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The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family 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.

$123k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$67,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 11
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementReligionFood & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$123k86%
FY20242$80k50%
FY20237$81k14%
FY20226$62k0%
FY202111$75k36%
FY20209$50k22%
FY20198$56k38%
FY20188$60k38%
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What it funded, over time

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

Religion$221kYouth Development$163kHuman Services$118kEducation$55kHousing & Shelter$50kHealth$39kCommunity Improvement$20kPublic Benefit$17kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NV
SD
CA
NE
MO
AZ

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Lutheran Church$155,0004n/a
Lutheran Social Services of Nevada$82,00041%
Las Vegas Area Council Inc Boy Scouts of America$67,00012%
Family Promise of Las Vegas Inc$50,00011%
Spread the Word Nevada$45,00021%
Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc$37,00021%
Existence Church$35,1333n/a
Project 150$30,00021%
Henderson Community Foundation$20,00017%
PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc$20,000141%
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Lutheran Church$155,0004n/a
Lutheran Social Services of Nevada$82,00041%
Las Vegas Area Council Inc Boy Scouts of America$67,00012%
Family Promise of Las Vegas Inc$50,00011%
Spread the Word Nevada$45,00021%
Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc$37,00021%
Existence Church$35,1333n/a
Project 150$30,00021%
Henderson Community Foundation$20,00017%
PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc$20,000141%
American Legion$17,0001n/a
Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission Inc$11,10031%
California Lutheran University$9,80070%
Augustana University Association$9,00080%
Three Square$5,00010%
CaringBridge$1,00010%
National Lutheran Association on Scouting Inc$1,0001n/a

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLutheran Social Services of Nevada: $82,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLas Vegas Area Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $67,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFamily Promise of Las Vegas Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSpread the Word Nevada: $45,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc: $37,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetProject 150: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHenderson Community Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetPTA California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetNavajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission Inc: $11,100 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCalifornia Lutheran University: $9,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAugustana University Association: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThree Square: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Canarelli Family FoundationNV13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Canarelli Family Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation

How much does The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation give?
The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $123,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Youth Development (23%), Human Services (17%).
Who are The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Lutheran Church ($155k), Lutheran Social Services of Nevada ($82k), Las Vegas Area Council Inc Boy Scouts of America ($67k).
Does The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Canarelli Family Foundation, Wynn Resorts Foundation, United Way of Southern Nevada.
Where is The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation based?
The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation is based in NV.

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 27 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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