Nevada · Nonprofit
HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,677,427 to it, the largest being NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($826,629). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Help of Southern Nevada does
Mission
Help of Southern Nevada (organization) is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to assist families and individuals throughout southern nevada to overcome barriers and attain self-sufficiency through direct services, training and referral to community resources. The organization is primarily supported through government grants, program fees, and contributions from the general public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The family housing services department is made up of housing for families with children, pregnant women and youth who are at-risk of becoming homeless or homeless living in shelters, vehicles or on the streets. Family housing services provides supportive services through rental assistance, eviction prevention programs, helps's diaper bank, and energy share- southwest gas utility assistance. In fy25, 654 households were provided emergency rental assistance and 1,887 families were served by the diaper bank.
$7,167,275 spentof which $4,769,803 as grants31% of program spendingHelp of Southern Nevada's adult housing programs operates five housing programs dedicated to assisting chronically homeless individuals and families with documented disabilities. These programs provide housing and intensive case management, focusing on supportive services that help clients overcome barriers, stabilize their mental health and/or substance use, and work toward self-sufficiency. Utilizing a housing first and harm reduction approach, the programs offer scattered-site housing and comprehensive case management to promote long-term stability and independence. In fy25, ahp assisted 485 clients in 367 households. Of these households, 102 achieved sustained income, and 53 exited the program to stable housing.
$5,961,797 spentof which $3,865,140 as grants26% of program spendingHelp of Southern Nevada's shannon west homeless youth center (swhyc) provides services for at-risk youth, age 18-24, that are homeless or at- risk of becoming homeless. Swhyc provides safe and stable housing, basic needs/food, intensive case management, person centered case plan, housing stability plan, education assistance, employment assistance, assistance in transitioning to own apartment, addiction and mental health services, health and wellness, financial literacy, activities of daily living and supportive services. At capacity swhyc can house 130 youth. During fy25, swhyc served 421 youth, of which 251 exited to safe and stable housing. Swhyc is certified to provide level 1 outpatient substance abuse and co- occurring treatment and prevention by the state of nevada division of public and behavioral health.
$3,400,288 spentof which $328,884 as grants$27,209 earned by the program15% of program spendingWeatherization assistance the weatherization assistance program was created in 1976 by the u.s. Department of energy (doe) to assist low-income families who lacked resources to invest in energy efficiency. Help of Southern Nevada has been providing weatherization services in southern nevada for over 30 years. These services are free of charge for our qualifying clients. Help serves low-income clients with a focus on elderly, families with children, and the most vulnerable during hvac emergencies. The program provides measures such as heating and air conditioning repair or replacement, water heater and oven replacement, solar screens, attic insulation, refrigerators, weather- stripping, low-flow showerheads, and other energy saving measures. Over 270 homes were served in fy25. Energy share is a weatherization program made available through donations for low-income southwest gas customers experiencing an unexpected financial hardship. Assistance is provided to qualified southwest gas customers with the payment of their gas bill and/or emergency repair or replacement of certain natural gas equipment. Homeless response teams the homeless response teams consist of five teams: mcit…
$6,597,219 spentof which $2,506,233 as grants$171,456 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,126,579.
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 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $20M (+46%).
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 84% · 2018 86% · 2019 86% · 2020 87% · 2021 68% · 2022 90% · 2023 87% · 2024 86% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Hank Van Son
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $152k → $773k.
11 of 80 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 HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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
HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
58% 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 HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 34% · 2019 26% · 2020 55% · 2021 14% · 2022 15% · 2023 19% — 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
57% of HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
51% of HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA's funding base is broadening — from 11 funders to 33 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$24.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
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 HELP 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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
- Tropicana Trails LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA?
- HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,677,427 to it, the largest being NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($826,629). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $5,677,427 in grants to HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA?
- NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $826,629 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELP 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 80 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing