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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.

$10k
Granted FY2017
14
Grants FY2017
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$87k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
02

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT 150: $1k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVA: $200 → 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.
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 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
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Northern Nv

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…

Unclassified
2
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
3
Humane Society Silicon Valley

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)

Animals
4
Chama Valley Humane Society

To end the abuse and neglect of companion animals in our service area through education, rescuing, fostering, rehoming, and spay/neuter programs.

Animals
5
Nevada Boxer Rescue

Rescue, rehab, and place abandoned dogs

Animals
6
Vegas Pet Rescue Project

Assist local animal shelters by rescuing homeless, abused, and abandoned pets by providing medical care, fostering, and adoption services.

Animals
7
Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
8
Catnip Cats and Kittens

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.

Animals
9
Cascades Humane Society Inc

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

Animals
10
Lawrence Humane Society

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

Animals
11
Golden Ark

homeless animal shelter

Animals
12
Ark-Valley Humane Society Inc

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nevada Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; 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.
03the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 13 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,761 · AnimalsNEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSHEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INC: $1,100 · AnimalsHEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INCTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $1,039 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATIONLAS VEGAS VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $546 · AnimalsLAS VEGAS VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETYTHE POPPY FOUNDATION: $388 · AnimalsTHE POPPY FOUNDATIONNOAHS ANIMAL HOUSE PET SANCTUARY: $500 · OtherNOAHS ANIMAL HOUSE PE…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SANTUARY: $480 · OtherBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL S…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHERN NEV: $300 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB O…OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE ASSOCIATION FOR RETA: $300 · OtherOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE A…HELP OF SOUTHERN NEVADA WORC: $300 · OtherHELP OF SOUTHERN NEVA…NEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH: $1,700 · Housing & ShelterNEVADA PARTNERSHIP …PROJECT 150: $1,300 · Human ServicesPROJECT 150CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $200 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIE…
Animals$4,834Other$1,880Housing & Shelter$1,700Human Services$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,761 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEVADA PARTNERSHIP FOR HOMELESS YOUTH: $1,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT 150: $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $1,039 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAS VEGAS VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $546 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POPPY FOUNDATION: $388 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 FoundationNV17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 MacNeel Pierce Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from MacNeel Pierce Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to MacNeel Pierce Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to MacNeel Pierce Foundation 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 13 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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