Nevada · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 169 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,603,284 to it, the largest being Wolzinger Family Foundation Mel Wolzinger President ($11,413,000). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- Canarelli Family Foundationshared funders
- Beavers Charitable Trustportfolio match
- Wind for Schools LLC Dba Repowering Schoolsportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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
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 169 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 169 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 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
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; 56% 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
85% 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 14 statesis 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 169 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Canarelli Family Foundationshared fundersNV · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- Beavers Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wind for Schools LLC Dba Repowering Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hacking for Defense Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Veterans Leadership Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Council of Examiners For Engineering and Surveyingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chapman Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grant Thornton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nfpa Education & Technology Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
- The George Washington Universityshared fundersVA · backs 66 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.
Organizations like UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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 169 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,603,284 to it, the largest being Wolzinger Family Foundation Mel Wolzinger President ($11,413,000). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 169 organizations giving $78,603,284 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION, 94 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION?
- Wolzinger Family Foundation Mel Wolzinger President 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 169funders 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