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Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation

The mission of the martis camp community foundation is to enhance the quality of life in the truckee/north tahoe commumnity by making a positive impact in the areas of education, youth development, human services and recreation.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$742kArts & Culture$599kEducation$433kPhilanthropy$423kHealth$272kYouth Development$202kRecreation & Sports$191kHuman Services$104kFood & Nutrition$87kOther$1.3M
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 40 grants below total $1,049,345 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,396,197 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $346,852 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $581k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $210k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIDZONE MUSEUM$250,000
TAHOE FOREST HEALTH FOUND$60,000
FRIENDS OF TRUCKEE LIBRARY$50,000
SIERRA COMNTYPROJECT MANA$50,000
CLEAN UP THE LAKE$50,000
ADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE$40,000
N TAHOE TRUCKEE HOMELESS$40,000
WAMPLER FOUNDATION$40,000
GATEWAY MOUNTAIN CENTER$40,000
HIGH FIVES$20,000
TRUCKEE TRAILS FOUNDATION$20,000
TRUCKEE ROUNDHOUSE$20,000
TAHOE ABILITY PROGRAM$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$20,000
SEND IT FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ELEVATION TRUCKEE: $20k → 11%SEND IT FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%SEND IT FOUNDATION: $14k → 11%ELEVATION TRUCKEE: $10k → 11%SEND IT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 45 repeat orgs$627k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
7

Total granted

$3.4M
$617k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+1%

Still filing today

89%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SN
    SIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM
    5× · 2018–2024 · $365k · revenue +379% · 75% of their budget
  • AR
    ADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $192k · revenue +186%
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $187k · revenue +490%

Funded once

  • TR
    TRUCKEE-DONNER RECREATION & PARK DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • TD
    TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -50%
  • TR
    TRUCKEE-DONNER RECREATED & PA
    one grant, 2022 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Tahoe Youth Sports Development
Recreation & Sports
2
Sierra State Parks Foundation

The Sierra State Parks Foundation provides critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Donner Sierra State Parks for Education, Restoration, and Cultural and Environmental Preservation in partnership with…

Recreation & Sports
3
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
4
Truckee River Watershed Council

The truckee river watershed council was founded to implement locally developed public-private collaborative solutions to protect and improve water quality and biological resources for the sustainable environmental and economic health of…

Environment
5
Tahoe Community Foundation

The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.

Education
6
Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce

A membership organization dedicated to developing, promoting, and serving your business and community. Our goal is to sustain a high quality of life by achieving economic vitality, with sensitivity and respect for the environment.

—
7
Clean Tahoe Program

To improve the visual quality of the Tahoe Basin portion of El Dorado County through community education, citizen involvement and enforcecment of litter and nuisance ordinances.

Environment
8
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
9
Truckee Meadows Tomorrow

Truckee Meadows Tomorrow enhances our quality of life by providing accurate, timely, and objective data as the basis for community engagement and dialogue.

Unclassified
10
Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association

TAMBA is dedicated to the stewardship of sustainable, multiple-use trails and to preserving access for mountain bikers through advocacy, education and promotion of responsible trail use. TAMBA is primarily a trail building…

Recreation & Sports
11
Tahoe Prosperity Center

The Tahoe Prosperity Center TPC is an innovative nonprofit collaborative created to champion the prosperity initiatives identified in the 2010 Lake Tahoe Basin Prosperity Plan. The TPCs goal is to unite Tahoe's communities to strengthen…

Community Improvement
12
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Charitysmith Nonprofit Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%3%5–10yr21%36%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr12%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%3%5–10yr21%20%10–20yr19%56%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr12%0%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/54
the rest of the field
12%
643/5,251

