Nevada · Nonprofit
SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION
SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION (Nevada) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,395,076 to it, the largest being NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,961,850). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Southern Nevada Public Television does
Mission
To secure financial and volunteer support for production and promotion partnerships that magnify the community impact of vegas pbs media services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Southern Nevada Public Television (snpt) continues to fulfill its mission by securing vegas pbs individual membership, corporate and foundation donations, which are then contributed and utilized by vegas pbs to create uplifting and family content and activities which audiences of all ages can participate in. Some of the quality programs and activities vegas pbs is able to produce because of snpt's support are: early childhood educational workshops for families, educating both parents and children on how to become better readers, locally-produced programs highlighting the arts, current affairs, and local resources within our community. Snpt also coordinated a fundraising gala to gather additional support and donations.
$691,063 spentof which $690,489 as grants72% of program spendingSnpt received funding from a federal clark county arpa grant to provide support to the unemployed and underemployed, helping them identify aptitudes and abilities and match them up with potential job training or jobs.
$265,664 spent28% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $956,727.
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 $4.5M to $5.6M (+24%).
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 12% · 2018 7% · 2019 11% · 2020 12% · 2021 10% · 2022 29% · 2023 26% · 2024 29% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% 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.
Chief executive
Mary Mazur
Executive director
Board chair
Jason Gastwirth
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $163k → $192k.
11 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 35% · 2019 71% · 2020 44% · 2021 90% · 2022 37% · 2023 27% — 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
39% of SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
75% of SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $852k that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from funders outside Nevada, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M 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
SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$12k
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 SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION: 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 SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION?
- SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION (Nevada) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,395,076 to it, the largest being NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,961,850). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $3,395,076 in grants to SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION?
- NEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,961,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHERN NEVADA PUBLIC TELEVISION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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