Community Impact
Our Grant Making Impact in 2019!
Truckee Trails Foundation – Martis Valley Trail Restoration Analysis – $14,980
The Nature Fund – Collaboration between the Martis Fund and the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation – $60,000 matching grant
Sierra Community House – Housing Advocacy and Case Management Programs –$400,000 for two years
Emergency Warning Center – Emergency Shelter Funding – $15,000
Truckee River Watershed Council – Long Term Restoration Funding Support –$425,000/year for three years beginning 2020 – 2022
Conservation Science Partners – Eastern Placer County Landscape Scale Conservation and Restoration Assessment and Data Repository – $100,000
The Martis Fund has invested over $11 million to non-profit organizations in the Martis Valley region through funding Open Space Conservation, Habitat & Forest Management & Restoration, and Workforce Housing grants throughout the Martis Valley and greater Placer County region since 2006.
Workforce Housing Grants
Invested over $3.9 million through housing efforts in our community
Down Payment Assistance Program
Workforce housing is a major priority for the Martis Fund. Since 2016, the Martis Fund has invested over $1.7 million into our Down Payment Assistance Program (DPAP) and has provided down payment assistance financing to 38 families who live and work in our region. As of January 2020, the Martis Fund has approved an additional $500,000 for the program.
The DPAP program works with local families who live and work in the TTUSD school district, with income levels up to 180% AMI, by providing a loan up to 10% of the purchase price (up to $50,000). For more information about the program guidelines, please contact the Martis Fund Down Payment Assistance Program Administrator, Gina Jones, with Sierra Business Council: gkjones@sierrabusiness.org. To learn more about the program please visit sierrabusiness.org.
Workforce Housing Grant Funding Support
The Martis Fund has invested over $800K in additional grants supporting workforce housing efforts in our community such as: Emergency Assistance Funding – Housing Advocacy and Case Management Programs through the Sierra Community House (formerly Family Resource Center of Truckee); Emergency Warming Center in providing support to homeless individuals and families in need of shelter and supportive services; and Community House, a project of the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation.
Truckee Railyard – Artist Lofts
We are excited to announce that the Martis Fund has provided $1.4 million to the Truckee Railyard/Artist Lofts project through the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation’s Regional Housing Solutions Fund. This project supports housing for our local workforce and will provide 71 low-income units for our community. The project broke ground in August 2019. For more information about the project please visit truckeerailyard.com.
Habitat and Forest Management and Restoration Fund Grants
Invested over $3.75 million into projects supporting protecting and restoring our watersheds, habitats, and trails throughout our region.
Conservation Science Partners
Eastern Placer County Landscape Scale Conservation and Restoration Assessment and Data Repository.
Truckee Trails Foundation
These funds supported the Elizabethtown Trail and Restoration Project, Sawtooth Ridge Environmental Constraints Analysis, and Martis Valley Trail Restoration Analysis
The Nature Fund – Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation
These funds supported the Nature Fund grants for conservation and habitat restoration in the Martis Valley region.
Truckee River Watershed Council
The Martis Fund has invested over $2.4 million into watershed and habitat restoration projects with the Truckee River Watershed Council. Projects include:
- Adopt-A-Stream Water Quality Monitoring
- Main stem Martis Creek restoration
- Capacity building to fulfill Habitat and Forest programs
- Middle Martis Creek Wetland Restoration & Martis Estates Restoration
- Matching grants for TRWC’s Together for the Truckee Society
- Support for the Tahoe Truckee Conservation & Stewardship Fund
- Truckee River Weed Warriors Program & continuation funding
- Matching grant to support the Martis Valley Watershed Assessment
- Trail Realignment and Meadow Restoration along Martis Creek
- Martis Valley restoration projects
- Martis Dam Assessment
- Watershed Assessment Grant
- State Water Plan Tracking
Mountain Area Preservation Foundation
These funds supported a matching grant for the Trout Creek Restoration Project, Pocket Park and a Bark Beetle study.
South Yuba River Citizens League
These funds supported the Van Norden Meadow Restoration Project.
Sugar Pine Foundation
These funds supported Sugar Pine Restoration in Eastern Placer County.
Tahoe Fund
These funds supported matching grants for the North Shore Sugar Pine Reforestation & survey, and Stewardship Messaging.
Truckee Donner Land Trust
These funds supported a study of the Martis Valley deer herd.
Open Space Conservation Fund Grants
Invested over $3.7 million in land protection and habitat restoration in our region
Truckee River Watershed Council
These funds supported the Dry Lake/East Martis Restoration Project.
Truckee Donner Land Trust
In 2007, $3.53 million supported the purchase of the 1,481 acre undeveloped Waddle Ranch east of Highway 267. Now open to the public, Waddle Ranch provides miles of cross-country skiing, hiking, and biking trails and contributes to the creation of a ten-mile open space corridor for wildlife movement and recreation. Additionally, a project to study deer migration was supported through the Martis Fund.
