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The Moonridge Foundation

To promote and enhance philanthropy, volunteerism, and community involvement.

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Public Safety & Disaster$761kHuman Services$394kHealth$394kEnvironment$292kPhilanthropy$266kEducation$175kArts & Culture$160kHousing & Shelter$151kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $191,550 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $211,073 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,523 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$26,550
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM$150,000
CRISTO REY ST VIATOR LAS VEGAS WORK$26,550
NEVADA MEDICAL CENTER$15,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $570k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 10%SHOES THAT FIT: $20k → 14%YAMBA MALAWI: $20k → 17%SOLES 4 SOULS INC: $24k → 14%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $20k → 17%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA: $9k → 13%SHINE A LIGHT: $125k → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $6k → 13%FOSTER KINSHIP: $142k → 13%THE CUPCAKE GIRLS: $45k → 13%THE CUPCAKE GIRLS: $35k → 13%GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF: $50k → 13%PROJECT MARILYN: $50k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
NY
NV
NJ
CA
UT
TN
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

14%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$381k · 4 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +183% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
38

Total granted

$381k
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+183%
+13%

Still filing today

75%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k 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 ServicesPhilanthropyHealthAnimalsEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • CC
    CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    3× · 2017–2020 · $135k
  • NM
    NEVADA MEDICAL CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue -52% · 41% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CUPCAKE GIRLS
    2× · 2019–2020 · $80k · revenue +183%

Funded once

  • LV
    LAS VEGAS VICTIMS' FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $761k
  • GO
    GREEN OUR PLANET
    one grant, 2022 · $164k · revenue -54%
  • FK
    FOSTER KINSHIPgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $142k · revenue +56%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Nevada Child Seekers

Nevada child seekers mission is to advocate for and engage in prevention, identification and location efforts on behalf of missing and exploited children.

Crime & Legal
2
Safe Nest Foundation

Safe nest foundation, inc. was created as a supporting organization to support the important work of safe nest; temporary assistance for domestic crisis, inc., a nevada domestic non-profit corporation ("safe nest"). in furtherance of safe…

Philanthropy
3
Healthy Nevada
Health
4
Champions for Casa

Champions for casa is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works in partnership with the casa las vegas program to recruit, retain, and recognize casa volunteers. we were established with the vision of ensuring every child in foster…

Human Services
5
Nevada Kids Foundation Inc

The nevada kids foundation is a children's non profit that provides essential items and resources to the struggling youth in our communities. our goal is to empower children to live a life with greater hope, freedom, and opportunities for…

Human Services
6
For Kids Foundation

The purpose of this corporation is to serve needy children by obtaining funding for medical, dental, mental health, and other necessary services which are otherwise unavailable, without discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex,…

Health
7
Mgm Resorts Foundation

The mgm resorts foundation brings the best of our employee volunteer and charitable efforts together with greater impact and greater choice. the mgm resorts foundation focuses employee charitable contributions to non-profit agencies and…

Philanthropy
8
Mayor's Fund for Las Vegas Life

To advance the quality of life for residents of the city of las vegas by bringing together private-public partnerships to address the city's most pressing needs through collaborative and transformational problem solving.

Public Benefit
9
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
10
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
11
Northern Nevada Children's Cancer Foundation

The foundation's mission is to enhance the quality of life for children with cancer and their families by providing financial assistance and compassionate support programs while advocating for increased research funds and raising public…

Philanthropy
12
Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation

To provide social, emotional, educational, and psychological support and programs to families of all children diagnosed with life threatening or critical illnesses and provide healing arts and wellness programs to adults touched by cancer…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Las Vegas Victims' Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr15%16%5–10yr20%38%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr12%11%35–55yr11%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%15%5–10yr20%49%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr12%5%35–55yr11%5%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/47
the rest of the field
14%
5,457/38,705

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.

04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 47 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
27/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LAS VEGAS VICTIMS' FUND — $761,336 · OtherLAS VEGAS VICTIMS' FUNDCLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT — $135,150 · OtherCLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTHEROES UNITED INC — $82,593 · OtherHEROES UNITED INCNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $59,679 · Other+16 more — $313,870 · Other+16 moreFOSTER KINSHIP — $142,000 · Human ServicesFOSTER KINSHIPSHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Human ServicesSHINE A LIGHT FOUNDAT…THE CUPCAKE GIRLS — $80,396 · Human ServicesTHE CUPCAKE GIRLSProject Marilyn Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesProject Marilyn IncGAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $50,000 · Human ServicesGAY & LESBIAN COMMUNI…Nathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesSOLES4SOULS INC — $24,240 · Human ServicesYAMBA MALAWI INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSHOES THAT FIT — $19,650 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $19,650 · Human Services+2 more — $14,525 · Human ServicesNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $156,100 · PhilanthropyNEVADA COMMU…BORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION — $70,000 · PhilanthropyBORN THIS WA…MONDAYS DARK — $35,000 · PhilanthropyMONDAYS DARKVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 · PhilanthropyVEGAS GOLDEN…GOODIE TWO SHOES FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyGOODIE TWO S…ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY — $14,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $8,075 · PhilanthropyNEVADA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $95,500 · HealthNEVADA MED…UMC FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 · HealthUMC FOUNDA…TYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION — $60,000 · HealthTYLER ROBI…OLIVE CREST — $14,988 · HealthOLIVE CRES…GREEN OUR PLANET — $164,350 · EnvironmentLAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM — $150,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION TO ASSIST YOUNG MUSICIAN — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOne Drop Foundation Inc — $128,131 · International
Other$1,352,628Human Services$570,461Philanthropy$336,175Health$265,488Environment$164,350Arts & Culture$160,000International$128,131

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREEN OUR PLANET — $164,350 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $156,100 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFOSTER KINSHIP — $142,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetOne Drop Foundation Inc — $128,131 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSHINE A LIGHT FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetNEVADA MEDICAL CENTER INC — $95,500 over 6y, 41% of budgetUMC FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE CUPCAKE GIRLS — $80,396 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetBORN THIS WAY FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $59,679 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Marilyn Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetGAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMONDAYS DARK — $35,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetRUNWAY OF DREAMS FOUNDATION — $30,860 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $30,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA FOUNDATION — $28,820 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCristo Rey St Viator Las Vegas Work Study — $26,550 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGOODIE TWO SHOES FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION — $24,240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INC — $24,240 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOLES4SOULS INC — $24,240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SOUTHERN NEVADA — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYAMBA MALAWI INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSHOES THAT FIT — $19,650 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $19,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $19,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAIDERS FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOLIVE CREST — $14,988 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY — $14,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLas Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation — $14,150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION TO ASSIST YOUNG MUSICIAN — $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC — $9,025 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JUST ONE PROJECT — $8,075 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Wynn Resorts Foundati…Nevada Community Foun…Vegas Golden Knights …NV Energy Charitable …Mgm Resorts FoundationEngelstad Family Foun…United Way of Souther…Canarelli Family Foun…Mondays DarkThe John C Kish Found…The Boyd Family Found…Three Square
Wynn Resorts FoundationNV43× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wynn Resorts Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Canarelli Family Foundation · Mondays Dark · The John C Kish Foundation · The Boyd Family Foundation · Three Square

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 Moonridge 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Moonridge Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Moonridge 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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