· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k5 grants · $6k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAS VEGAS AREA COUNCIL | $67,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SO NV | $50,000 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH CROFTON | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL LUTHERAN ASSOC ON SCOUTING | $1,000 |
| TAPPS | $1,000 |
| AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| PACIFIC LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in NV; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +79% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA4× · 2018–2022 · $82k · revenue +89%
- STSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA2× · 2021–2023 · $45k · revenue +132%
- NANathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc2× · 2019–2022 · $37k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF LAS VEGAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +52%
- HCHENDERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -51%
- PCPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · 41% of their budget
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.
To provide high quality academics to k-5 students
Legacy Visiting Nurse Association (LVNA) provides palliative care to terminally ill patients and supportive services to patients, their families, and significant others, through an outpatient hospice program. The home hospice program…
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
The primary purpose of loma linda university health(lluh) is to help coordinate the healing ministry of the seventh-day adventist church. this function is accomplished by managing the various schools and hospitals of lluh's core and…
To participate in christ's ministry of health, healing, and wholeness for: education, healthcare, and research by providing support to the lluh entities.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
To provide leadership and support to members assisting them to advance both professional and community interests in long term care facilities.
Loma linda university, a seventh-day adventist christian health sciences institution, seeks to further the healing and teaching ministry of jesus christ "to make man whole" by: - educating ethical and proficient christian health…
To carry on charitable work in the field of religion, education, and social welfare within Northern Nevada.
Point loma nazarene university exists to provide higher education in a vital christian community where minds are engaged and challenged, character is modeled and formed, and service becomes an expression of faith. we aspire to be a…
Communities in schools of nevada, inc. (the organization) was originally established in 1992 as cities of schools of las vegas, but remained relatively dormant until 2003 when it reestablished its mission to coincide with the national…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Las Vegas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pta California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA ↗
- Who funds LAS VEGAS AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LAS VEGAS INC ↗
- Who funds SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 150 ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS INC ↗
- Who funds Navajo Evangelical Lutheran Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
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: 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
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 Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh 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.