About Cashman Family Foundation
The Cashman Family Foundation focuses on large, general‑operating gifts to regional civic, cultural, and youth education organizations, with a strong concentration in Southern Nevada. They favor established local institutions—museums, history/preservation groups, youth entrepreneurship programs, community workforce/collaboration efforts—and also support faith‑based organizations. Grants are typically unrestricted donations intended to sustain core operations rather than project‑specific funding.
Focus Areas
Youth financial literacy and entrepreneurship programs (e.g., Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada)Regional visual arts and museum support (e.g., Nevada Museum of Art)Historic preservation and regional history institutions (e.g., Montana History Foundation, Friends of the Nevada Mansion)Local community collaboration and workforce development initiatives (e.g., Collaboration Center Foundation)Catholic / faith‑based community support in Las Vegas (e.g., Roman Catholic Bishop of Las Vegas)
Giving Approach
Concentrated, high-dollar grants to a small set of repeat regional grantees; primarily general operating support rather than many small or project‑restricted awards.
About Cashman Family Foundation
The Cashman Family Foundation’s recent giving is marked by repeated, large unrestricted gifts to regional institutions in Southern Nevada and Montana. Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada received $240,000 in 2023, $145,000 in 2025, and $110,000 in 2026, showing a clear pattern of sustained support for the same organization. The foundation also backed local civic and cultural groups with six-figure general-operating grants, including the Collaboration Center Foundation, Nevada Museum of Art, Friends of the Nevada Mansion, and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Las Vegas. That mix points to a funder that favors established community anchors rather than short-term project grants. Across the recent grants list, the foundation’s support reaches youth education, museums and history, disability services, health care, faith-based institutions, and community collaboration efforts. The grant descriptions are consistently framed as donations for general operations, indicating an emphasis on sustaining staffing, overhead, and day-to-day organizational capacity. Recipients include both large regional nonprofits and smaller local institutions, with several organizations appearing more than once across multiple years. The pattern suggests a relationship-based grantmaker that uses flexible support to reinforce organizations already embedded in the communities it serves.
What Cashman Family Foundation Funds
In youth education and financial literacy, the foundation gave $240,000 in 2023, $145,000 in 2025, and $110,000 in 2026 to Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada for general operations. It also supported a related school-based institution, Cashman Middle School, with $35,000 in 2026 and $30,000 in 2025. For community collaboration and youth services, the foundation awarded $125,000 in 2023 and $100,000 in 2024 to Collaboration Center Foundation, both as general-operating support. It also gave $50,000 in 2024 to Miracle League of Las Vegas and $30,000 in 2026 to Communities in Schools of NV. Cultural and historical institutions are another clear theme. Nevada Museum of Art received $100,000 in 2023, 2024, and 2025, while Friends of the Nevada Mansion received $100,000 in 2025 and 2026. In Montana, the foundation supported Montana History Foundation with $100,000 in 2023 and The Foundation for Montana History with $50,000 in 2025.
How Cashman Family Foundation Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$727K
Total Assets
$16.2M
Total Revenue
$1.2M
Total Expenses
$854K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $34K, with a median of $20K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$20K
75th Percentile
$34K
Geographic Reach
Regional5 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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