· Public charity
Las Vegas Events Inc
Advancing of commercial interests in state of nevada by encouraging and promoting special events, which will stimulate tourism, commerce, trade and business in southern nevada.
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 19 grants below total $4,360,791 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,849,302 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $488,511 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–50k4 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $959k
- $250k+6 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRUCCI FIREWORKS | $959,970 |
| FREMONT STREET EXPERIENCE | $645,000 |
| US BOWLING CONGRESS | $573,340 |
| EDGEWATER GAMING | $500,000 |
| WEST COAST CONFERENCE | $300,000 |
| MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE | $300,000 |
| MESQUITE RESORT ASSOCIATION | $208,500 |
| COMPETITOR GROUP INC | $150,000 |
| WORLD SERIES OF TEAM ROPING | $150,000 |
| LAUGHLIN TOURISM COMMISSION | $110,000 |
| GROUP W PRODUCTIONS LLC | $100,000 |
| LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL LLC | $75,000 |
| SENIOR SOFTBALL USA | $65,000 |
| THE NATIONAL BOWLING ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| INDIAN NATIONAL FINALS RODEO | $50,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 10 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; $21k 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
- USUNITED STATES BOWLING CONGRESS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +41%
- MWMOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +183%
- LTLAUGHLIN TOURISM COMMISSION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +131% · 79% of their budget
Funded once
- UIUFC INT'L FIGHT WEEK (ZUFFA LLC)3× · 2017–2020 · $150k
- EMEMERGE MUSIC CONFERENCEone grant, 2018 · $100k
- RARE ARENA INCone grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
The purpose is to maintain intercollegiate athletics as an integral part of the education program and the athlete as an integral part of the student body and by doing so, retain a clear line of demarcation between college athletics and…
The conference is committed to providing student-athletes an exemplary university experience - both on and off the field of play. with high standards of integrity at the core of our athletic and academic excellences, our goal is to unlock…
Provide a world-class athletics and academic experience for student-athletes that fosters lifelong well-being.
Through its values, the northwest conference unites its member colleges and universities in the pacific northwest to empower student-athletes in their pursuit of academic and athletic excellence at the division iii level.
Promote intercollegiate rodeo activities, maintain an operating code for intercollegiate competition, and coordinate intercollegiate rodeo on a national level.
Foster amateur intercollegiate sports competition between member institution teams under the rules and regulations of the ncaa.
To be the Nationally Governing Body of Team Ski and Snowboard Competition at the Collegiate Level and provide competition and development opportunities for student activities in a team atmosphere. Determining National Championships in each…
The NSIC is a model Division II conference that uses high-level athletics competition to develop champions in the classroom and community while empowering student-athletes to be impactful and positive leaders.
Amateur Sports
The southwestern athletic conference, inc. is organized exclusively for the purpose of encouraging, promoting, advancing, and conducting intercollegiate sports activities and other recreational and not-for-profit activities among the…
Promote athletics for member colleges and universities by organizing schedules, promulgatin rules, tv promotion, and obtaining sponsorships
The rocky mountain athletic conference empowers student-athletes to realize their full potential in athletics, academics and in life through a richly rewarding and nationally competitive experience at our unique ncaa division ii…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pac-12 Conference and the most unlike its peers is Snore Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 33 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 UNITED STATES BOWLING CONGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN WEST CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds PAC-12 CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds LAUGHLIN TOURISM COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds West Coast Conference ↗
- Who funds INDIAN NATIONAL FINALS RODEO ↗
- Who funds USSSA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds SNORE LTD ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL BOWLING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Las Vegas Events Inc 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.