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Tony and Renee Marlon Charitable Foundat at a glance

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Tony and Renee Marlon Charitable Foundat

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$446k
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 2024.

Education$5.8MArts & Culture$2.8MHealth$2.6MPhilanthropy$1.3MEmployment$863kHuman Services$555kYouth Development$371kHousing & Shelter$325kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $442k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $446k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION$446,053
THE SMITH CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$200,000
GOULD ACADEMY$125,000
UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA$125,000
BISHOP GORMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$105,000
ELON UNIVERSITY$100,000
FOUNDATION FOR AN INDEPENDENT TOMORROW$74,966
NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE$65,000
OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION$60,000
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE$50,000
PROJECT 150$50,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION INTL$50,000
CURE4THEKIDS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$45,310
REBEL HOCKEY CLUB$40,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $386k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ATI FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%FAMILY TO FAMILY CONNECTION ISD 13: $1k → 13%COLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%COLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $20k → 13%COLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%COLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%PROJECT 150: $60k → 13%PROJECT 150: $50k → 13%PROJECT 150: $50k → 13%PROJECT 150: $50k → 13%PROJECT 150: $50k → 13%SAFE NEST TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE: $5k → 13%CAPABILITY HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $25k → 13%EASTER SEALS NEVADA: $10k → 13%EASTER SEALS NEVADA: $10k → 13%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

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
UT
MO
AZ
DC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 52 repeat orgs$801k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
12

Total granted

$15M
$607k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+54%

Still filing today

71%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k 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 & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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 LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +18%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +44%
  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • CG
    CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $414k
  • CH
    CHAMINADE HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • BA
    BEGIN AGAIN MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Unlv Medicine

Create a world class center of excellence and innovation for medical education, patient care, and research that prepares nevada's physicians with the most advanced knowledge, treatments, and technologies while serviing heath care needs of…

Health
3
Roseman University of Health Sciences

Roseman university of health sciences advances the health and wellness of the communities we serve by educating current and future generations of health professionals, conducting research and providing patient care. we actively pursue…

Education
4
Unlv Research Foundation

The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…

Science & Tech
5
Nevada Virtual Charter School

At nevada virtual charter school, we will make a difference by meeting the unique needs of our diverse students, preparing them for college and carerr in the 21st century through high quality instruction in our virtual platform.

Education
6
Nevada Children's Foundation Inc

To support programs providing the highest quality service to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. these services include a residential program at eagle valley children's home and a respite program provided in the…

Human Services
7
The Nevada Discovery Museum

Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.

—
8
Clv Strong Start Academy Elementary Schools Inc

The mission of strong start academy elementary school (ssaes) is to provide equitable, high-quality academics as we prepare our bilingual, civic-minded thinkers to maximize their potential in their community and the world. saes is…

Education
9
University of Nevada School of Medicine Integrated Clinical Services Corporation

University of Nevada School of Medicine Integrated Clinical Services, Inc. is the acting oversight board for various non-profit organizations.

—
10
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
11
Fair Government Nevada

To promote fair government practices and for all other legal purposes

—
12
Nevada State High School

To support students in a college environment with personal, academic, and social skills

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southern Nevada; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

