Nevada · Private foundation
The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger 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.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 164
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $2.5M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $35k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $10M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $995k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $101k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $309k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $335k | 37% |
| FY2017 | 164 | $253k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation | $11,413,000 | 7 | 17% |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | $26,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Three Square | $24,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $20,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Heart Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Adams Place | $9,200 | 5 | 3% |
| The Animal Foundation | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alliance for Childhood Diseases | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Shade Tree Inc | $8,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 148 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 137 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Mgm Resorts Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Canarelli Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Engelstad Family Foundation · The Boyd Family Foundation · America's Charities · Speedway Children's Charities · Mondays Dark
How this is measured
Compare The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation with peer funders
About The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation
- How much does The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation give?
- The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $2,515,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 164 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (79%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Health (2%).
- Who are The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation ($11M), Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education ($26k), Three Square ($24k).
- Does The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger 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 Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mgm Resorts Foundation, Nevada Community Foundation Inc, NV Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation based?
- The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation is based in NV.
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