matching funds vs funds

matching funds and funds both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
matching funds	Yes	No	No	No
funds	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, funds is a hypernym of matching funds; that is, funds is a word with a broader meaning than matching funds:

matching funds: funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources
funds: assets in the form of money

Other hypernyms of matching funds include cash in hand, finances, monetary resource, pecuniary resource.

matching funds (noun)	funds (noun)
funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources	assets in the form of money