· Public charity
Three Square
THREE SQUARE's mission is to provide wholesome food to hungry people, while passionately pursuing a hunger free community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $1,065,303 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $80,253,507 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,188,204 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
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
- $250k+2 grants · $903k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPING HANDS OF HENDERSON | $558,060 |
| THE JUST ONE PROJECT | $345,307 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CHARITIES INC | $125,146 |
| JOY DIVINE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $12,180 |
| ASIAN COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $10,920 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY | $8,190 |
| BROOKSGOODDEEDS | $5,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
114 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 108 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- TJTHE JUST ONE PROJECT8× · 2018–2025 · $3.2M · revenue ×21
- HHHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +267%
- LCLIGHTHOUSE CHARITIES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $696k · revenue ×25
Funded once
- SJST JUDE'S WOMEN'S AUXILIARY3× · 2017–2019 · $153k · revenue -96%
- UPUNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE USA2× · 2017–2019 · $140k
- SOSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INCgraduated5× · 2021–2025 · $86k · revenue +58%
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.
The organizations mission is to alleviate food insecurity by providing supplemental food assistance to individuals and families in need. The organization receives monetary contributions used to purchase food and accepts donated food from…
Provided food water and clothing to indigent citizens in the Las Vegas area
Valley Mission currently operates a Food Pantry. New services offered in the new facility will inlcude an 18-bed emergency shelter, commercial kitchen/dining area, office space, medical clinic, 16-bed transformational living program (6…
To carry on charitable work in the field of religion, education, and social welfare within Northern Nevada.
Provide a safe space for homeless to be fed/do laundry/take showers and provide job search help and transportation to necessary appointments provede bus tickets for stranded people who come for drug treatment and have no resources to get…
It is the mission, duty and purpose of saint francis of assisi food pantry to address, educate, coordinate, and provide aid and relief to eradicate chronic malnutrition and hunger on a local level.
Emergency food and shelter program servicing approx 5,500 people in the 29 Palms area. Hours of operation are: mom-fri 9:30 to 11:30, 2nd and 4th Wed of each month 17:00 to 18:30, and 1st Sat each month 9:30 to 18:30.
To provide free food to homeless, veterans, and others
Providing weekly food assistance
F.A.I.T.H. WELLNESS SERVICES is a Nevada non-profit organization that has been formed with the goal of bringing together the most appropriate resources to help our local community regain our stride and become even strong
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Gilcrease Nature Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 7. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 41% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 24% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
125 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. 125 of the 147 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 THE JUST ONE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds EAST VALLEY FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SHARE- SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND RESOURCES FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE'S WOMEN'S AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds CITY IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA ↗
- Who funds SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA DE LUZ ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds SANDY MESQUITE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Desert Spring Community Resource Center ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds SAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds UMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGIN VALLEY FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FIRSTMED HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ACELERO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New Paradise Missionary Baptist Church ↗
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: United Way of Southern Nevada · Mgm Resorts Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Canarelli Family Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Mondays Dark · Raiders Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · Raiders Foundation Nv · The Zions Bancorporation 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 Three Square 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.
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.