Nevada · Nonprofit
UNLV RESEARCH FOUNDATION
UNLV RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,286 to it, the largest being NEVADA VISION FOUNDATION ($400,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $833k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $486k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Unlv Research Foundation does
Mission
The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of higher education / nshe and commercialization opportunities that may be created as a result of research activities to enhance economic development in nevada.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of the foundation is to support unlv research by developing and maintaining unlv research and technology parks to enhance intellectual, scientific, and financial growth for the university. To fulfill this mission, the foundation is facilitating the real estate development of the unlv harry reid research and technology park.
$799,564 spent$830,473 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $799,564.
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 2021 to 2022, from $9.3M to $19M (+107%).
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: 2022 78% · 2023 62%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of UNLV RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Zachary Miles
Executive director
Board chair
Steve Comer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $43k → $43k.
From the IRS filings of UNLV RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
UNLV RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 UNLV RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of UNLV RESEARCH 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. 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
UNLV RESEARCH FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 453 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 453 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding UNLV RESEARCH FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.6M on record.
- Department of Commerce$5.6M
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 UNLV RESEARCH 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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Board of Regents Nshe · exempt
- Unlv Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNLV RESEARCH 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 UNLV RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- UNLV RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Nevada) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,286 to it, the largest being NEVADA VISION FOUNDATION ($400,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNLV RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $486,286 in grants to UNLV RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of UNLV RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- NEVADA VISION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNLV RESEARCH 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 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing