· Public charity
Wynn Resorts Foundation
The Wynn Resorts Foundation raises funds from employees and community members to foster volunteerism giving back where it helps most - home.
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 $1,484,866 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,961,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $476,634 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 $10k21 grants · $149k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $543k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $793k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| amfAR The Foundation for AIDS Research | $195,000 |
| Nevada Ballet Theatre | $117,166 |
| Grant a Gift Autism Foundation | $101,555 |
| St Jude Children's Hospital | $90,965 |
| Three Square | $65,346 |
| The Smith Center For The Performing Arts | $60,559 |
| Tyler Robinson Foundation | $56,800 |
| Raiders Foundation | $55,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada | $50,290 |
| Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevad | $38,096 |
| Clark County School District | $37,706 |
| Leukemia and Lymphoma Society | $34,856 |
| Olive Crest | $32,130 |
| Animal Foundation | $31,352 |
| The Las Vegas Philharmonic | $30,041 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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 +30% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 14 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $414k 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
- GAGrant A Gift Autism Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $418k · revenue +551%
- TSThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts5× · 2019–2024 · $415k · revenue +3%
- NBNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $357k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- RHRenown Health Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +251%
- APADAMS PLACEone grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue +7%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR AN INDEPENDENT TOMORROWgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +104%
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.
Nevada child seekers mission is to advocate for and engage in prevention, identification and location efforts on behalf of missing and exploited children.
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…
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
The children's advocacy alliance is an independent voice for nevada's children, advancing systemic change in the areas of early childhood education, children's health, and child welfare. we achieve public policy wins through collaboration…
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…
To keep children safe and families together by providing services and resources that address unmet needs through a unique and effective cooperative effort between the private sector and public agencies in nevada.
New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.
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…
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…
Our mission is to help and heal children and their families who have been traumatized by abuse and neglect. because every child deserves a voice, we provide vital services when they need it the most.
Our mission is to be an innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless dogs and cats, primarily through their rescue and placement in forever loving homes and by promoting spaying and neutering to control pet…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Project Dot. 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
133 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. 133 of the 143 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 Grant A Gift Autism Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Smith Center for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds NEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THE SHADE TREE INC ↗
- Who funds GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Renown Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds TYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LAS VEGAS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE NESTTEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS ↗
- Who funds MONEY MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Las Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation ↗
- Who funds RAIDERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAS VEGAS INNER CITY GAMES ↗
- Who funds NEVADA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRYEBURG ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMS PLACE ↗
- Who funds NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GAMING WOMEN CHARITABLE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds Whittemore Peterson Institute ↗
- Who funds A HOME 4 SPOT ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
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: Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Canarelli Family Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Engelstad Family Foundation · Mondays Dark · Speedway Children's Charities · The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation · The Moonridge Foundation · Raiders Foundation Nv
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 Wynn Resorts Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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