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SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEVADA INC

EIN 93-2574727 LAS VEGAS, NV

Revenue 2024
$2,628,164
Expenses 2024
$1,706,292

Program services were 61.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N72
Classification
1200
Street
4000 S EASTERN AVE STE 320

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. This gives them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendships with their families, other Special Olympics athletes, and the community.

  • Community Sports - This SONV programs provides opportunities for people with and without ID to engage in sports together all year long. Our program is free of charge to participants and has activities for every ability level. Children that are interesting in competing can enter competitions as young as 8 years old; but we have programming for ages 2 senior citizens. Our southern Nevada sports schedule includes the following: basketball, bowling, bocce, flag football, golf, swimming and track and field. During 2024, SONV engaged over 2,818 athletes and 1,968 volunteers in this program.

    Expenses $356,327

  • Unified Champion Schools - This program focuses on creating inclusive school campuses for people with ID. The program targets students without disabilities i.e., student leaders to be the drivers of the program. Student leaders encourage their friends without disabilities to include students with disabilities in activities that they lead on their campus. The Champion Schools program includes lessons and opportunities for students to create events that engage the entire school and sports training and leadership development. During 2024, SONV was able to engage 75 schools in the Champion Schools Program. The program also engaged 28,941 students within the State of Nevada.

    Expenses $227,746 · Grants $37,593

  • Mindset Matters - This program utilizes some aspects of the Strong Minds program, in addition to new elements from the 8-Dimensions of Wellness Model, the Together Counts Program, and evidence-based activities to teach Nevada students adaptive coping skills and strategies to maintain emotional wellness. The Mindset Matters program includes topics such as: emotion identification and regulation, relaxation breathing, cognitive restructuring, muscle relaxation, mindfulness and interpersonal relationships, and social wellness and social skills. During 2024, SONV was able to engage over 4,500 students and 200 volunteers in this program.

    Expenses $221,637

  • Athlete Leadership - This program allows people with disabilities the opportunity to receive training in speech writing and coaching so that they feel comfortable speaking in public. Program participants that receive this training have the opportunity to advocate; meeting annually with Nevada delegates at the national and state level; to speak first-hand on the impact that SONVs programs is having in their lives. Other program participants make presentations to corporate boards or business organizations to support diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts. Athlete leaders also engage in SONV fundraising activities and interviews to broaden awareness of the organizations work. During 2024, SONV engaged 65 athletes in this program.

    Expenses $140,387

  • Healthy Athletes - Through this program, Nevada has the opportunity to position the state as a region where people with ID are provided full inclusion in mainstream health policies, laws, programs and services, research and funding streams. At our national level, Special Olympics has partnered with the Center for Disease Control (CDC) to create curriculum so that local programs can train physicians, medical technicians and higher education students studying these disciplines in their state to become volunteers and provide health screenings and education to people with ID and underserved communities. On average, people with ID live 16 years less than the general population, so these health screenings allow us to mitigate health risks. SONV offers health screenings in the following areas: vision, hearing, BMI, podiatry, dental, mental health/stress management, endurance and flexibility testing. During 2024, SONV provided screenings to 200 athletes and trained 17 Clinical Directors in this program.

    Expenses $103,621

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Terrence Thornton

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $168,326
    From this org
    $148,489
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,837
    Hours/week
    55

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $148,489
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $11,236
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,601
    Filer's total
    $168,326

  • David Bowman

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kara Hendricks

    vice-chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Tammy McCoullough

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Joyce Whitney-Silva

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jonah Bjorkman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Alena Olevic

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jonathan Timothy

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • David Navarro

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Myles Hayes

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Steven Liaos

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Lynn Vaugh

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Armida Marin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Brandy Goodson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jake Roszelle

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jeff Assiff

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Michelle Scaduto

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Donna Mendoza-Mitchell

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,628,164
    Expenses
    $1,706,292
    Contributions
    $2,579,118
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2023

Tax period
1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023
Principal officer
Terrence Thornton
Mailing address
4000 S Eastern Ave 320Las Vegas NV 89119
Website
www.specialolympics.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.