· Private foundation
NV Energy Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k108 grants · $206k
- $10k–50k75 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k21 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Southern Nevada | $500,000 |
| United Way of Northern Nevada & the Sierra | $448,442 |
| University of Nevada Reno Foundation | $250,000 |
| United Way of Southern Nevada | $243,484 |
| Three Square | $125,000 |
| Community Foundation of Northern Nevada | $100,000 |
| Food Bank of Northern Nevada | $100,000 |
| The Public Education Foundation | $100,000 |
| Rebuilding Together So Nevada | $100,000 |
| Serving Our Kids Foundation | $75,000 |
| Three Square | $75,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $75,000 |
| Friends of the Marzen House | $75,000 |
| Walker River Paiute Tribe | $75,000 |
| Communities in Schools of Nevada | $70,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
232 repeat relationships: 104 still active in FY2025, 128 since wound down; 69 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $336k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +32%
- CCCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $790k · revenue +13%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA5× · 2020–2025 · $637k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- UWUnited Way of Southern Nevada- Proj REACHone grant, 2021 · $500k
- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA - PROJECT REACHone grant, 2020 · $500k
- FPFallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribeone grant, 2024 · $250k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our membership is united in pursuit of immediate and continuous improvements to the state's education system. we support an ambitious, agressive and comprehensive reform agenda to dramatically increase the college and workforce readiness…
To promote fair government practices and for all other legal purposes
To uplift the indigenous community by building political power.
CSNV is engaged in comprehensive community development projects that promote neighborhood revitalization and economic development, community education and civic action, housing, development; cultural awareness, equity and
The nevada council on problem gambling is a non-profit information and referral agency whose efforts are focused on reducing the impact of problem gambling on individuals, families and communities in nevada. it is the mission of the 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…
Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.
How this is measured
287 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 287 of the 501 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEVADA AND THE SIERRA ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds TAHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Northern Nevada ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Las Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEEP TRUCKEE MEADOWS BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds NEVADA CLEAN ENERGY FUND ↗
- Who funds Nevada Outdoor School ↗
- Who funds WESTERN FOLKLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ENVIROLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds TECH IMPACT ↗
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: United Way of Southern Nevada · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Mgm Resorts Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · Renown Health · Engelstad Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization NV Energy Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from NV Energy Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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