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Three Square

THREE SQUARE's mission is to provide wholesome food to hungry people, while passionately pursuing a hunger free community.

$80M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$558k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.3MHuman Services$2.1MFood & Nutrition$1.5MReligion$1.5MHealth$704kHousing & Shelter$248kEducation$105kArts & Culture$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $1,065,303, the rows itemized in this filing. The $80,253,507 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $79,188,204 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+2 grants · $903k
$12,180
Median grant
1
States reached
$178M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOODNESS GRACIOUS MINISTRIES: $3k → 13%GOODNESS GRACIOUS MINISTRIES: $1k → 13%SELF SUFFICIENCY INC: $5k → 13%SELF SUFFICIENCY INC: $1k → 13%HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $467k → 13%HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $268k → 13%HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $129k → 13%HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $96k → 13%HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $94k → 13%ALL SQUARED AWAY: $2k → 13%RESTORATION & RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA-NV: $2k → 13%PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA-NV: $2k → 13%RESTORATION & RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%PROJECT 150: $9k → 13%WESTCARE NEVADA: $4k → 13%PROJECT MARILYN: $2k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $50k → 13%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $47k → 13%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $27k → 13%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $13k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN: $10k → 13%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $6k → 13%EAST VALLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $162k → 13%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $6k → 13%EAST VALLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN: $5k → 13%EAST VALLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 13%EAST VALLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 13%EAST VALLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $13k → 13%CARIDAD INC: $10k → 13%GAY AND LESBIAN COM CTR: $2k → 13%CARIDAD INC: $2k → 13%SERVING OUR KIDS: $86k → 13%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT: $9k → 13%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT: $6k → 13%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT: $2k → 13%HELP OF SOUTHERN NV: $21k → 13%HELP OF SOUTHERN NV: $21k → 13%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $153k → 13%ACELERO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $22k → 13%ACELERO LEARNING HEAD START: $10k → 13%ACELERO LEARNING HEAD START: $5k → 13%ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY BOARD OF CLARK: $2k → 13%YOUTH ADVOCATE PROGRAM: $1k → 13%BROOKSGOODDEEDS: $17k → 13%BROOKSGOODDEEDS: $6k → 13%BROOKSGOODDEEDS: $4k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.2M · 114 repeat orgs$573k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

114
32

Total granted

$9.2M
$563k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+37%

Still filing today

43%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionFood & NutritionHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • TJ
    THE JUST ONE PROJECT
    8× · 2018–2025 · $3.2M · revenue ×21
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +263%
  • LC
    LIGHTHOUSE CHARITIES INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $696k · revenue ×25

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JUDE'S WOMEN'S AUXILIARY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $153k · revenue -96%
  • UP
    UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE USA
    2× · 2017–2019 · $140k
  • SO
    SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    5× · 2021–2025 · $86k · revenue +58%
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
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
2
Straight From the Streets

Provided food water and clothing to indigent citizens in the Las Vegas area

Human Services
3
Valley Mission Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Carson Valley Community Food Closet Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
5
Healthy Nevada
Health
6
Faith Wellness Services Incorporated

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

Health
7
Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada

To carry on charitable work in the field of religion, education, and social welfare within Northern Nevada.

Human Services
8
Central Valley Feed the Homeless

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
Nac Food Pantry Inc

Providing weekly food assistance

Food & Nutrition
10
The 29 Palms Community Food Pantry

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Saint Francis of Assisi Food Pantry

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.

Food & Nutrition
12
Angel Fire Department Las Vegas Nv

Community service

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada; 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.
04the grantee network

