEN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $28,300 |
| ADELSON EDUCATIONAL CAMPUSE | $18,750 |
| MESIVTA OF LAS VEGAS | $18,750 |
| BISHOP GORMAN HIGH SCHOOL | $16,436 |
| OUR LADY OF LV CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $15,744 |
| MOUNTAIN VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $15,125 |
| FAITH LUTHERAN M&H SCHOOL | $9,750 |
| MONTESSORI VISIONS ACADEMY | $9,354 |
| AWAKEN CHRISTINAN ACADEMY | $8,390 |
| NEW HORIZONS ACADEMY | $5,962 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
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
- COCHABAD OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC3× · 2022–2024 · $492k
- TRTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF LAS VEGAS3× · 2022–2024 · $156k
- LMLAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES3× · 2022–2024 · $74k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- FLFAITH LUTHERAN MIDDLE SCHOOL & HIGH SCHOOL2× · 2022–2023 · $19k
- CCCornerstone Christian Academy2× · 2022–2023 · $14k
- ICINTERNATIONAL CHURCH OF LAS VEGAS2× · 2022–2023 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide educational services on a christian based curriculum
Provide classroom instruction and educational services to K-12 students
Christian School grades k-8
Se schedule o classical christian academy
To create a community of learners where strong christian character is built and academic excellence is achieved through a university model christ-centered education
To provide high quality academics to k-5 students
Aiding parents in their responsibility to educate their children so that they may love the lord their god with all their heart, all their soul, all their mind and all their strength.
Education
Operates a private school for grades kindergarten through 12th grade
Nlt academy, inc. is a fully-accredited institution that fosters academic excellence and high achievement, educating in a christ-centered environment.
Education - private christian school grades k-12
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Mead Christian Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Excel Christian School. 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 45 years old; the field is 7. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 41% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 24% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
12 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. 12 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA DAY SCHOOL OF LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds DR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Academy for Learning ↗
- Who funds LIBER INC ↗
- Who funds Capstone Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds MESQUITE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS CENTER FOR LEARNING INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dinosaurs and Roses · Education Fund of Northern Nevada · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Las Vegas Clark County Urban League · Jewish Federation of Las Vegas Sigesmund Center · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Global Impact · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Silver State Scholarships 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.
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.
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