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ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS

ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS (Nevada) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,598,098 to it, the largest being OLYMPIA COMPANIES SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($507,539). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$9.8M
13/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Assisting Lives in Las Vegas does

Mission

Implements programs and services that enrich the lives of children in need.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Operation school bell provides new clothing, shoes and other essentials to students from kindergarten through twelfth grade in the clark county school district.

    $693,227 spent
    62% of program spending
  2. The scholarship program provides need-based scholarships to clark county students who plan to attend trade, two year, or four year schools in nevada.

    $184,320 spentof which $184,320 as grants
    16% of program spending
  3. Al's closet is an on-site clothing closet in at-risk, low-income schools, providing new clothing to children with immediate needs.

    $77,561 spent
    7% of program spending
  4. Desert sage, our evening auxiliary, provides books that are written, illustrated and published for at-risk schools. Desert sage also runs the angel assistance project, which provides non-profit county hospitals with remembrance boxes for parents of babies who do not survive. Operation bear hug provides teddy bears to firefighters, police, and other local agencies for children in crisis. Other programs include kids on the block puppets program that provides skits on issues of physical, emotional and cultural differences to third graders.

    $168,324 spent
    15% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,123,432.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($9.6M)2020 Revenue 82 ($1.2M) Expenses 105 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($9.6M)2021 Revenue 80 ($1.1M) Expenses 85 ($1.1M) Net assets 108 ($10M)2022 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 106 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($9.6M)2023 Revenue 86 ($1.2M) Expenses 132 ($1.7M) Net assets 94 ($9.0M)2024 Revenue 101 ($1.5M) Expenses 112 ($1.5M) Net assets 97 ($9.3M)2025 Revenue 125 ($1.8M) Expenses 95 ($1.3M) Net assets 103 ($9.8M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (125)Expenses (95)Net assets (103)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $10M to $9.6M (−7%).

$9.6M
$9.7M
$10M
$9.6M
$9.0M
$9.4M
$9.9M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

87% of ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$120k
’19
−$201k
’20
$29k
’21
$51k
’22
−$511k
’23
−$24k
’24
$557k
’25
7.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed12131313131414
Joined·+5+7+11+7+7+5
No longer listed·4711765
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $11k → $215k.

7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS.

32%
largest funder
74%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 66% · 2019 51% · 2020 51% · 2021 64% · 2022 77% · 2023 70% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

41% of ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

82% of ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS's grant income comes from Nevada funders.

WA
IL
NV
WY
IA
PA
NJ
RI
AZ
NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Nevada out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $534k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin31% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Nevada

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 29%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS?
ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS (Nevada) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,598,098 to it, the largest being OLYMPIA COMPANIES SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($507,539). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,598,098 in grants to ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS?
OLYMPIA COMPANIES SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $507,539 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSISTING LIVES IN LAS VEGAS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 29 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing