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The Michael Connell Charitable 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIRACLE FLIGHTS | $400 |
| CLARK & PIKE PLLC | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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 (FY18–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 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
- MFMIRACLE FLIGHTS7× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +35%
- MNMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +64%
- TSTHREE SQUARE2× · 2023–2024 · $300 · revenue +13%
Funded once
- HOHELP OF SO NVone grant, 2018 · $400
- HFHOPE FOR PRISONERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $400 · revenue +291%
- DRDESERT REIGN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $300
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.
Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.
Through feeding the hungry, support, and care, we provide redemption, recovery, and re-entry to the homeless, addicted, and those in need.
The organization provides wraparound services to meet homeless youths' immediate, emergency needs and help them transition to long-term self- sufficiency. the organization's support comes primarily from government grants and corporate…
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…
Habitat for humanity las vegas, inc. (habitat) a not-for-profit organization located in las vegas, nevada was established in 1990. habitat's purpose is to build low cost houses with the help of the homeowner families, which are transferred…
Our mission is to prevent child trafficking by empowering young people to protect themselves and by educating and engaging the community to recognize the signs and to take safe and responsible action.
Our mission is to be an innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless dogs and cats, primarily through their rescue and placement in forever loving homes and by promoting spaying and neutering to control pet…
Our mission is to help and heal children and their families who have been traumatized by abuse and neglect. because every child deserves a voice, we provide vital services when they need it the most.
Our mission is to reach in and mine the incredible potential we believe lies within the lives of at-risk youth, the homeless, and needy families of our community by restoring hope and allowing them to dream again.
Kids Chance of Nevada provides college and technical scholarships to the children of parents who have been killed or severely injured in a workplace accident in Nevada.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Theta Phi Lambda Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THE SHADE TREE INC ↗
- Who funds QUIET STORM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR PRISONERS INC ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Theta Phi Lambda Foundation ↗
- Who funds PATRICK KELLEY YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY 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: The Boyd Family Foundation · Brenden Mann Foundation Co Dorsey & Whitney · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Michael Connell Charitable 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.
- Lead Inc — 2% of income from government
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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