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Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial

To provide funding to facilitate the education, commemoration, preservation and enhancement of historic resources in las vegas.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$2.1M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$150,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$660,962
Organizations funded a year
4 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$6.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $429k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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
FY2025still arriving11$2.1M9%
FY202413$2.1M38%
FY202310$1.7M20%
FY20228$1.1M13%
FY20217$655k43%
FY20206$887k33%
FY20196$1.2M17%
FY20184$2.0M50%
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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 2025.

Arts & Culture$7.1MEducation$2.2MRecreation & Sports$1.7MCommunity Improvement$980kFood & Nutrition$662kHuman Services$216kPublic Benefit$180kAnimals$150kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Las Vegas$4,485,6018n/a
Boyd Productions LLC$1,981,4856n/a
The Neon Museum$1,138,501512%
Helldorado Rodeo and Parade$898,4993n/a
Nevada Preservation Foundation$839,451970%
Plaza Hotel & Casino$775,9634n/a
Westside School Alumni Foundation$500,0001n/a
Slicktion Culture Productions$448,2453n/a
300 Stewart Avenue Corporation$350,76968%
Heather Caputo Productions$345,7253n/a
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All grantees of Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Las Vegas$4,485,6018n/a
Boyd Productions LLC$1,981,4856n/a
The Neon Museum$1,138,501512%
Helldorado Rodeo and Parade$898,4993n/a
Nevada Preservation Foundation$839,451970%
Plaza Hotel & Casino$775,9634n/a
Westside School Alumni Foundation$500,0001n/a
Slicktion Culture Productions$448,2453n/a
300 Stewart Avenue Corporation$350,76968%
Heather Caputo Productions$345,7253n/a
Nevada Test Site Historical$250,00128%
Fremont Street Experience$225,0001n/a
Economic Opportunity Board of Clark County$215,6671n/a
Kme Architects$209,2552n/a
Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education$193,3076n/a
Southern Nevada Public Television$100,00013%
Las Vegas Apartments LLC$99,0001n/a
Clark County School District$90,0001n/a
Discovery Children's Museum$88,50021%
Junior League of Las Vegas$64,76227%
Las Vegas High School Alumni Association$46,0001n/a
Springs Preserve Foundation$41,74024%
Old Time Reunion LLC$22,8311n/a
Aviation Nation 2016$21,8751n/a
Lv Genealogy Society - Moments Woodlawn Cemetary$21,6641n/a
Las Vegas Natural History Museum$19,69412%
As We Knew It LLC$17,6411n/a
Friends of the Fort Inc$15,0001n/a
Friends of Nevada State Museum Las Vegas$10,120118%

Where it is load-bearing

Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Neon Museum: $1,138,501 over 5y, 12% of budgetNevada Preservation Foundation: $839,451 over 9y, 70% of budget300 Stewart Avenue Corporation: $350,769 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetNevada Test Site Historical: $250,001 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetSouthern Nevada Public Television: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDiscovery Children's Museum: $88,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJunior League of Las Vegas: $64,762 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetSprings Preserve Foundation: $41,740 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetLas Vegas Natural History Museum: $19,694 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFriends of Nevada State Museum Las Vegas: $10,120 over 1y, 18% 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 10.

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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.

Nevada Humanities IncNV19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial

How much does Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial give?
Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial reported 13 itemized grants totaling $2,141,515, out of $2,198,059 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Education (16%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
Who are Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Las Vegas ($4.5M), Boyd Productions LLC ($2.0M), The Neon Museum ($1.1M).
Does Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nevada Humanities Inc, United Way of Southern Nevada, NV Energy Charitable Foundation.
Where is Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial based?
Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial 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 29 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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