A Las Vegas volunteer tax network has helped return more than $25 million through free filing. Its clearest argument arrives in one client’s two-hour catch-up on taxes reaching back to 2013.

Las Vegas has a surprising roster of nonprofits doing practical work overseas, and the impressive ones are not trading in vague awareness. They are moving food to Ukrainian orphanages, powering clinics in Ethiopia, sponsoring girls in Zambia, backing rural schools in India, and, in one Kenyan village, turning a single well into clean water for 1,126 people.

Community Cat Angels does the part of rescue most donors never see, the costly stretch between intake and adoption. In Las Vegas, that means paying veterinarian expenses for 269 cats, building foster space, and treating recovery as the real work before adoption.