Nevada · Nonprofit
OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,445,695 to it, the largest being Conservation Lands Foundation ($535,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $291k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $711k
What Outside Las Vegas Foundation does
Mission
To empower residents and visitors alike by promoting options for healthy and happy lifestyles through outdoor adventures. To provide lifelong learning s.t.e.a.m. Programs for young children and older students that inspire studying the outdoors. To offer meaningful service opportunities that encourage stewardship of our natural landscapes, local parks, and urban trails. To create valuable stakeholder partnerships and consistently build positive relationships with foundations, businesses, government bodies, and other community groups that value nevada's treasured outdoor environments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Volunteer programs: the core of our mission is rooted in providing outdoor-based community volunteer projects that connect individuals and groups of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to the outdoors through unique volunteer service projects. Our team works with local municipalities and federal land management partners to connect community members with hands-on learning and service opportunities on public lands, urban parks and trails. Volunteer projects typically include tree planting, native habitat restoration, litter removal/recovery, painting/cleaning and other outdoor recreation infrastructure improvements. From january to june 2025, we hosted 49 volunteer events that engaged 2,202 volunteers and generated 5,156 hours of service. Together our volunteers planted 113 trees, established 500 native plants, and recovered over 17,556.1 pounds of trash from outdoor recreation areas located across clark county.
$182,684 spent36% of program spendingOutreach programs: get outdoors nevada serves as an important community connector, bridging our local community of residents with the various municipalities and land agencies that manage public lands and outdoor recreation spaces across southern nevada. In particular, our organization serves as both the contracted facilitator for the regional open space and trails collaborative and as the official philanthropic partner, or "friends group" for lake mead national recreation area. In these capacities, we invest time and resources into developing, supporting and building community awareness around major outdoor-focused projects and initiatives such as the vegas valley rim trail or restoration of historic railroad tunnel trail. We also provide educational outreach programming across a wide variety of community-based events, all focused on building increased awareness and connection with the outdoors through initiatives that include "leave no trace- and "meet your mojave."
$203,435 spent40% of program spendingEnvironmental education programs: get outdoors nevada provides a range of environmental education programs designed to foster lifelong connections between k-12 youth and southern nevada's outdoor environments. A core focus of our programs is increasing the accessibility of hands-on, place-based learning experiences in the outdoors for all students. This goal is achieved through delivering experiential learning opportunities such as guided field trips, native habitat educational gardens and our next generation science standards (ngss) program. We also partner with clark county to deliver the mojave max program to elementary schools across clark county. From january to june 2025, we delivered 121 classroom programs that impacted over 5,041 students.
$125,350 spent$41,157 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $511,469.
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 2022 to 2023, from $818k to $1.2M (+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 50% · 2018 68% · 2019 42% · 2020 43% · 2021 72% · 2022 69% · 2023 69% · 2024 59% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kevin M Lang Pe
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $223k → $118k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 47% · 2019 72% · 2020 36% · 2021 56% · 2022 65% · 2023 55% — 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
50% of OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of the Interior$2.5M
- Department of Agriculture$7k
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 OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION?
- OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,445,695 to it, the largest being Conservation Lands Foundation ($535,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,445,695 in grants to OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION?
- Conservation Lands Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $535,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION 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 24 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