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The Marshall R Matley Foundation at a glance

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The Marshall R Matley Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$424k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
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.

Health$980kYouth Development$712kEducation$466kArts & Culture$258kHuman Services$149kRecreation & Sports$141kReligion$55kEmployment$48kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $341k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Special Olympics Nevada$15,000
Amplify Life$15,000
Sierra Kids Foundation$15,000
Amplify Life$15,000
Achieve Tahoe$14,992
LEAD With Horses$12,500
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $2k → 6%NEVADA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 13%NEVADA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 13%Nevada Diabetes Association: $10k → 10%Domestic Violence Resource Center: $10k → 10%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 30 repeat orgs$467k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
27

Total granted

$2.4M
$323k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+33%

Still filing today

63%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • SN
    SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $702k · revenue +55%
  • UO
    University of Nevada Reno Foundation
    4× · 2017–2023 · $209k · revenue +35%
  • RH
    Renown Health Foundation
    5× · 2021–2025 · $175k · revenue +251%

Funded once

  • TE
    TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL
    one grant, 2018 · $55k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO SCHOOL OF MED
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • UC
    UNR College of Education P21 Program
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation

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…

Health
3
Deaf Centers of Nevada

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.

—
4
Nevada Health Centers Inc

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…

Health
5
Reno Sparks Chamber of Commerce

We advocate, we inform, and we connect

—
6
Discovery Children's Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Nami Western Nevada

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.

Public Benefit
8
Children's Heart Foundation

To improve the care and quality of life for children in nevada who are born with or develop heart problems.

Health
9
Nevada P E P Inc

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,…

Unclassified
10
Washoe Ability Resource Center

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.

Human Services
11
Nevada Dental Association

The Associations mission is to be the voice and advocate for oral health care in Nevada.

—
12
Down Syndrome Organization of Southern 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…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada Children's Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 66 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
26/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Renown Health Foundation: $175,000 · OtherRenown Health FoundationEAGLE VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOME: $140,000 · OtherEAGLE VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOMESPECIAL RECREATION SERVICES INC: $75,280 · OtherSPECIAL RECREATION SERVICES INCAlzheimers Association: $65,000 · OtherAlzheimers AssociationIndividual grant recipient: $58,500 · OtherTRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL: $55,000 · OtherCOEHD University of Nevada Reno: $50,000 · OtherUniversity of Nevada Reno College of Education: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO SCHOOL OF MED: $50,000 · OtherUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEVADA: $45,000 · Other+29 more: $371,440 · Other+29 moreSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $702,040 · Youth DevelopmentSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS+1 more: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $208,500 · EducationUniversity …URBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS: $90,036 · EducationURBAN ROOTS…CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $110,000 · Arts & CultureCHANNEL 5…ARTS FOR ALL NEVADA: $62,048 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR …Nevada Museum of Art: $52,500 · Arts & CultureNevada Mu…NOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $82,500 · HealthCARE CHES…Northern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services: $50,000 · HealthNorthern …KIDS AND HORSES INC: $33,820 · HealthKIDS AND …Center for Adaptive Riding: $31,000 · HealthCenter fo…For Kids Foundation: $15,000 · HealthFor Kids …Lead with Horses: $14,500 · HealthLead with…+3 more: $14,650 · Health+3 moreSierra Kids Foundation Inc: $72,500 · Recreation & SportsSky Tavern Inc: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsSpecial Olympics Nevada: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsStephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsNEVADA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesNEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $10,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,135,220Youth Development$712,040Education$298,536Arts & Culture$242,048Health$241,470Recreation & Sports$117,500Human Services$62,000Philanthropy$20,000

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 budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $702,040 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation: $208,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRenown Health Foundation: $175,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN ROOTS GARDEN CLASSROOMS: $90,036 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetCARE CHEST OF SIERRA NEVADA: $82,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSPECIAL RECREATION SERVICES INC: $75,280 over 3y, 12% of budgetSierra Kids Foundation Inc: $72,500 over 7y, 18% of budgetARTS FOR ALL NEVADA: $62,048 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetNevada Museum of Art: $52,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF NEVADA: $45,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNEVADA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS AND HORSES INC: $33,820 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCenter for Adaptive Riding: $31,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetMIRACLE FLIGHTS: $24,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSky Tavern Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFor Kids Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetACHIEVE TAHOE: $14,992 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNOTE-ABLE MUSIC THERAPY SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetStephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME NETWORK OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $2,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetRYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 ↗

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.

The E L Cord Foundati…The Nell J Redfield F…Community Foundation …Dermody Properties Fo…Robert Z Hawkins Foun…John Ben Snow Memoria…NV Energy Charitable …Thelma B & Thomas P H…Minnie B Leonette Fam…Renown HealthWilliam N Pennington …Estelle J Kelsey Foun…
The E L Cord FoundationNV47.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Marshall R Matley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marshall R Matley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%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
    1get no government money at all
    15report 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 Marshall R Matley Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Marshall R Matley Foundation 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 66 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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