Nevada · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 172 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,084,721 to it, the largest being The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation ($11,413,000). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $93M
- Funders on record
- 172
- Grants received
- $79M
- Net assets
- $555M
What University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation does
Mission
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that raises and manages private funds for the benefit of UNLV. Our mission is to increase philanthropic support for the university, grow its endowment for long-term financial stability, and enhance the future growth of UNLV.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
SIGNS POINT TO A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR UNLV This past year has been one of remarkable momentum and growth for UNLV and the UNLV Foundation. Our campus welcomed a record-setting 33,000 students this fall, continuing a three-year enrollment streak and affirming the confidence that students and families place in the value of a UNLV degree. More than half of our graduates are the first in their families to earn a bachelor's degree, and their success stories demonstrate the transformative power of education in shaping lives and strengthening Nevada's future. The Rebel community has also rallied behind bold philanthropy, fueling extraordinary achievements. We saw historic fundraising milestones, including a $13 million gift to expand the Lynn Bennett Early Childhood Education Center-doubling opportunities for our youngest Rebels-and the launch of the Sands Institute for Chinese Language and Culture at UNLV and the Kerestesi Center for Insurance and Risk Management, opening new career pathways for our students. Our Annual Dinner more than doubled last year's fundraising totals, Rebels Give soared beyond expectations, and overall giving increased by 40% over the prior year. These results…
$57,657,830 spentof which $57,657,830 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $57,657,830.
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 2024 to 2025, from $508M to $561M (+10%).
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.
77% of UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 44 funders to 63 funders, grant income rose $5.4M → $13M.
22 of 172 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $337M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation); $24M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mountain West Conference). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 172 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
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
30% 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 36% · 2019 52% · 2020 16% · 2021 15% · 2022 53% · 2023 40% — 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
40% of UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
80% of UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Rebel Pursuits LLC · disregarded
- Nevada System of Higher Education · exempt
- Clr and Ksr 1996 Charitable Remainder Un · corp_trust
- Kaplan Charitable Remainder Unitrust Dtd · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION?
- UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 172 organizations whose IRS filings report $79,084,721 to it, the largest being The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation ($11,413,000). 95 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 172 organizations giving $79,084,721 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION, 95 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION?
- The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $11,413,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA 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.
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 172 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