Nevada · Public charity
Nevada Humanities Inc
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- $215k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $175k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,750
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $33,192
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Nevada Humanities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $175k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $165k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $568k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $150k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $254k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $12k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $14k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $7k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | $172,391 | 7 | n/a |
| Western Folklife Center Inc | $66,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Las Vegas Natural History Museum | $59,249 | 4 | 2% |
| Discovery Children's Museum | $58,213 | 5 | 1% |
| Nevada Museum of Art | $55,850 | 5 | 0% |
| The Neon Museum | $55,792 | 4 | 0% |
| Northern Nevada Literacy Council | $50,912 | 3 | 2% |
| 300 Stewart Avenue Corporation | $50,400 | 3 | 0% |
| The Holland Project | $45,050 | 4 | 4% |
| Channel 5 Public Broadcasting Inc | $41,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 60 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Nevada Humanities Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Tahoe Community Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · Commission for the Las Vegas Centennial · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Dermody Properties Foundation · Estelle J Kelsey Foundation
How this is measured
About Nevada Humanities Inc
- How much does Nevada Humanities Inc give?
- Nevada Humanities Inc reported 22 itemized grants totaling $174,672, out of $215,271 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Nevada Humanities Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (65%), Education (17%), Public Benefit (6%).
- Who are Nevada Humanities Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education ($172k), Western Folklife Center Inc ($66k), Las Vegas Natural History Museum ($59k).
- Does Nevada Humanities Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nevada Humanities Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include NV Energy Charitable Foundation, Community Foundation of Northern Nevada, John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158.
- Where is Nevada Humanities Inc based?
- Nevada Humanities Inc is based in NV.
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