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The Michael Connell Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$950
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$400
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$6kHuman Services$3kHousing & Shelter$2kYouth Development$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$900Crime & Legal$500Civil Rights$300Food & Nutrition$300Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
1
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIRACLE FLIGHTS$400
CLARK & PIKE PLLC$300
Individual grant recipient$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAKE A WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $500 → 13%MAKE A WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $500 → 13%MAKE A WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $400 → 13%MAKE A WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $300 → 13%MAKE A WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $300 → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONERS: $400 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13k · 10 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$13k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+196%

Still filing today

50%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MF
    MIRACLE FLIGHTS
    7× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +35%
  • MN
    MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +64%
  • TS
    THREE SQUARE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300 · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • HF
    HOPE FOR PRISONERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $400 · revenue +291%
  • HO
    HELP OF SO NV
    one grant, 2018 · $400
  • DR
    DESERT REIGN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $300
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

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.

Human Services
3
Las Vegas Rescue Mission

Through feeding the hungry, support, and care, we provide redemption, recovery, and re-entry to the homeless, addicted, and those in need.

Human Services
4
Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Communities in Schools of Nevada Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
Prevent Child Trafficking Nevada Dba Alliance for Child Protection

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.

Education
8
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Nv

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…

Unclassified
9
Children's Advocacy Center

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.

Human Services
10
City Help Inc of Phoenix

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.

Human Services
11
Kids Chance of Nevada

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.

Education
12
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIRACLE FLIGHTS: $2,900 · OtherMIRACLE FLIGHTSTHE SHADE TREE INC: $1,900 · OtherTHE SHADE TREE INCSALVATION ARMY: $1,450 · OtherSALVATION ARMYMAKE A WISH: $900 · OtherMAKE A WISHAMERICAN RED CROSS: $900 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSKEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $650 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVEIndividual grant recipient: $450 · OtherHELP OF SO NV: $400 · Other+2 more: $600 · Other+2 moreMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $2,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH NEVADAHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $400 · Human ServicesHOPE FOR PRISONERS…QUIET STORM FOUNDATION: $1,100 · EducationQUIET STO…Theta Phi Lambda Foundation: $200 · EducationTheta Phi…THREE SQUARE: $300 · Food & NutritionBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $300 · Youth DevelopmentPATRICK KELLEY YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $200 · PhilanthropyLEAD INC: $200 · HealthASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $200 · Animals
Other$10,150Human Services$2,400Education$1,300Food & Nutrition$300Youth Development$300Philanthropy$200Health$200Animals$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMIRACLE FLIGHTS: $2,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC: $1,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQUIET STORM FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTheta Phi Lambda Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEAD INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Boyd Family Found…Brenden Mann Foundati…Wynn Resorts Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Enterprise Holdings F…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Boyd Family FoundationNV13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Michael Connell Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael Connell Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Lead Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Michael Connell Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Michael Connell Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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