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Stella Roy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$3.3MArts & Culture$2.1MInternational$1.2MReligion$440kFood & Nutrition$100kHuman Services$100kYouth Development$73kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $863k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.7M
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$76M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEEP MEMORY ALIVE$1,000,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$1,000,000
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$692,000
CELEBRITY ADVENTURES INC$200,000
COMMISSARIAT OF THE HOLY LAND FOR U S A$200,000
SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
NEVADA BALLET THEATRE$100,000
THREE SQUARE$100,000
MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA$100,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$63,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$10,000
NEVADA BALLET THEATRE$6,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN NEVADA$5,000
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 (FY24–25, $605k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CELEBRITY ADVENTURES INC: $200k → 11%SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $150k → 13%CELEBRITY ADVENTURES INC: $50k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $100k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 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.
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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 13% of Stella Roy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Stella Roy 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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 4 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$3.0M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+14%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureReligionHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • NB
    NEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2.1M · revenue -1%
  • CO
    COMMISSARIAT OF THE HOLY LAND FOR U S A
    3× · 2023–2025 · $440k
  • MN
    MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $250k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • AL
    AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
  • NA
    Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that raises and manages private funds for the benefit of UNLV. Our mission is to increase philanthropic support for the university, grow its endowment for…

Education
2
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
3
Northern Nevada Children's Cancer Foundation

The foundation's mission is to enhance the quality of life for children with cancer and their families by providing financial assistance and compassionate support programs while advocating for increased research funds and raising public…

Philanthropy
4
Childfund Alliance

Childfund alliance is a global network of 11 child-focused development and humanitarian organizations working in more than 70 countries. we help nearly 30 million children and their families to overcome poverty and the underlying…

International
5
Make-a-Wish Foundation International

None

Human Services
6
Children's Tumor Foundation

Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.

Health
7
Alliance for Childhood Diseases

To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.

Health
8
Make-a-Wish Foundation of America

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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9
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
10
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

—
11
Nevada Community Foundation Inc

Our mission is to steward our donors' charitable giving, now and for generations to come and to provide leadership, vision and impactful community investment for southern nevada.

Philanthropy
12
Nathan Adelson Hospice Inc

NAH provides comprehensive end-of-life care and influences better care for all in our community. We honor the importance of choice and control for those who are ill, so they may define for themselves the most comfortable and dignified…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada; the most unlike its peers is American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $2,106,000 · Arts & CultureNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INCKEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $1,000,000 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVECOMMISSARIAT OF THE HOLY LAND FOR U S A: $440,000 · OtherCOMMISSARIAT OF THE HOL…LAS VEGAS AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $73,000 · OtherAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $1,025,000 · ReligionAMERICAN LEBANE…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDRE…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $952,834 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID …+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $250,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WI…CELEBRITY ADVENTURES INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesCELEBRITY…SELFLESS LOVE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSELFLESS …+1 more: $4,500 · Human ServicesTHREE SQUARE: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$2,106,000Other$1,513,000Religion$1,025,000Health$1,000,000Philanthropy$957,834Human Services$604,500Food & Nutrition$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $2,106,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $1,025,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $952,834 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $250,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCELEBRITY ADVENTURES INC: $250,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAS VEGAS AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $73,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc: $4,500 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.

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.

Elaine P Wynn and Family Foundation BtCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elaine P Wynn and Family Foundation Bt · Canarelli Family Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Stella Roy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stella Roy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–10%
    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.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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