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The Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$553k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.3MEducation$1.1MReligion$825kPhilanthropy$4Other$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $293k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
$18,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATIO$90,000
MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC$70,000
HAWAII OPERA THEATRE$70,000
CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREW$45,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII MANOA$35,000
HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$30,000
SIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION$30,000
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF HONOLULU$23,000
RENO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA$20,000
HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY$20,000
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART$18,000
AVA BALLET THEATRE$17,000
RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOC$15,000
OAHU CHORAL SOCIETY$10,000
CHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII MANOA: $58k → 9%RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOC: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII MANOA: $56k → 9%RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOC: $45k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $55k → 9%RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOC: $45k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII MANOA: $45k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII MANOA: $45k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII MANOA: $35k → 9%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $87k → 17%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $70k → 17%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $70k → 17%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 10%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $69k → 17%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 10%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 10%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $67k → 17%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 10%SIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $66k → 17%SIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 10%MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $60k → 17%SIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $60k → 9%HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $40k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATIO: $90k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATIO: $90k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATIO: $90k → 10%HAWAII OPERA THEATER: $115k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATIO: $90k → 10%HAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $85k → 9%HAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $75k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATIO: $90k → 10%HAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $75k → 9%HAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $70k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATIO: $80k → 10%HAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $65k → 9%HAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $65k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATIO: $80k → 10%HAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $60k → 9%CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREW: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATIO: $80k → 10%CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREW: $45k → 9%CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREWS: $40k → 9%CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREW: $40k → 9%CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREW: $40k → 9%CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREW: $40k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 27 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
5

Total granted

$5.0M
$140k

Still filing today

74%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
Arts & CultureEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    University of Nevada Reno Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $690k · revenue +35%
  • HO
    HAWAII OPERA THEATRE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $610k · revenue +12%
  • MS
    MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $490k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII
    one grant, 2017 · $55k
  • TE
    TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH RENO
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • SP
    ST PATRICKS CATHEDRAL
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
2
Vanguard Concerts
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3
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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4
Foundation for Modern Opera
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5
San Jose Chamber Music Society

To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…

—
6
Orlando Philharmonic
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7
Seattle Chamber Orchestra

Gather diverse and talented musicians, professionals and amateurs, to curate and perform orchestral repertoire that uplifts, inspires, and celebrates live performances, as well as offer educational activities concerning music.

Arts & Culture
8
American Chamber Ensemble Inc

The American Chamber Ensemble is a consortium of distinguished musicians whose concerts explore the music for piano with strings, woodwinds and/or voice, presenting both great standard repertoire and living American composers.

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9
Vermont Philharmonic Inc

The purpose of the Vermont Philharmonic, Inc is to provide the very best live, symphonic music concerts within our means and abilities to as wide an area of Vermont audiences as feasible, to promote the appreciation of good symphonic and…

Arts & Culture
10
Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra

To culturally enrich the communities of north central washington through music performance, outreach and education.

—
11
Oratorio Society of Minnesota

Performance and Promotion of Choral Music

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12
Hawaii Book and Music Festival
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Symphony Orchestra; the most unlike its peers is University of Nevada Reno Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $609,500 · Arts & CultureHAWAII OPERA THEATREMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $489,711 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSICNevada Museum of Art: $320,000 · Arts & CultureNevada Museum of ArtHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $278,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRASIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 · Arts & CultureSIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION INCRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $219,000 · Arts & CultureRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INCReno Chamber Orchestra Inc: $150,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $148,000 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: $126,000 · Arts & CultureA V A BALLET THEATRE: $111,000 · Arts & CultureOAHU CHORAL SOCIETY: $104,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $276,500 · Arts & Culture+6 moreTRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL RENO: $326,241 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL …CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREW: $310,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDRE…UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII MANOA: $296,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII MANOALUTHERAN CHURCH OF HONOLULU: $97,500 · OtherLUTHERAN CHURCH OF HONOLULUHawaii Youth Opera Chorus: $94,500 · OtherHawaii Youth Opera ChorusUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $55,000 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH RENO: $50,000 · Other+7 more: $71,504 · Other+7 moreUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $690,000 · EducationUniversity of Nev…CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $50,000 · EducationCHAMINADE UNIVERS…MINEOLA CHORAL SOCIETY INC: $46,500 · EducationMINEOLA CHORAL SO…
Arts & Culture$3,107,211Other$1,300,745Education$786,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $690,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII OPERA THEATRE: $609,500 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $489,711 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $320,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $278,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetSIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $219,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetReno Chamber Orchestra Inc: $150,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetHONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART: $148,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHONOLULU CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: $126,000 over 7y, 34% of budgetA V A BALLET THEATRE: $111,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetOAHU CHORAL SOCIETY: $104,500 over 8y, 86% of budgetHawaii Youth Opera Chorus: $94,500 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII: $78,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetTHE LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETYORPHEON INC: $65,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINEOLA CHORAL SOCIETY INC: $46,500 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $35,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetMASTERVOICES INC: $33,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII OPERA THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Reno Chamber Orchestra Inc ↗
  • Who funds HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds HONOLULU CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES ↗
  • Who funds A V A BALLET THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds OAHU CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus ↗
  • Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds THE LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETYORPHEON INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAMINADE UNIVERSITY OF HONOLULU ↗
  • Who funds MINEOLA CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LUKES CHAMBER ENSEMBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds MASTERVOICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Atherton Family Found…Cooke Foundation Limi…John R Halligan Chari…J Watumull FundCarol Franc Buck Foun…The Cades FoundationKosasa FoundationThe Dods FoundationPikake Foundation IncCastiglione A Casauri…The Nell J Redfield F…McInerny Foundation--
Atherton Family FoundationHI21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · John R Halligan Charitable Fund · J Watumull Fund · Carol Franc Buck Foundation · The Cades Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · The Dods Foundation · Pikake Foundation Inc · Castiglione A Casauria Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · McInerny Foundation--

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Arthur and Mae Orvis Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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