· Public charity
United Way of Southern Nevada
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA, inc.
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 53 grants below total $2,030,385 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,628,844 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,598,459 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
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $651k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEADERS IN TRAINING | $240,000 |
| FULFILLMENT FUND OF LAS VEGAS | $200,000 |
| UNLV FOUNDATION | $181,000 |
| YMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA-HEINRICH | $132,000 |
| SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA | $120,000 |
| GREEN OUR PLANET | $111,652 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $100,000 |
| THE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $80,600 |
| CRISTO REY ST VIATOR COLLEGE | $64,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF | $59,819 |
| JOBS FOR NEVADA GRADUATES INC ( JA | $53,548 |
| DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $45,000 |
| NEVADA BALLET THEATER | $33,000 |
| NEVADA HAND INC | $32,500 |
| HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY INC | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 18 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k 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
- LILEADERS IN TRAINING6× · 2019–2025 · $614k · revenue +37% · 54% of their budget
- HOHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA6× · 2017–2022 · $461k · revenue +48%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR AN INDEPENDENT TOMORROW6× · 2018–2024 · $379k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $508k
- SCSUNRISE CHILDRENS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $113k · revenue +39%
- KGKENNY GUINN CENTER FOR POLICY PRIORITIESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +64%
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 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…
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Nevada child seekers mission is to advocate for and engage in prevention, identification and location efforts on behalf of missing and exploited children.
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
Partner to provide tools to grow financial capability in nv
NCEDSV provides advocacy, education and support of the front-line organizations that help those impacted by domestic and sexual assault and work towards the elimination of domestic and sexual violence against all persons.
To foster strategic alliances in the health care community, collaborating on workforce issues and being a proactive force for legislative initiatives to improve access and the delivery of health care in southern nevada.
The children's advocacy alliance is an independent voice for nevada's children, advancing systemic change in the areas of early childhood education, children's health, and child welfare. we achieve public policy wins through collaboration…
New vista is committed to providing people of all ages with intellectual and developmental disabilities, equitable opportunities, and supported living arrangements so that they may experience life to the fullest.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southern Nevada and the most unlike its peers is Project Dot. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 8. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 37% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
165 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. 165 of the 198 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 LABOR AGENCY OF NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERS IN TRAINING ↗
- Who funds HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR AN INDEPENDENT TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds NEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPELINK OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds GREEN OUR PLANET ↗
- Who funds SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA ↗
- Who funds TECH IMPACT ↗
- Who funds SAFE NESTTEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGAINST RAPE ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LAS VEGAS INC ↗
- Who funds CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 150 ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR NEVADAS GRADUATES INC ↗
- Who funds ARRIBA LAS VEGAS WORKER CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH EDUCATION AND ACCESS TO CO ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE'S RANCH FOR CHILDREN NEVADA REGION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NEVADA ↗
- Who funds CORE POWERED BY THE ROGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds THE SHADE TREE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF VEGAS VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
- Who funds The Smith Center for the Performing Arts ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDWARD KLINE MEM HOMELESS VETERANS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
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: Mgm Resorts Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Canarelli Family Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Three Square · Engelstad Family Foundation · Mondays Dark · Raiders Foundation Nv · The Zions Bancorporation Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities
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 United Way of Southern Nevada 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.