· Private foundation
The Boyd Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $522k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $465k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $50,000 |
| NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE | $50,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| OLIVE CREST | $40,000 |
| PATRIOTS & PAWS | $36,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $31,000 |
| USO NEVADA | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $25,000 |
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 (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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $512k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $8.5M · revenue +18%
- LALEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA3× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +93%
- NANathan Adelson Hospice Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- BFBPS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- TGTHE GUINN CENTERone grant, 2020 · $25k
- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -15%
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
To solicit applications for americorps funding and to support the volunteer infrastructure in nevada.
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…
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…
Nevada child seekers mission is to advocate for and engage in prevention, identification and location efforts on behalf of missing and exploited children.
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.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 8. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 37% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 86 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 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 BPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno 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 GREEN OUR PLANET ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds Grant A Gift Autism Foundation ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Boyd 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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