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The Boyd Family Foundation at a glance

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The Boyd Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$9.0MCrime & Legal$1.7MHealth$1.6MHuman Services$641kRecreation & Sports$244kArts & Culture$167kYouth Development$84kAnimals$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $522k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $465k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.9M
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$80M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNLV FOUNDATION$1,553,500
LEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$700,000
NEVADA HEALTH & BIOSCIENCE CORP$400,000
CRISTO REY ST VIATOR COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL$250,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$115,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION$100,000
CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$50,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$50,000
NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE$50,000
OLIVE CREST$40,000
PATRIOTS & PAWS$36,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$31,000
ALS OF NEVADA$25,000
THREE SQUARE$25,000
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 (FY17–25, $495k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PATRIOTS & PAWS: $36k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%PATRIOTS & PAWS: $23k → 10%MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $3k → 13%PATRIOTS & PAWS: $18k → 10%PATRIOTS & PAWS: $8k → 10%PATRIOTS & PAWS: $3k → 10%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $110k → 13%PATRIOTS & PAWS: $3k → 10%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $50k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $25k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL: $15k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $10k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL: $10k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $5k → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $16k → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $1k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $1k → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $1k → 13%SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%SHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%BOYS TOWN NEVADA: $1k → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $25k → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $10k → 13%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 13%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 13%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $250 → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
CA
VA
MD
LA
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 40 repeat orgs$692k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
28

Total granted

$13M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+2%

Still filing today

78%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $512k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $8.5M · revenue +18%
  • LA
    LEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
    3× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +93%
  • NA
    Nathan Adelson Hospice Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • BF
    BPS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • TG
    THE GUINN CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • MT
    MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -15%
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
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.

Human Services
3
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Nv

Our mission is to be an innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless dogs and cats, primarily through their rescue and placement in forever loving homes and by promoting spaying and neutering to control pet…

Unclassified
4
Nevada Council On Problem Gambling

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…

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5
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
6
New Vista Ranch Inc

New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.

Human Services
7
Nevada Volunteers

To solicit applications for americorps funding and to support the volunteer infrastructure in nevada.

Philanthropy
8
Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue Inc

The tahoe nordic search and rescue team (tnsar) ... was conceived in 1976 as a response to the death of a boy lost off the back side of northstar-at-tahoe ski area during a blizzard. there was, at the time, no organized backcountry team to…

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9
Unlv Research Foundation

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…

Science & Tech
10
Nevada Child Seekers

Nevada child seekers mission is to advocate for and engage in prevention, identification and location efforts on behalf of missing and exploited children.

Crime & Legal
11
Nevada Veterans Foundation

Nevada veterans foundation's mission is to help improve quality of life for members of the military, military retirees, veterans and their families in the state of nevada.

Public Benefit
12
Safe House Inc

S.a.f.e. house is a community based non-profit organization committed to stop abuse in the family environment by providing a comprehensive approach to end domestic violence that includes crisis intervention, safe shelter, counseling,…

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 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.
04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 86 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
34/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $8,492,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION+6 more: $224,500 · EducationNEVADA HEALTH & BIOSCIENCE CORP: $800,000 · OtherNEVADA HEALTH & BI…CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $275,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESCRISTO REY ST VIATOR COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL: $250,000 · OtherCRISTO REY ST VIAT…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $127,500 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S…SOUTHERN NEVADA SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $100,000 · OtherBPS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $82,000 · Other+45 more: $475,950 · Other+45 moreLEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $1,710,000 · Civil RightsLEGAL AID CENT…+1 more: $15,000 · Civil RightsNathan Adelson Hospice Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesPATRIOTS AND PAWS: $89,000 · Human ServicesST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC: $65,250 · Human ServicesLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $51,500 · Human ServicesHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $25,000 · Human Services+5 more: $29,500 · Human ServicesCANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER: $178,500 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $150,000 · HealthGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $40,000 · HealthOLIVE CREST: $40,000 · HealthALS UNITED NEVADA: $32,000 · Health+2 more: $7,500 · HealthLAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $80,000 · Arts & CultureNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $29,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE NEVADA MANSION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $82,500 · Public BenefitTHE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public BenefitNEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $5,500 · Public Benefit
Education$8,716,500Other$2,210,950Civil Rights$1,725,000Human Services$495,250Health$448,000Arts & Culture$136,000Public Benefit$98,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $8,492,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetLEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $1,710,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Inc: $200,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER: $178,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBPS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATRIOTS AND PAWS: $89,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $82,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $82,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $81,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM: $80,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC: $65,250 over 3y, 47% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $53,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $51,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN OUR PLANET: $40,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALS UNITED NEVADA: $32,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetNEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $29,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $23,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NEVADA MANSION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPOWER2PARENT: $17,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER KINSHIP: $13,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDedication and Everlasting Love to Animals: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Nevada: $8,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSansum Diabetes Research Institute: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $5,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetROSEMAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVEGAS PET RESCUE PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFIRST NV: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA DE LUZ: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice Inc ↗
  • Who funds CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BPS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PATRIOTS AND PAWS ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
  • Who funds LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds Grant A Gift Autism Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GREEN OUR PLANET ↗
  • Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALS UNITED NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NEVADA MANSION ↗
  • Who funds POWER2PARENT ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗

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.

NV Energy Charitable …Engelstad Family Foun…United Way of Souther…Nevada Community Foun…Mgm Resorts FoundationWynn Resorts Foundati…Canarelli Family Foun…The Mel & Ruth Wolzin…Mondays DarkVegas Golden Knights …America's CharitiesThe Bennett Family Fo…
NV Energy Charitable FoundationNV48.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation · Mondays Dark · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · America's Charities · The Bennett Family 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 The Boyd Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Boyd Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Boyd Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Boyd Family 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 86 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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