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Marie Eccles Caine Foundation-Russell Family
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of MARIE ECCLES CAINE FOUNDATION-RUSSELL FAMILY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $475k
- $250k+2 grants · $747k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USU CAINE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | $497,000 |
| CACHE VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $250,000 |
| PBS UTAH | $150,000 |
| UTAH SYMPHONYUTAH OPERA | $100,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LOGAN | $100,000 |
| ALLEN AND ALICE STOKES NATURE CENTE | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| MUSIC THEATRE WEST | $40,000 |
| BOX ELDER SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIO | $30,000 |
| BRIGHAM CITY FINE ARTS COUNCIL | $30,000 |
| NORTH CACHE MIDDLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LAKE BONNEVILLE SYMPHONIC SOCIETY | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CVCACHE VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS7× · 2019–2025 · $504k · revenue +18%
- CMCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LOGAN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $240k · revenue +126% · 52% of their budget
- BCBRIGHAM CITY FINE ARTS COUNCIL6× · 2020–2025 · $71k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- USUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $471k
- USUTAH STATE UNIV - CAINE LYRIC THEATREone grant, 2024 · $60k
- AAALLEN & ALICE STOKES NATURE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +541%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Music & arts performances
Opera Education and Performance
The Utah Chamber Artists (UCA) is a world renowned, not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 to provide audiences with an artistic force that provides a wide variety of music of the highest caliber, presented in the finest manner. UCA…
Support various performing arts in utah.
Choral Organization
Our mission is to create more and better performance opportunities for utah musicians. we produce public performances and offer them free to the public. by offering a wide range of styles and diversity of artists people come together to…
Performing arts
Through world-class performances, to provide opportunities for performer and listener alike to experience the transcendence, humanity and hope inspired by music.
The cache valley school of ballet provides classical ballet training for members of the community and outlying areas
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cache Valley Center for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Music Theatre West. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 36 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 CACHE VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LOGAN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WEST ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds BRIGHAM CITY FINE ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Box Elder School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEN & ALICE STOKES NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE BONNEVILLE SYMPHONIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CACHE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds CACHE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds William A Burnard Warming Center ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services ↗
- Who funds GLACIER NORDIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds DREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC ↗
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: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Whitefish Community Foundation Inc · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Marie Eccles Caine Foundation-Russell Family 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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