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· Public charity

Silver State Scholarships

To inspire breakthroughs in the way underpriviledged children are educated achieving, immediate and lasting change in their lives.

$639k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$322k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$1.1M
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $586,797, the rows itemized in this filing. The $639,022 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $52,225 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
  • $250k+1 grant · $322k
$18,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%St Teresa of Avila Catholic School: $9k → 13%Capstone Christian Academy: $7k → 13%Community Christian Academy: $6k → 15%ST VIATOR CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $31k → 13%St Viator Catholic School: $29k → 13%MONTESSORI VISIONS ACADEMY: $9k → 13%Montessori Visions Academy: $8k → 13%Awaken Christian Academy: $19k → 13%AWAKEN CHRISTINAN ACADEMY: $8k → 13%MOUNTAIN VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $15k → 13%Mountain View Christian School: $11k → 13%Cornerstone Christian Academy: $14k → 13%Vegas Valley Adventist Academy: $12k → 13%DESERT TARAH ACADEMY: $322k → 13%NEW HORIZONS ACADEMY: $6k → 13%Desert Torah Academy: $170k → 13%Cristo Rey St Viator Prep: $10k → 13%Our Lady of Las Vegas Catholic School: $17k → 13%ADELSON EDUCATIONAL CAMPUSE: $19k → 13%OUR LADY OF LV CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $16k → 13%Adelson Educational Campus: $12k → 13%BISHOP GORMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 13%St Francis de Sales Catholic: $12k → 13%MESIVTA OF LAS VEGAS: $19k → 13%Bishop Gorman HS: $14k → 13%GREEN VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $28k → 13%FAITH LUTHERAN M&H SCHOOL: $10k → 13%Green Valley Christian School: $15k → 13%Applied Scholastics Academy: $7k → 13%American Heritage Academy: $8k → 13%St Anne Catholic School: $22k → 13%Mesquite Christian Academy: $7k → 13%YESHIVA DAY SCHOOL OF LAS VEGAS: $51k → 13%Yeshiva Day School: $13k → 13%Lake Mead Christian Academy: $38k → 13%LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $36k → 13%Brilliant Child Christian Academy: $12k → 13%Faith Lutheran Academy: $7k → 13%Spring Valley Christian Academy: $6k → 13%International Christian Academy: $12k → 13%Faith Lutheran MSHS: $19k → 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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$949k · 10 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$949k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+89%

Still filing today

40%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • CO
    CHABAD OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $492k
  • TR
    THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF LAS VEGAS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $156k
  • LM
    LAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $74k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • FL
    FAITH LUTHERAN MIDDLE SCHOOL & HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $19k
  • CC
    Cornerstone Christian Academy
    2× · 2022–2023 · $14k
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CHURCH OF LAS VEGAS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $12k
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
Apple Valley Christian School

Provide educational services on a christian based curriculum

Education
2
Kings Classical Academy

Provide classroom instruction and educational services to K-12 students

Education
3
Valley Christian Academy Inc

Christian School grades k-8

Education
4
Classical Christian Academy Inc

Se schedule o classical christian academy

Education
5
Legacy 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

Education
6
Hermiston Adventist School Foundation
Education
7
Las Vegas Collegiate

To provide high quality academics to k-5 students

Education
8
Heritage Classical Christian Academy

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
9
Christian Heritage School

Education

Education
10
Greater Oasis Christian Academ

Operates a private school for grades kindergarten through 12th grade

Education
11
Nlt Academy Inc

Nlt academy, inc. is a fully-accredited institution that fosters academic excellence and high achievement, educating in a christ-centered environment.

Education
12
Christian Schools Inc

Education - private christian school grades k-12

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Mead Christian Ministries; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHABAD OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC: $492,380 · OtherCHABAD OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INCTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF LAS VEGAS: $156,244 · OtherTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF LAS VEGASLAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $74,015 · OtherLAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIESGREEN VALLEY CHRISTIAN CENTER: $43,418 · Other+15 more: $225,775 · Other+15 moreYESHIVA DAY SCHOOL OF LAS VEGAS: $64,170 · EducationYESHIVA DAY…Academy for Learning: $16,750 · EducationAcademy for…LIBER INC: $8,000 · EducationLIBER INCCapstone Christian Academy: $7,307 · EducationCapstone Ch…MESQUITE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $6,500 · EducationMESQUITE CH…NEW HORIZONS CENTER FOR LEARNING INC: $5,962 · EducationNEW HORIZON…
Other$991,832Education$108,689

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAKE MEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $74,015 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYESHIVA DAY SCHOOL OF LAS VEGAS: $64,170 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $30,556 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAcademy for Learning: $16,750 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetLIBER INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCapstone Christian Academy: $7,307 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMESQUITE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $6,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetNEW HORIZONS CENTER FOR LEARNING INC: $5,962 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 ↗

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.

Dinosaurs and RosesEducation Fund of Nor…Mgm Resorts FoundationLas Vegas Clark Count…Jewish Federation of …Nevada Community Foun…Tulsa Community Found…Folds of Honor Founda…Global ImpactGs Donor Advised Phil…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…
Dinosaurs and RosesNV70.7× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to Silver State Scholarships?

    Find your warmest path to Silver State Scholarships 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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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