126 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. 126 of the 147 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/126
Grantees still filing
82/126
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JUST ONE PROJECT: $3,236,550 · PhilanthropyTHE JUST ONE PROJECT+2 more: $19,800 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL CHURCH OF LAS VEGAS: $267,054 · OtherINTERNATIONAL CHURCH OF LAS VEGA…TRUTH CHRISTIAN MINISTRIESINTERNATIONAL INC: $243,928 · OtherTRUTH CHRISTIAN MINISTRIESINTERN…SHARE- SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND RESOURCES FOR THE ELDERLY: $231,679 · OtherSHARE- SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND RE…NO GREATER LOVE WORSHIP CENTER: $176,312 · OtherNO GREATER LOVE WORSHIP CENTERST JUDE'S WOMEN'S AUXILIARY: $153,450 · OtherST JUDE'S WOMEN'S AUXILIARYFOUNDATION CHRISTIAN CENTER: $148,669 · OtherFOUNDATION CHRISTIAN CENTERUNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE USA: $140,237 · OtherASIAN COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $106,964 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $100,868 · Other+81 more: $1,196,558 · Other+81 moreHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $1,081,209 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS…EAST VALLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $265,879 · Human ServicesEAST VALLEY FAMILY SER…LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $155,230 · Human ServicesLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSI…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA: $99,719 · Human ServicesSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $86,399 · Human Services+19 more: $263,254 · Human Services+19 moreLIGHTHOUSE CHARITIES INC: $696,495 · Food & Nutrition+6 more: $43,357 · Food & NutritionDIGNITY HEALTH: $558,496 · HealthOLIVE CREST: $51,350 · HealthUMC FOUNDATION INC: $39,709 · HealthFIRSTMED HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER: $38,140 · Health+3 more: $9,121 · HealthCITY IMPACT FOUNDATION: $108,274 · Community ImprovementNYE COMMUNITIES COALITION: $23,100 · Community ImprovementASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $19,952 · Community Improvement+3 more: $11,643 · Community ImprovementCASA DE LUZ: $73,824 · ReligionNew Paradise Missionary Baptist Church: $35,649 · ReligionIGLESIA BERACA: $17,365 · ReligionST PAUL'S CHARISMATIC EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $13,797 · ReligionCENTRO DE ADORACION FAMILIAR CAF: $6,642 · Religion+5 more: $9,302 · Religion
Philanthropy$3,256,350Other$2,765,719Human Services$1,951,690Food & Nutrition$739,852Health$696,816Community Improvement$162,969Religion$156,579

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 budgetTHE JUST ONE PROJECT: $3,236,550 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY: $1,081,209 over 9y, 8.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CHARITIES INC: $696,495 over 7y, 23% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH: $558,496 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEAST VALLEY FAMILY SERVICES: $265,879 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetSHARE- SUPPORTIVE HOUSING AND RESOURCES FOR THE ELDERLY: $231,679 over 9y, 6.5% of budgetLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $155,230 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetCITY IMPACT FOUNDATION: $108,274 over 8y, 15% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY: $100,868 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA: $99,719 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $86,399 over 5y, 11% of budgetCASA DE LUZ: $73,824 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $64,860 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSANDY MESQUITE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $60,777 over 3y, 21% of budgetDesert Spring Community Resource Center: $56,480 over 3y, 17% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $51,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPELINK OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $44,507 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $42,050 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSAND LAKE BAPTIST CHURCH: $40,995 over 9y, 28% of budgetUMC FOUNDATION INC: $39,709 over 1y, 12% of budgetVIRGIN VALLEY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $39,336 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetFIRSTMED HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER: $38,140 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetACELERO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $37,697 over 8y, 43% of budgetNew Paradise Missionary Baptist Church: $35,649 over 7y, 13% of budgetNYE COMMUNITIES COALITION: $23,100 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $19,952 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $17,798 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIGLESIA BERACA: $17,365 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetNEVADA HAND INC: $16,113 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetST PAUL'S CHARISMATIC EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $13,797 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetCARIDAD INC: $11,550 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO RIVER FOOD BANK: $9,384 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetCELESTIAL MANNA INC: $9,077 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRESTORATION AND RECOVERY FOUNDATION: $7,387 over 7y, 7.5% of budgetSELF SUFFICIENCY INC: $6,311 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $5,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Person Care Clinic: $5,071 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS: $4,746 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEMERGENCY AID OF BOULDER CITY INC: $4,502 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetWESTCARE FOUNDATION INC: $4,359 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTREEHEAT MINISTRIES INC: $4,295 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetNEVADA PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $4,292 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAMARGOSA SENIORS INC: $4,112 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCOORDINATED LIVING OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $3,956 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGOODNESS GRACIOUS MINISTRIES INC: $3,850 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED LABOR AGENCY OF NEVADA INC: $3,687 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $3,623 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLAS VEGAS LEADING LADIES: $3,497 over 3y, 3.2% 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 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 ↗

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.

United Way of Souther…Mgm Resorts FoundationNV Energy Charitable …Nevada Community Foun…Canarelli Family Foun…Vegas Golden Knights …Wynn Resorts Foundati…Mondays DarkRaiders FoundationEngelstad Family Foun…Raiders Foundation NvThe Zions Bancorporat…
United Way of Southern NevadaNV75.4× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Three Square funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Three Square. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 147 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 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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