Startup Vegas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863492884
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7025091481
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Economic Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $345,014
- Expenses
- $492,413
- Assets
- $42,488
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HEATHER BROWN (President)
Highest reported compensation
- HEATHER BROWN (President): $72,917 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
StartUp Vegas is a 501c3 nonprofit whose mission is to boost the startup culture and create an environment of entrepreneurship. By building the infrastructure needed for a sustainable startup ecosystem, this grassroots effort will provide access and exposure for the community while enabling knowledge exchange and advancing the innovation economy of Southern Nevada.
What it reported doing in 2025
Techstars_Startup Weekend.Techstars_Startup Weekend is a three-day program where aspiring entrepreneurs can experience startup life. A creative and collaborative three-day educational event where anyone can develop and pitch new startup ideas. It's about pitching, business model creation, prototyping, designing, and market validation, in a friendly and supportive team environment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 91% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 33
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 42.2%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 29.6%; rating input score 30
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -42.7%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 42.2% of revenue deployed · 29.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $146K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $73K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 23/100.