· Private foundation
The Marshall R Matley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $341k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Renown Health Foundation | $50,000 |
| Sierra Nevada Journeys | $40,108 |
| Alzheimers Association | $30,000 |
| Eagle Valley Children's Home | $25,000 |
| COEHD University of Nevada Reno | $25,000 |
| PBS Reno | $25,000 |
| Northern Nevada Hopes | $25,000 |
| COEHD University of Nevada Reno | $25,000 |
| UCP | $18,800 |
| Amplify Life | $15,000 |
| Sierra Kids Foundation | $15,000 |
| Amplify Life | $15,000 |
| Special Olympics Nevada | $15,000 |
| Achieve Tahoe | $14,992 |
| LEAD With Horses | $12,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SNSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS9× · 2017–2025 · $702k · revenue +55%
- UOUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation4× · 2017–2023 · $209k · revenue +35%
- RHRenown Health Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $175k · revenue +251%
Funded once
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRALone grant, 2018 · $55k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO SCHOOL OF MEDone grant, 2019 · $50k
- UCUNR College of Education P21 Programone grant, 2021 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide social, emotional, educational, and psychological support and programs to families of all children diagnosed with life threatening or critical illnesses and provide healing arts and wellness programs to adults touched by cancer…
To make a difference in the lives of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community of Nevada through advocacy, education and serving the diverse community.
NVHC provides health services throughout the State of Nevada. Health services include OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Primary medical, Behavioral Health and dental care services. NVHC operates a mobile mammography clinic, two mobile…
We advocate, we inform, and we connect
The mission of discovery childrens museum is to ignite a lifelong love of learning by fostering a welcoming, vibrant, and inclusive environment where all are invited to engage in playful and educational experiences.
Nami western nv is dedicated to the improvement of the quality of life of individual, families, and communities impacted by mental illness, through education, advocacy, support and awareness.
To improve the care and quality of life for children in nevada who are born with or develop heart problems.
To increase opportunities for home, community and school success for children with disabilities, including those who are at risk or who have serious emotional disturbances, their families and their service providers, through education,…
We develop, deliver and use learning systems that benefit people with disabilities and those who support them. our vision: people with disabilities are visible, valued participants in the community.
The Associations mission is to be the voice and advocate for oral health care in Nevada.
The mission of the Down Syndrome Organization of Southern Nevada is to enlighten the public by promoting a positive understanding of Down syndrome in the community and be a source of support information and education for families and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada Children's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Channel 5 Public Broadcasting Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 8. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 37% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 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. 33 of the 66 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds Renown Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS ↗
- Who funds CARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL RECREATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Sierra Kids Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR ALL NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Northern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEVADA ↗
- Who funds NEVADA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS AND HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Adaptive Riding ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE FLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Sky Tavern Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Special Olympics Nevada ↗
- Who funds For Kids Foundation ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds Lead with Horses ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The E L Cord Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Dermody Properties Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Minnie B Leonette Family Foundation · Renown Health · William N Pennington Foundation · Estelle J Kelsey 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 The Marshall R Matley 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.
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.
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