· Public charity
Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc
The vegas golden knights foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that serves as the primary charitable link between the nhl team and the las vegas community.through our namesake foundation, the vegas golden knights support las vegas non-profits that make a difference every day via direct grants and fundraising partnerships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 57 grants below total $1,666,167 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,823,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $157,333 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $597k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEST BUDDIES OF NV | $141,500 |
| CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $125,000 |
| FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION | $118,549 |
| VEGAS JUNIOR GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC | $102,768 |
| HENDERSON SILVER KNIGHTS FOUNDATION | $100,500 |
| BEHIND THE BLUE | $100,000 |
| VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS - LIL KNIGHTS | $100,000 |
| OLYMPIA COMPANIES SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| THE SHADE TREE | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| VETERAN COALITION INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| NEVADA DONOR NETWORK FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PROJECT 150 | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $880k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $694k 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
- TFTHE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +67%
- VJVEGAS JUNIOR GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $477k · revenue +77%
Best Buddies International Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $296k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- LRLEVY RESTAURANTSone grant, 2020 · $199k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADAone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +2%
- TETFC ENTERPRISES INCone grant, 2023 · $138k
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 nevada council on problem gambling is a non-profit information and referral agency whose efforts are focused on reducing the impact of problem gambling on individuals, families and communities in nevada. it is the mission of the nevada…
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…
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.
To foster strategic alliances in the health care community, collaborating on workforce issues and being a proactive force for legislative initiatives to improve access and the delivery of health care in southern nevada.
To solicit applications for americorps funding and to support the volunteer infrastructure in nevada.
Our mission is to prevent child trafficking by empowering young people to protect themselves and by educating and engaging the community to recognize the signs and to take safe and responsible action.
Nevada child seekers mission is to advocate for and engage in prevention, identification and location efforts on behalf of missing and exploited children.
Champions for casa is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works in partnership with the casa las vegas program to recruit, retain, and recognize casa volunteers. we were established with the vision of ensuring every child in foster…
The mgm resorts foundation brings the best of our employee volunteer and charitable efforts together with greater impact and greater choice. the mgm resorts foundation focuses employee charitable contributions to non-profit agencies and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Asian Chamber of Commerce Foundtion. 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 21 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
129 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. 129 of the 178 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 FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Las Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation ↗
- Who funds VEGAS JUNIOR GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds NEVADA DONOR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIA COMPANIES SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Grant A Gift Autism Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES ↗
- Who funds CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER ↗
- Who funds THE SHADE TREE INC ↗
- Who funds HENDERSON SILVER KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA ↗
- Who funds BEHIND THE BLUE ↗
- Who funds MAXIMUM HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA ↗
- Who funds TOURO UNIVERSITY NEVADA ↗
- Who funds VMSN INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds VEGAS GOLDEN CHARIOTS YOUTH SLED HOCKEY ↗
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: Mgm Resorts Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Wynn Resorts Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Canarelli Family Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · Raiders Foundation · Raiders Foundation Nv · Mondays Dark · The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation · Three Square
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 Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc 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.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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