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The Shuster Family 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.

$132k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$724kReligion$457kHuman Services$57kPhilanthropy$56kHealth$53kFood & Nutrition$19kYouth Development$17kInternational$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$33,750
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$20,000
TEMPLE BAT YAHM$20,000
TEMPLE BETH SHOLOM$18,300
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$6,000
TYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION$5,000
STANFORD L KURLAND RESEARCH FUND$5,000
THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS$3,000
NELLIS SUPPORT TEAM$2,500
GIVE - MENTOR - LOVE$2,500
USHMM$2,000
JEWISH NEVADA$1,750
LA AIRPORT TEAM LAX$1,000
THE JUST ONE PROJECT$500
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 (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 14%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $100 → 7%UNITED IN HARMONY: $3k → 14%MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $50 → 7%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%HERITAGE POINTE: $3k → 10%VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 14%HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $3k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE FDN: $100 → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONERS: $1k → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $775 → 13%GIVE MENTOR LOVE FDN: $500 → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS: $3k → 13%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS: $2k → 13%THE CUPCAKE GIRLS: $250 → 13%NEVADA BLIND CHILDREN'S FDN: $500 → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $750 → 13%ST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $750 → 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

IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IA
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
HI
OK
AL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$705k · 52 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
82

Total granted

$705k
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+25%

Still filing today

73%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 ServicesHealthInternationalEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • Southern Methodist University
    4× · 2021–2025 · $80k · revenue +18%
  • TJ
    THE JUST ONE PROJECT
    3× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +84%
  • TR
    TYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +79%
  • TH
    THE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION)
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +17%
  • TV
    TARBUT V'TORAH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +53%
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
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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5
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
12
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Barkmerica. 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

99 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. 99 of the 145 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/99
Grantees still filing
74/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $575,550 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIASouthern Methodist University: $80,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist University+6 more: $39,500 · Education+6 moreTEMPLE BAT YAHM: $438,000 · OtherTEMPLE BAT YAHMJEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER: $27,125 · OtherMATER DEI HIGH SCHOOL ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ORANGE: $22,500 · OtherGIVE - MENTOR - LOVE: $22,000 · Other+88 more: $142,410 · Other+88 moreVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $7,000 · Human ServicesLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $5,525 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesUNITED IN HARMONY: $2,500 · Human ServicesHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $2,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY: $2,500 · Human ServicesST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesMAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Human ServicesHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $1,250 · Human Services+7 more: $2,145 · Human ServicesTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $9,250 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,125 · HealthTHE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION): $5,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR RECOVERY INC: $2,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,375 · HealthCHASE RAUCHLE PTSD NOW: $1,750 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,250 · Health+6 more: $2,150 · HealthTHE JUST ONE PROJECT: $17,750 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $2,500 · PhilanthropyBarkmerica: $1,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $1,100 · PhilanthropySECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionTHREE SQUARE: $5,750 · Food & NutritionCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $1,425 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $1,025 · Arts & CultureThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $300 · Arts & Culture
Education$695,050Other$652,035Human Services$33,920Health$31,900Philanthropy$22,350Food & Nutrition$15,750Arts & Culture$13,250

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $575,550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER: $27,125 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUST ONE PROJECT: $17,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION: $9,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $8,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTheta Phi Lambda Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $5,525 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION): $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTARBUT V'TORAH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHollywood Schoolhouse Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBAL GRINS: $4,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSHERIFFS YOUTH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNELLIS SUPPORT TEAM: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED IN HARMONY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING OF ORANGE COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR RECOVERY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $1,768 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHASE RAUCHLE PTSD NOW: $1,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOARDRIDERS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAMBA & MAMBACITA SPORTS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,470 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $1,425 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $1,025 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAS VEGAS AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarkmerica: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRosemary Children's Services: $1,000 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.

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 Gordon FoundationNV Energy Charitable …Wynn Resorts Foundati…Nevada Community Foun…Mgm Resorts FoundationEngelstad Family Foun…Vegas Golden Knights …Canarelli Family Foun…United Way of Souther…Ufc FoundationElaine P Wynn and Fam…Mondays Dark
The Gordon FoundationNV64.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gordon Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Canarelli Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Ufc Foundation · Elaine P Wynn and Family Foundation Bt · Mondays Dark

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 145 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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