50 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. 50 of the 72 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
34/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $2,634,787 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDA…TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $1,040,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY C…GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $450,000 · EducationGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'…GOULD ACADEMY: $410,000 · EducationGOULD ACADEMYEducational Resource Center Inc: $207,521 · EducationTHE CORNERSTONE SCHOOL: $190,000 · EducationCHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $180,000 · Education+3 more: $52,000 · EducationGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHER NEVADA: $507,500 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHER NEV…BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND TONY & RENEE MARLON CHARITABLE GIFT FU: $469,042 · OtherBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FU…CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $414,065 · OtherCHARITABLE GIFT FUNDJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION INTL: $400,000 · OtherJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDAT…NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $323,000 · OtherNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTEBISHOP GORMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $270,000 · OtherBISHOP GORMAN HIGH SCHOOLFRIENDS OF ASAPROSAR: $207,000 · OtherSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA: $291,000 · OtherSPREAD THE WORD NEVADACross Roads House Inc: $175,000 · OtherTHREE SQUARE: $170,000 · Other+24 more: $1,478,093 · Other+24 moreUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $1,035,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY & OPER…The Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureThe Smith Center for…PARK CITY PERFORMING ARTS: $380,000 · Arts & CulturePARK CITY PERFORMING…DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $150,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S…+5 more: $227,750 · Arts & Culture+5 moreVMSN INC: $360,000 · HealthVMSN INCUMC FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · HealthUMC FOUNDA…FREEDOM HOUSE SOBER LIVING: $300,000 · HealthFREEDOM HO…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $153,000 · HealthCROHN'S & …Greater Seacoast Community Health: $125,000 · HealthGreater Se…ALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES: $100,000 · HealthALLIANCE F…BEGIN AGAIN MINISTRIES: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $45,000 · HealthPROJECT 150: $260,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $225,000 · Human ServicesCOLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesCAPABILITY HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $45,000 · Human Services+3 more: $11,000 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $430,000 · PhilanthropyVIRGIN UNITE USA INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR AN INDEPENDENT TOMORROW: $355,966 · Employment
Education$5,164,308Other$4,704,700Arts & Culture$2,792,750Health$1,483,000Human Services$611,000Philanthropy$455,000Employment$355,966

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 LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $2,634,787 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $1,040,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $1,035,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts: $1,000,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $450,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $430,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGOULD ACADEMY: $410,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetPARK CITY PERFORMING ARTS: $380,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetVMSN INC: $360,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AN INDEPENDENT TOMORROW: $355,966 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetUMC FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $323,000 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE SOBER LIVING: $300,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA: $291,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT 150: $260,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $225,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEducational Resource Center Inc: $207,521 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF ASAPROSAR: $207,000 over 7y, 25% of budgetTHE CORNERSTONE SCHOOL: $190,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCross Roads House Inc: $175,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $170,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $153,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $150,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetREBEL HOCKEY CLUB: $125,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetGreater Seacoast Community Health: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL HEALTH PARTNERS - US INC: $110,000 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBISHOP GORMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $105,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC: $90,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC: $90,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCOLLABORATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NEON MUSEUM: $69,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHENDERSON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $55,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetFamilies First of the Greater Seacoast: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCAPABILITY HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVEGAS STRONGER: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetST ROSE DOMINICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HORIZONS CENTER FOR LEARNING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEVADA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ORGANIZATION OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetATI FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAFE NESTTEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK FOUNDATION INC: $3,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY TO FAMILY ISD 13: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
  • Who funds The Smith Center for the Performing Arts ↗
  • Who funds GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOULD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds PARK CITY PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds VMSN INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR AN INDEPENDENT TOMORROW ↗
  • Who funds UMC FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE SOBER LIVING ↗
  • Who funds SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT 150 ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
  • Who funds Educational Resource Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ASAPROSAR ↗
  • Who funds THE CORNERSTONE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CHAMINADE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Cross Roads House Inc ↗
  • Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds REBEL HOCKEY CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Greater Seacoast Community Health ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PARTNERS - US INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHADE TREE INC ↗
  • Who funds BISHOP GORMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LAS VEGAS PHILHARMONIC ↗

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.

Mgm Resorts FoundationNevada Community Foun…Vegas Golden Knights …Engelstad Family Foun…United Way of Souther…Canarelli Family Foun…Wynn Resorts Foundati…Cashman Family Founda…NV Energy Charitable …Mondays DarkAndrew Family Foundat…Bny Mellon Charitable…
Mgm Resorts FoundationNV35.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mgm Resorts Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Engelstad Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Canarelli Family Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Cashman Family Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Mondays Dark · Andrew Family Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund

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 Tony and Renee Marlon Charitable Foundat funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tony and Renee Marlon Charitable Foundat. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 Tony and Renee Marlon Charitable Foundat 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 72 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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