· Private foundation
The Bennett Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $201k
- $250k+2 grants · $823k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THREE SQUARE | $517,480 |
| UNLV FOUNDATION | $305,076 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $100,000 |
| MOONRIDGE GROUP FOUNDATION | $50,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NEVADA BALLET THEATRE | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| LAS VEGAS AREA COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA | $25,000 |
| DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NOAH'S ANIMAL HOUSE | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR AN INDEPENDENT TOMORROW | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TSTHREE SQUARE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +9%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +18%
- NBNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $299k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UFUNLV FOUNDATION (SCHOOL OF MEDICINE)one grant, 2021 · $25k
- ODOne Drop Foundation Incone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -81%
- OVOPPORTUNITY VILLAGEone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +9%
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.
The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…
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…
The nevada council on problem gambling is a non-profit information and referral agency whose efforts are focused on reducing the impact of problem gambling on individuals, families and communities in nevada. it is the mission of the nevada…
Jobs for nevadas graduates has a mission to empower young people with the skills and support to succeed in education, employment, and life.
The mission of slam nv is to prepare students for postsecondary studies and careers through an engaging educational program emphasizing sports leadership and management career preparation. the school program will offer students in grades…
The mission of the nevada state college foundation board of trustees is to serve as ambassadors for nevada state college, to serve as fiduciary stewards of funds received by the foundation, and to raise funds in support of the educational,…
Roseman university of health sciences advances the health and wellness of the communities we serve by educating current and future generations of health professionals, conducting research and providing patient care. we actively pursue…
The mission of the Leadership Foundation of Greater Las Vegas, Inc. is to build Southern Nevada community's capacity to lead, educate and develop talent. The Foundation offers signature programs that cultivate business and community…
Educate Nevada Now (ENN) is a non-partisan education policy organization focused on ensuring that every Nevada child has access to a quality education, regardless of their family income or circumstances. ENN strives to make fair and…
University of Nevada School of Medicine Integrated Clinical Services, Inc. is the acting oversight board for various non-profit organizations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for an Independent Tomorrow and the most unlike its peers is St Judes Ranch for Children Inc. 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 27 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.
30 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. 30 of the 53 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 THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAS VEGAS AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CASA DE LUZ ↗
- Who funds One Drop Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds THE MOONRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR AN INDEPENDENT TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds TOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Grant A Gift Autism Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S FORUM 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: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Canarelli Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Wynn Resorts Foundation · The Boyd Family Foundation · The Tito and Sandra Tiberti Foundation · Elaine P Wynn and Family Foundation Bt · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · Rosenblum Family Foundation
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 The Bennett Family 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.
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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