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The Carl & Marilyn Malkmus Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Carl & Marilyn Malkmus Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$150kHealth$73kArts & Culture$57kHuman Services$51kFood & Nutrition$34kHousing & Shelter$19kEnvironment$15kInternational$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALPINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$14,000
DANGBERG HOME RANCH HISTORIC PARK$2,000
VETERANS GUEST HOUSE$1,250
REEL RECOVERY$500
TAHOE PAWS$300
DOUGLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$200
KID'S FISHING DERBY$100
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%TAHOE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 8%LEARNING ALLY: $1k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $1k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $1k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $1k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%CARSON VALLEY CHILDRENS CENTER (AUSTIN'S HOUSE): $2k → 8%CARSON VALLEY CHILDRENS CENTER (AUSTIN'S HOUSE): $2k → 8%CARSON VALLEY CHILDRENS CENTER (AUSTIN'S HOUSE): $2k → 8%CARSON VALLEY CHILDRENS CENTER (AUSTIN'S HOUSE): $1k → 8%CARSON VALLEY CHILDRENS CENTER (AUSTIN'S HOUSE): $1k → 8%PARTNERSHIP OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $2k → 8%PARTNERSHIP OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $2k → 8%PARTNERSHIP OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $2k → 8%PARTNERSHIP OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $2k → 8%PARTNERSHIP OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $1k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
ID
MT
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
OH
NJ
CA
CO
DC
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$396k · 52 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
17

Total granted

$396k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+19%

Still filing today

38%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • CV
    Carson Valley Community Food Closet Inc
    4× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +180%
  • SP
    Suicide Prevention Network
    4× · 2017–2020 · $14k · revenue +196%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TM
    TMCC-TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • HA
    HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF RENO
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
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
2
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
3
Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals
4
Nevada Cancer Research Foundation Inc

Cancer research.

Health
5
American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health
6
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
7
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
8
Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare

To enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

Health
9
Northern Nevada Children's Cancer Foundation

The foundation's mission is to enhance the quality of life for children with cancer and their families by providing financial assistance and compassionate support programs while advocating for increased research funds and raising public…

Philanthropy
10
Sierra Nevada Alliance

To protect and restore sierra lands, water, wildlife and rural communities. to engage and support efforts to adopt exemplary local sustainable community actions accross the sierra nevada that balance social, economic and environmental…

Environment
11
Sierra Watch

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

Environment
12
Nevada Realtors

To protect private property rights and enhance the success and profitability of the real estate profession.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Napa Valley; the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. 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

30 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. 30 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
21/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TMCC-TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $25,000 · OtherTMCC-TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGEDANGBERG HOME RANCH HISTORIC PARK: $21,000 · OtherDANGBERG HOME RANCH HISTORIC PARKIndividual grant recipient: $16,500 · OtherVeterans Guest House Inc: $15,250 · OtherCARSON TAHOE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,200 · OtherALPINE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $12,500 · Other+44 more: $183,700 · Other+44 moreSuicide Prevention Network: $14,000 · HealthSuicide P…CASTING FOR RECOVERY: $8,000 · HealthCASTING F…AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $8,000 · HealthAMYOTROPH…KIDS AND HORSES INC: $5,000 · HealthKIDS AND …THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 · Health+2 more: $1,500 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $9,500 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIP DOUGLAS COUNTY INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesAustin's House: $8,000 · Human ServicesLearning Ally Inc: $4,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesCarson Valley Community Food Closet Inc: $23,002 · Food & NutritionDouglas County Historical Society: $10,200 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC: $500 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 · InternationalSpecial Olympics Nevada: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$346,350Health$38,500Human Services$31,500Food & Nutrition$23,002Arts & Culture$14,700International$8,000Recreation & Sports$6,000

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 budgetCarson Valley Community Food Closet Inc: $23,002 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetVeterans Guest House Inc: $15,250 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSuicide Prevention Network: $14,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetDouglas County Historical Society: $10,200 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP DOUGLAS COUNTY INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada: $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAustin's House: $8,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCASTING FOR RECOVERY: $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS AND HORSES INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCan Do Multiple Sclerosis: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDouglas County Sheriffs Advisory Council: $3,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTahoe Youth and Family Services: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREEL RECOVERY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Carson Valley Community Food Closet Inc ↗
  • Who funds Veterans Guest House Inc ↗
  • Who funds Suicide Prevention Network ↗
  • Who funds Douglas County Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP DOUGLAS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada ↗
  • Who funds Austin's House ↗
  • Who funds CASTING FOR RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Special Olympics Nevada ↗
  • Who funds KIDS AND HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Tahoe Community Found…Community Foundation …Baker Hughes Foundati…Greater Nevada Credit…The E L Cord Foundati…NV Energy Charitable …America's CharitiesThe Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Tahoe Community FoundationNV17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tahoe Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Baker Hughes Foundation · Greater Nevada Credit Union · The E L Cord Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · America's Charities · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Carl & Marilyn Malkmus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carl & Marilyn Malkmus Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Carl & Marilyn Malkmus 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 73 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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