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The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation at a glance

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The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation

$342k
Granted FY2018
26
Grants FY2018
12
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Arts & Culture$110kEducation$105kRecreation & Sports$89kHousing & Shelter$80kHealth$77kHuman Services$64kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2018 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k15 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHINGTON CITY MISSION$75,000
METONIA INC$50,000
MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$30,000
HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE$25,000
LEMAY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER$25,000
GLOBAL GAMING WOMEN$25,000
VICKSBURG WARREN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$10,000
FOODBANK OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA$10,000
DISTINCTIVE SCHOOLS INC$10,000
CINCINNATI PRIDE INC$10,000
MID-EAST AREA AGENCY ON AGING (MEALS ON WHEELS)$10,000
NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL$7,500
UNITED CITIZENS FOUNDATION$5,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$5,000
100 BLACK MEN OF BATON ROUGE$5,000
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 (FY17–18, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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%LEMAY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER: $25k → 11%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $75k → 12%LEMAY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER: $25k → 11%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5k → 13%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5k → 13%GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTH NEVADA: $3k → 13%UNITED CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NV
IN
OH
PA
UT
MO
KY
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$335k · 11 repeat orgs$350k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$335k
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+155%

Still filing today

73%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MI
    METANOIA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +101%
  • MS
    MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $70k · revenue +70%
  • CP
    CINCINNATI PRIDE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +177%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS (HARVEY RELIEF)
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • PF
    PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • ND
    NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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
Special Olympics Louisiana Inc

The mission of special olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for all children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to…

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2
Special Olympics Mississippi Inc

The mission of special olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop…

Recreation & Sports
3
Food Outreach Inc

To provide nutritional support and enhance the quality of life of men, women, and children living with hiv/aids or cancer

Food & Nutrition
4
Special Olympics Missouri Inc

Through year-round sports and training, individuals with intellectual disabilities are given the chance to gain confidence, seek opportunities to improve their physical fitness, demonstrate pride, and participate in their communities.

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5
St Louis Learning Disabilities Association

To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.

Human Services
6
Goodwill Industries of Southern Nevada

Goodwill industries of southern nevada provides education, employment, training and workforce development services that increase the likelihood clients will be placed into employment and to maximize clients' economic independence.

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7
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
8
Midwest Special Services Inc

The mission of mss, inc. is to support people with disabilities as vital and contributing members of the community. we envision a future where people are supported in living the life that they choose, rather than one chosen for them. we…

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9
Family Advocacy and Community Training Inc

Enhance the opportunities and quality of life for children and youth with disabilities. the organization achieves this objective through parent training, emotional support, direct advocacy, community education, self-advocacy and navigation…

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10
Independent Case Management Inc

Icm provides various support services to individuals with developmental disabilities so they can remain in their community of choice with an enhanced quality of life.

Human Services
11
A Child's Wish of Louisiana Inc

To grant wishes to and otherwise act for the benefit of children suffering from terminal or life theatening illness or disease.

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12
Kids Win Missouri

Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
21/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLOBAL GAMING WOMEN: $50,000 · OtherGLOBAL GAMING WOMENAMERICAN RED CROSS (HARVEY RELIEF): $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS (HARVEY RELIEF)HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE: $25,000 · OtherHUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTEPRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherPRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME FOUNDATIONNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL ST LOUIS: $15,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL ST LOUISTHE MEL BLOUNT YOUTH HOME: $11,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS OF MISSOURI: $10,000 · OtherVICKSBURG-WARREN CO CHAMBER OF COM: $10,000 · OtherMID-EAST AREA AGENCY ON AGING (MEALS ON WHEELS): $10,000 · OtherETHEL PRECHT HOPE BREAST CANCER: $10,000 · Other+13 more: $65,000 · Other+13 moreWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $75,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON CITY MISSIONLEMAY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesLEMAY CHILD AND FAMILY CEN…CINCINNATI PRIDE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI PRIDE INCMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $10,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA+2 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesMETANOIA INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMETANOIA INCTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL WORLD…MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationMCNEESE STATE…Distinctive Schools of Illinois: $10,000 · EducationDistinctive S…FOOD HELPERS: $15,000 · Food & NutritionNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $10,000 · Food & NutritionVMSN INC: $10,000 · HealthGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $6,000 · HealthFamily and Youth Counseling Agency Inc: $5,000 · HealthPERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$276,000Human Services$162,500Arts & Culture$110,000Education$80,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Health$21,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETANOIA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEMAY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCINCINNATI PRIDE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetFOOD HELPERS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVICKSBURG-WARREN CO CHAMBER OF COM: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVMSN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS IDAHO INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFamily and Youth Counseling Agency Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER - ST LOUIS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA MIRACLE MINDS THERAPY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF IDAHO: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS KENTUCKY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Wynn Resorts Foundati…NV Energy Charitable …Enterprise Holdings F…Canarelli Family Foun…Vegas Golden Knights …Engelstad Family Foun…United Way of Souther…Nevada Community Foun…Mgm Resorts FoundationThe Gap FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…
Wynn Resorts FoundationNV15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wynn Resorts Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Engelstad Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · The Gap Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Pinnacle Entertainment Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Pinnacle Entertainment 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 39 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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