· Public charity
Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial
To provide funding to facilitate the education, commemoration, preservation and enhancement of historic resources in las vegas.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $2,141,515 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,198,059 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,544 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $661k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYD PRODUCTIONS LLC | $660,962 |
| NEON MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| PLAZA HOTEL & CASINO | $200,000 |
| CITY OF LAS VEGAS | $180,000 |
| SLICKTION CULTURE PRODUCTIONS LLC | $174,195 |
| HEATHER CAPUTO PRODUCTIONS | $168,277 |
| CITY OF LAS VEGAS | $150,000 |
| NEVADA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $140,189 |
| KME ARCHITECTS | $135,835 |
| NEON MUSEUM | $72,224 |
| MOB MUSEUM DOCUMENTARY | $27,750 |
| UNIVERSITY NEVADA LAS VEGAS | $21,963 |
| FRIENDS OF NEVADA STATE MUSEUM LAS VEGAS | $10,120 |
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 (FY24–24, $216k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in NV; read by stated purpose it is 89% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +22% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TNTHE NEON MUSEUM5× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +152%
- NPNEVADA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $839k · revenue +39% · 70% of their budget
- NTNEVADA TEST SITE HISTORICAL2× · 2021–2022 · $250k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- WSWESTSIDE SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $500k
- FSFREMONT STREET EXPERIENCEone grant, 2020 · $225k
- EOECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY BOARD OF CLARK COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $216k · revenue +354%
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.
Northeastern nevada historcial society is dedicated to the preservation of the hertitage, culture, and natural history of northeastern nevada. our ongoing goals are to establish a western art center and nourish the western culture that…
To provide the public with display of classic, antique, rare and contemporary automobiles.
Public museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, promotion, and exhibition of the history, pre-history, natural history, and cultural heritage of north central nevada.
The nevada state parks foundation is dedicated to enhancing and preserving the natural beauty, cultural heritage and recreational opportunities within the nevada division of state parks. the foundation is committed to supporting the…
To ensure that the history of las vegas is safely preserved and easily available to educators, historians, students, and the world wide media through the special collections at unlv and the world wide web.
FNSRM provides resources and services for the NeVada State RailRoad Museum, including fund raising, advocacy, and volunteer work ranging from visitor service to restoration and operation of the equipment in its collection.
To honor and preserve the legacy of our fallen brothers and sisters who have given their life in service to our country since nevada became a state in 1864
The organization is formed for the preservation, maintenance, restoration and support of the nevada governors mansion.
To educate its members and the public and to provide support to the operations of the nevada state railroad museum in boulder city, nevada.
Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.
To preserve and protect the special places and open spaces of nevada for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Las Vegas Natural History Museum and the most unlike its peers is Economic Opportunity Board of Clark County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 29 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 NEON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEVADA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 300 STEWART AVENUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEVADA TEST SITE HISTORICAL ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY BOARD OF CLARK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds SPRINGS PRESERVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEVADA STATE MUSEUM LAS VEGAS ↗
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 Humanities Inc · United Way of Southern Nevada · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial 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.
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.