Nevada · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,447,425 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,008,500). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$15M
Recipients
197
Contributions on record
$18M
Donors on record
80
Payments out are 0.81x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Nevada Community Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- Las Vegas Grand Prix Foundationportfolio match
- Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fundportfolio match
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.
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: 2018 46% · 2019 35% · 2020 9% · 2021 7% · 2022 33% · 2023 38% · 2024 38% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $443k → $1.4M.
18 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 UNITED WAY 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.
Where its funders are
68% of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA'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 $5.9M that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 80 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Nevada Community Foundation Incshared funderslocalNV · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 160 organizations near you
- Las Vegas Grand Prix Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Ways of Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank and Victoria Fertitta Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cashman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- HD Supply Charitable Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Compassion and Charity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alan and Christy Molasky Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pact Coalition for Safe and Drug- Free Communitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 191 organizations that share your funders
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 99 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$850k
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.
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
99%
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 UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA?
- UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA (Nevada) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,447,425 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,008,500). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $18,447,425 in grants to UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,008,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY 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.
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 80funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing