· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| AUGUSTANA UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| PACIFIC LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| TAPPS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in NV; by stated purpose, 71%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jerry D Routh & Cheryl Sawatzke Routh Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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