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Ufc Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$838k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$340kHuman Services$211kRecreation & Sports$188kEducation$156kEnvironment$155kYouth Development$127kPhilanthropy$64kHousing & Shelter$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $401k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$197k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
4OCEAN FOUNDATION$150,000
FOLDS OF HONOR$75,000
MAKE-A-WISH OF SOUTHERN NEVADA$50,000
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION$50,000
HOMEAID HAWAI'I$28,170
CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION$25,000
LAS VEGAS GLOBAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE$25,000
WRESTLE LIKE A GIRL$25,000
MAXX CROSBY FOUNDATION$25,000
MUHAMMAD ALI FOUNDATION$25,000
COACHING CHARITIES$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
UNLV FOUNDATION$22,500
AOKI FOUNDATION$20,000
CURE 4 THE KIDS FOUNDATION$15,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $99k) 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%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $3k → 16%US VETS: $5k → 14%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS NEVADA: $15k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS NEVADA: $10k → 13%HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 13%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL OF NEVADA: $5k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS: $5k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS: $1k → 13%YMCA SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10k → 13%NEVADA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $4k → 13%BOYSTOWN NEVADA: $5k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $2k → 13%ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN: $15k → 13%BABY'S BOUNTY: $5k → 13%BABY'S BOUNTY: $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

MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
NJ
CT
RI
CA
NE
KY
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
FL
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$598k · 24 repeat orgs$959k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
39

Total granted

$598k
$415k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

50%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $543k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther
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

  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES
    3× · 2022–2025 · $49k · revenue +70%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $32k · revenue +68%
  • CF
    CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $31k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BOB & RITA MARLEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $57k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII
    one grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue +2%
  • NA
    NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE
    one grant, 2023 · $32k
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.

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Healthy Nevada
Health
2
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
3
Nevada Veterans Foundation

Nevada veterans foundation's mission is to help improve quality of life for members of the military, military retirees, veterans and their families in the state of nevada.

Public Benefit
4
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
5
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
6
Our Nevada Judges Inc
Education
7
Jobs for Nevadas Graduates Inc

Jobs for nevadas graduates has a mission to empower young people with the skills and support to succeed in education, employment, and life.

Education
8
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
9
Nevada Children's Foundation Inc

To support programs providing the highest quality service to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. these services include a residential program at eagle valley children's home and a respite program provided in the…

Human Services
10
Unlv Research Foundation

The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…

Science & Tech
11
Kids Chance of Nevada

Kids Chance of Nevada provides college and technical scholarships to the children of parents who have been killed or severely injured in a workplace accident in Nevada.

Education
12
Henderson Silver Knights Foundation Inc

The henderson silver knights foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that serves as the primary charitable link between the ahl team and the las vegas community.through our namesake foundation, the henderson silver knights support las vegas…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southern Nevada; the most unlike its peers is Aoki Foundation. 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

50 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. 50 of the 97 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
15/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

4OCEAN FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Other4OCEAN FOUNDATIONMAKE-A-WISH OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $100,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH OF SOUTHERN NEVADATHE BOB & RITA MARLEY FOUNDATION: $57,412 · OtherTHE BOB & RITA MARLEY FOUNDATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $41,696 · OtherNELLIS AIR FORCE BASE: $32,409 · OtherWrestle Like a Girl Inc: $50,000 · Other+54 more: $517,055 · Other+54 moreALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES: $48,580 · HealthALLIANCE FOR…MAXX CROSBY FOUNDATION: $32,800 · HealthMAXX CROSBY …CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER: $31,000 · HealthCANDLELIGHTE…HUNTER SEVEN FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthHUNTER SEVEN…Children's Hospital Corporation: $20,500 · HealthChildren's H…Grant A Gift Autism Foundation: $10,000 · HealthGrant A Gift…+2 more: $6,500 · HealthFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationFOLDS OF …UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $32,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…ZO'S BRAVEHEARTS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationZO'S BRAV…+1 more: $512 · EducationTHE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST: $25,000 · PhilanthropyVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · PhilanthropyAOKI FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JUST ONE PROJECT: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GOOD FIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGENTLEMANS LEAGUE: $5,000 · PhilanthropyLAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE FUND: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesST JUDES RANCH FOR CHILDREN INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesBABY'S BOUNTY: $10,000 · Human ServicesHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $5,000 · Human ServicesBoys Town Nevada Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesNEVADA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Human Services+2 more: $4,350 · Human ServicesHomeAid Hawaii: $28,170 · Housing & ShelterJARED ALLENS HOMES FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterEDWARD KLINE MEM HOMELESS VETERANS FUND INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON INC: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$948,572Health$174,380Education$132,512Philanthropy$113,500Human Services$98,850Housing & Shelter$55,670Youth Development$55,000

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 budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWrestle Like a Girl Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES: $48,580 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII: $41,696 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAXX CROSBY FOUNDATION: $32,800 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER: $31,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIGHTING FOR THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetLAS VEGAS GLOBAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SPECIAL FORCES CHARITABLE TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJARED ALLENS HOMES FOR WOUNDED WARRIORS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetZO'S BRAVEHEARTS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetHUNTER SEVEN FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $20,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUST ONE PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLas Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBABY'S BOUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LAS VEGAS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLER DREAM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys Town Nevada Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDWARD KLINE MEM HOMELESS VETERANS FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $1,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ability Center of Southern Nevada Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHENDERSON FIREFIGHTERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChicago Bulls Charities: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNJ LEEP Inc: $512 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.

NV Energy Charitable …Canarelli Family Foun…Mgm Resorts FoundationWynn Resorts Foundati…Vegas Golden Knights …Nevada Community Foun…Engelstad Family Foun…United Way of Souther…Raiders Foundation NvThe Boyd Family Found…The Shuster Family Fo…Raiders Foundation
NV Energy Charitable FoundationNV37.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Engelstad Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Raiders Foundation Nv · The Boyd Family Foundation · The Shuster Family Foundation · Raiders 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 Ufc Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ufc Foundation. 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 →median 34%
  • Covenant House New Jersey Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ufc Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ufc 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 97 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home