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/50
Grantees still filing
39/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUCKEE-DONNER RECREATION & PARK DISTRICT — $300,000 · OtherTRUCKEE-DONNER RECREATION & PARK DISTRICTSOUTHBEND UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $177,000 · OtherSOUTHBEND UNITED METHODIST CHURCHTAHOE TRUCKEE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $144,500 · OtherTAHOE TRUCKEE UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE — $144,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOECRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE — $107,500 · OtherCRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COM…Stephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP — $95,000 · OtherStephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMPHEADWATERS SCIENCE INSTITUTE — $62,000 · Other+19 more — $609,070 · Other+19 moreTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $250,000 · EnvironmentTRUCKEE DONNER LAND…SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $187,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONM…Truckee Trails Foundation Inc — $110,290 · EnvironmentTruckee Trails Foun…CLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKE — $85,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN UP THE CAYES …TAHOE FUND — $75,000 · EnvironmentTAHOE FUNDTAHOE INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCE — $34,625 · EnvironmentSIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM — $365,000 · Arts & CultureSIERRA NEVADA C…TRUCKEE ROUNDHOUSE — $80,500 · Arts & CultureTRUCKEE ROUNDHO…Tahoe School of Music — $64,450 · Arts & CultureTahoe School of…TRAILS & VISTAS — $60,500 · Arts & CultureTRAILS & VISTASCATT Community Project — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $8,600 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Truckee Library Inc — $125,000 · EducationFriends of …Sierra Business Council — $114,500 · EducationSierra Busi…AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL — $109,000 · EducationAIM HIGH FO…Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall — $35,500 · EducationArts For Th…TAHOE EXPEDITION ACADEMY INC — $23,700 · EducationTAHOE EXPED…TRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL — $15,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $322,000 · PhilanthropyTAHOE TRUCK…CAST HOPE — $53,500 · PhilanthropyCAST HOPECHARITYSMITH NONPROFIT FOUNDATION — $37,500 · PhilanthropyCHARITYSMIT…+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTAHOE FOREST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $160,000 · HealthHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION — $72,500 · HealthGRANITE WELLNESS CENTERS — $29,000 · HealthBarton Memorial Hospital Foundation — $10,000 · HealthADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE — $191,500 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN SIERRA — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,639,070Environment$741,915Arts & Culture$599,050Education$432,700Philanthropy$423,000Health$271,500Youth Development$201,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSIERRA NEVADA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM DBA KIDZONE MUSEUM — $365,000 over 5y, 75% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $322,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE — $191,500 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $187,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTAHOE FOREST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $160,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE — $144,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetFriends of the Truckee Library Inc — $125,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetSierra Business Council — $114,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetTruckee Trails Foundation Inc — $110,290 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL — $109,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE — $107,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetStephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP — $95,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKE — $85,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetTRUCKEE ROUNDHOUSE — $80,500 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetTAHOE FUND — $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHIGH FIVES NONPROFIT FOUNDATION — $72,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTahoe School of Music — $64,450 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetHEADWATERS SCIENCE INSTITUTE — $62,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetTRAILS & VISTAS — $60,500 over 4y, 28% of budgetCAST HOPE — $53,500 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetBIKING FOR A BETTER WORLD INC — $48,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetACHIEVE TAHOE — $47,070 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE — $47,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTruckee Community Cares — $45,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetSEND IT — $44,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetSOS OUTREACH — $38,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHARITYSMITH NONPROFIT FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTAHOE NORDIC SEARCH & RESCUE INC — $37,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetSOROPTIMIST INTL OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS — $37,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetArts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall — $35,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTAHOE INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL SCIENCE — $34,625 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetSIERRA SENIOR SERVICES DBA MEALS ON WHEELS TAHOE — $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTruckee-Tahoe Soaring Association — $30,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetELEVATION TRUCKEE — $30,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCHOICES TRANSITIONAL SERVICES — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRANITE WELLNESS CENTERS — $29,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTahoe Cross Country Ski Education Association Inc — $27,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTAHOE FOOD HUB — $24,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTAHOE EXPEDITION ACADEMY INC — $23,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATT Community Project — $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSLOW FOOD LAKE TAHOE — $17,500 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF TRUCKEE — $16,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTRUCKEE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA SIERRA EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBarton Memorial Hospital Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE GEMS OF THE SIERRA PRESCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN SIERRA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Tahoe Truckee Communi…Tahoe Community Found…The Corrigan-Walla Fo…Tahoe FundTahoe Mountain Resort…Teichert FoundationThe Martis FundTruckee Donner Chambe…The Lundrigan Walker …Park L Loughlin Chari…Rdh FoundationMightycause Charitabl…
Tahoe Truckee Community FoundationCA82.6× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · The Corrigan-Walla Foundation · Tahoe Fund · Tahoe Mountain Resorts Foundation · Teichert Foundation · The Martis Fund · Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce · The Lundrigan Walker Family Foundation · Park L Loughlin Charitable Foundation · Rdh Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Martis Camp Community Foundation Dba Martis Camp Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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