Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943192750
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7027339800
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,591,060
- Expenses
- $27,385,064
- Assets
- $21,907,196
- Liabilities
- $7,331,262
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN WALDRON (CEO)
- RYN BARTEL (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN WALDRON (CEO): $255,859 total reported compensation
- DONYA MONROE (PRIOR CFO): $205,164 total reported compensation
- LEANA RAMIREZ (CCO): $186,946 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The lgbtq+ center of las vegas ("the center") serves as a welcoming system of care and support for lgbtqia+ individuals, families, and allies, advancing its mission through three interconnected pillars: community building, advocacy, and health and wellness. The center provides a comprehensive continuum of programs and services, including primary and sexual healthcare, HIV/sti testing and prevention, behavioral health and recovery services, pharmacy services, mobile healthcare, community resource navigation, victim advocacy and crisis support, transitional and permanent affordable housing, education and training, support groups, arts and cultural programming, and opportunities for social connection and community engagement. Programs serve youth, adults, families, older adults, veterans, people with disabilities, people living with HIV, individuals experiencing housing instability, and others who face barriers to care and support. Through its campuses, mobile services, community partners
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth and family youth and family therapeutic support groups our weekly youth & family therapeutic support groups provided separate therapeutic spaces for lgbtq+ youth and their caregivers. Facilitated by licensed therapists, these groups supported families navigating identity exploration, family acceptance, crisis, legal challenges, and social isolation while strengthening peer support and long-term community connections. Qvolution qvolution served lgbtqia+ and ally youth ages 13 to 24 through age-specific programming focused on social connection, leadership, recreation, education, and personal growth. During 2025, the program expanded to include workshops in automotive care, sewing, songwriting, voice acting, cosmetic science, advocacy, and other practical life skills, helping prepare youth for adulthood while fostering confidence, resilience, and community engagement. Qkids qkids provided a welcoming bi-monthly program for lgbtq+ youth ages 12 and under and their families. Through creative activities, community building, and family engagement, children explored and celebrated their identities while parents and caregivers received education, peer support, and access to affirming resources. Pivot pivot remained one of the lgbtq center of las vegas' signature family support programs in 2025. Through four six-week cohorts, the program helped lgbtq+ youth and caregivers strengthen communication, increase family acceptance, and build healthier relationships. Saturday youth & family groups were added during each cohort to provide additional peer support and emotional connection while introducing families to the center's broader continuum of youth and family services. Comprehensive sex education youth ages 13 to 18 received free lgbtqia+-inclusive comprehensive sex education covering consent, healthy relationships, contraception, pregnancy prevention, HIV/sti prevention, and identity development. During 2025, programming expanded to include a multi-week queer-centered summer sex education series designed to provide medically accurate, affirming education for lgbtq+ youth. Seniors men's monday game day men's monday provided lgbtq+ senior men with a consistent opportunity for friendship, games, conversation, and social connection. The program fostered routine, peer support, and meaningful community engagement throughout the year. Wize womyn's wednesday wize womyn provided senior lesbian women with a vibrant weekly community centered on friendship, recreation, and wellness. Activities throughout 2025 included tai chi, wii bowling, mah jong, card games, arts and crafts, bingo, birthday celebrations, and other social activities designed to promote physical activity, creativity, and lasting friendships. Inclusive thursdays inclusive thursdays featured lunch & learn presentations from community partners covering health, wellness, lifelong learning, local history, legal resources, emergency preparedness, and other topics of interest to lgbtq+ seniors. Programming also included educational community outings and opportunities for social connection over a complimentary lunch. Inclusive & adult programming adult support groups the lgbtq center of las vegas significantly expanded adult programming in 2025 to better meet the diverse needs of the community. New peer-led support groups were launched for underserved populations, including aces & aros, bi/pansexual individuals, furries, and polyamorous individuals, while established groups such as l-group and the black lgbtq group experienced substantial growth in participation. These programs provided safe, affirming spaces where lgbtq+ adults built community, reduced isolation, received peer support, and strengthened their overall well-being. Transgender & gender diversity programs transgender programming experienced its largest expansion to date in 2025 in response to growing community need. In addition to gender translations and guy talk, the center launched beauties in bloom for transfeminine a
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.3%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 90%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.5% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.3% of revenue deployed · 90% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $24.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $256K · 22 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $368K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.