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MacNeel Pierce Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOU | $1,700 |
| NEVADA SPCA | $1,700 |
| PROJECT 150 | $1,300 |
| HEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE LAS VEGAS | $1,100 |
| THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $1,039 |
| LAS VEGAS VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $546 |
| NOAHS ANIMAL HOUSE PET SANCTUARY | $500 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANTUARY | $480 |
| POPPY FOUNDATION | $388 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN NEV | $300 |
| HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA WORC | $300 |
| OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE ASSOCIATION FOR RETA | $300 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVA | $200 |
| NEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION O | $61 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to be an innovative regional leader in responsible treatment of homeless dogs and cats, primarily through their rescue and placement in forever loving homes and by promoting spaying and neutering to control pet…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
At humane society silicon valley, our mission is to save lives, keep families together, and create a better future for pets and their people.(see schedule o for continuation)
To end the abuse and neglect of companion animals in our service area through education, rescuing, fostering, rehoming, and spay/neuter programs.
Rescue, rehab, and place abandoned dogs
Assist local animal shelters by rescuing homeless, abused, and abandoned pets by providing medical care, fostering, and adoption services.
The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.
Catnip Cats & Kittens provides housing, vet care and spay/neuter to pets in our care. We housed over 150 dogs and cats in 2020 providing a safe sanctuary and reducing unwanted pets in the community.
The society's mission is to ensure responsible treatment of animals, to decrease the number of abused and unwanted animals, and to conduct community programs which promote quality animal care
The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community
homeless animal shelter
Ark-Valley Humane Society's (AVHS) Mission is ensuring the welfare of companion animals through compassion and care. AVHS operated an open-admission animal shelter for Chaffee County, Colorado.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 150 ↗
- Who funds HEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAS VEGAS VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE POPPY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mgm Resorts Foundation · Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation · The Si Redd & Tamara Redd Charitable Foundation · Humane Network · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Humane World for Animals Inc · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petsmart Charities Inc · Carmax Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization MacNeel Pierce Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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