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The Lionel 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 $10k14 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $266k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $253k
- $250k+1 grant · $410k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $410,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $100,000 |
| UNLV FOUNDATION | $52,500 |
| JEWISH NEVADA | $50,000 |
| ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER | $39,000 |
| CONGREGATION NER TAMID | $32,000 |
| ADL | $25,000 |
| SOLID ROCK FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| SOLDIERS FOR THE SECOND COMING | $20,000 |
| CHABAD OF SOUTHERN NEVADA | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE | $10,000 |
| REMNANT MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 11 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
- SRSolid Rock Foundation Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +267%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $105k · revenue +68%
- SJST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- NANathan Adelson Hospice Incone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -29%
- KMKEEP MEMORY ALIVEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- VIVMSN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +230%
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 proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The mission of the mount sinai health system is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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 36 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 58 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 UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER ↗
- Who funds Solid Rock Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARMOND MORALES MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA DAY SCHOOL OF LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VMSN INC ↗
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: Mgm Resorts Foundation · Alan and Christy Molasky Charitable Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Marshall Family Philanthropic Fund · Susan G Fine Family Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Frieda & Leon Steinberg Charitable 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 Lionel 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.
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