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Nevada · Private foundation

Victor & Betty Cavdek Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$222k
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
11
Organizations funded FY2023
18%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$11,090
Largest grant, FY2023
$44,360
Organizations funded a year
11 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
8
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Victor & Betty Cavdek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202311$222k18%
FY202211$8k18%
FY202111$17k27%
FY202011$17k0%
FY201911$17k0%
FY201811$17k18%
FY201711$17kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$166kAnimals$69kPublic Benefit$36kHuman Services$17kHousing & Shelter$12kCommunity Improvement$11kPhilanthropy$500Food & Nutrition$500Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NV
CT
CA
UT
DE
AZ
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Three Angels Broadcasting Network Inc$46,36050%
Amazing Facts International$44,36010%
Carter Report Inc$44,3601n/a
Friends of Animals Inc$14,09070%
Humane Farming Association$13,59060%
Animals in Distress Association Inc$13,59065%
Best Friends Animal Society$13,09050%
Animal Welfare Institute$13,09050%
Las Vegas Rescue Mission$11,59020%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Victor & Betty Cavdek Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThree Angels Broadcasting Network Inc: $46,360 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAmazing Facts International: $44,360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Animals Inc: $14,090 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHumane Farming Association: $13,590 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAnimals in Distress Association Inc: $13,590 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $13,090 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Welfare Institute: $13,090 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLas Vegas Rescue Mission: $11,590 over 2y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Victor & Betty Cavdek Foundation

How much does Victor & Betty Cavdek Foundation give?
Victor & Betty Cavdek Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $221,800 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Victor & Betty Cavdek Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (53%), Animals (22%), Public Benefit (12%).
Who are Victor & Betty Cavdek Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Three Angels Broadcasting Network Inc ($46k), Amazing Facts International ($44k), Carter Report Inc ($44k).
Does Victor & Betty Cavdek Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Victor & Betty Cavdek Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Victor & Betty Cavdek Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Victor & Betty Cavdek Foundation based?
Victor & Betty Cavdek Foundation is based in NV.

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 20 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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