Nevada · Nonprofit
GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,911,856 to it, the largest being THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,267,929). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada does
Mission
The lgbtq+ center of las vegas ("the center") serves as a welcoming system of care and support for lgbtqia+ individuals, families, and allies, advancing its mission through three interconnected pillars: community building, advocacy, and health and wellness. The center provides a comprehensive continuum of programs and services, including primary and sexual healthcare, hiv/sti testing and prevention, behavioral health and recovery services, pharmacy services, mobile healthcare, community resource navigation, victim advocacy and crisis support, transitional and permanent affordable housing, education and training, support groups, arts and cultural programming, and opportunities for social connection and community engagement. Programs serve youth, adults, families, older adults, veterans, people with disabilities, people living with hiv, individuals experiencing housing instability, and others who face barriers to care and support. Through its campuses, mobile services, community partners
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth and family youth and family therapeutic support groups our weekly youth & family therapeutic support groups provided separate therapeutic spaces for lgbtq+ youth and their caregivers. Facilitated by licensed therapists, these groups supported families navigating identity exploration, family acceptance, crisis, legal challenges, and social isolation while strengthening peer support and long-term community connections. Qvolution qvolution served lgbtqia+ and ally youth ages 13 to 24 through age-specific programming focused on social connection, leadership, recreation, education, and personal growth. During 2025, the program expanded to include workshops in automotive care, sewing, songwriting, voice acting, cosmetic science, advocacy, and other practical life skills, helping prepare youth for adulthood while fostering confidence, resilience, and community engagement. Qkids qkids provided a welcoming bi-monthly program for lgbtq+ youth ages 12 and under and their families. Through creative activities, community building, and family engagement, children explored and celebrated their identities while parents and caregivers received education, peer support, and access to affirming…
$24,638,731 spentof which $130,342 as grants$23,873,967 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $24,638,731.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $19M (+66%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 31% · 2018 31% · 2019 37% · 2020 36% · 2021 34% · 2022 14% · 2023 22% · 2024 24% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
John Waldron
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $34k → $664k.
11 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. 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
GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 66% · 2019 31% · 2020 46% · 2021 45% · 2022 74% · 2023 77% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
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
GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.9M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.2M
- Department of Justice$600k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Center Foundation of Nevada · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA?
- GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,911,856 to it, the largest being THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,267,929). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $5,911,856 in grants to GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA?
- THE LEONA M AND HARRY B HELMSLEY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,267,929 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 48 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