Martis Camp Community Foundation
Truckee, CA · EIN 27-3532704. Reported 149 grants totalling $3,400,545 to 51 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Martis Camp Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 85% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,400 and the largest $300,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Nevada Childrens Museum | Truckee, CA | $328,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Truckee-Donner Recreation & Park District | Truckee, CA | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Truckee Donner Land Trust | Truckee, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation | Truckee, CA | $222,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Adventure Risk Challenge | Truckee, CA | $135,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southbend United Methodist Church | Gainesville, GA | $130,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sagehen Outdoor Eduction Prog | Truckee, CA | $110,000 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tahoe Forest Health System Foundation | Truckee, CA | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Truckee Library Inc | Truckee, CA | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Stephen J Wampler Foundation Inc | Coronado, CA | $95,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Clean Up the Cayes | Olympia, WA | $85,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tahoe Fund | Tahoe City, CA | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Truckee Trails Foundation | Truckee, CA | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls of North Lake Tahoe | Kings Beach, CA | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| High Fives Nonprofit Foundation | Truckee, CA | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tahoe School of Music | Truckee, CA | $64,450 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trails and Vistas Inc | Truckee, CA | $60,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Truckee Roundhouse | Truckee, CA | $57,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cast Hope | Chico, CA | $53,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Aim High for High School | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Crisis Intervention Services | Incline Vlg, NV | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Humane Society of Truckee Tahoe Inc | Truckee, CA | $47,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Send It | Truckee, CA | $44,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Headwaters Science Institute | Soda Springs, CA | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sos Outreach | Avon, CO | $38,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sierra Business Council | Truckee, CA | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Truckee Community Cares Inc | Truckee, CA | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Soroptimist International of the Americas Inc | Reno, NV | $37,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Arts for the Schools | Kings Beach, CA | $35,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Achieve Tahoe | Truckee, CA | $33,395 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue Team Inc Po Box 7703 | Tahoe City, CA | $31,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Biking for a Better World Inc | Olympic Vly, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Charitysmith Nonprofit Foundation | Truckee, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Elevation Truckee | Truckee, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sierra Senior Services | Truckee, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Truckee - Tahoe Soaring Association | Truckee, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Truckee-Donner Recreated & Pa | Truckee, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tahoe Institute for Natural Science | Incline Vlg, NV | $29,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tahoe Cross-Country Ski Education Association Inc | Tahoe City, CA | $27,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tahoe Food Hub | Truckee, CA | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tahoe Expedition Academy Inc | Kings Beach, CA | $23,700 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| UC Davis Environ Research Ctr | Incline Village, NV | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Granite Wellness Centers | Roseville, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tahoe Ability Program | Truckee, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Truckee Charter School Foundation | Truckee, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Barton Memorial Hospital Foundation | Zephyr Cove, NV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| C a T T Community Project | Truckee, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Little Gems of the Sierra Preschool Inc | Truckee, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Valley Community Foundation | Chico, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Slow Food USA Inc | Truckee, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
40 of 51 (78%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Kidzone Museum
EXHIBIT & EXPANSION FUNDING - Tahoe Truckee Community Found
COMMUNITY SUPPORT & FOREST FEATURES - Tahoe Forest Health Found
COVID 19 EMERGENCY RESPONSE - Sierra Community House
SHARED LOCATION FOR FAMILY SERVICES - Adventure Risk Challenge
LITERACY/OUTDOOR PROGRAM SUPPORT - Gateway Mountain Center
SUPPORT COMMNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERV
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 of 51 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 28 | $388,000 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 41 | $962,400 | $12,000 |
| 2023 | 40 | $1,000,800 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 40 | $1,049,345 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
88% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Martis Camp Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 38 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 7951 Fleur Du Lac Drive, Truckee, CA, 96161.
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