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Marie Eccles Caine Foundation-Russell Family at a glance

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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$497k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$3.5MArts & Culture$1.5MEnvironment$190kFood & Nutrition$70kCivil Rights$60kRecreation & Sports$48kInternational$10kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $475k
  • $250k+2 grants · $747k
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LAKE BONNEVILLE SYMPHONIC SOCIETY$10,000
NORTH CACHE MIDDLE SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%WILLIAM A BURNARD WARMING CENTER: $10k → 12%COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $10k → 12%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 18 repeat orgs$708k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
18

Total granted

$4.8M
$708k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+24%

Still filing today

61%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CV
    CACHE VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $504k · revenue +18%
  • CM
    CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LOGAN INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $240k · revenue +126% · 52% of their budget
  • BC
    BRIGHAM CITY FINE ARTS COUNCIL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $71k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • US
    UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $471k
  • US
    UTAH STATE UNIV - CAINE LYRIC THEATRE
    one grant, 2024 · $60k
  • K7
    KUED 7 ECCLES BROADCAST CENTER U OF U
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Cedar City Music Arts Association

Music & arts performances

Arts & Culture
2
Utah Valley Operafest

Opera Education and Performance

—
3
Utah Chamber Artists

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
5
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Utah Valley Arts

Support various performing arts in utah.

—
7
Utah Voices Inc

Choral Organization

Arts & Culture
8
Excellence in the Community

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Boise Little Theater

Performing arts

Arts & Culture
10
Salt Lake Choral Artists

Through world-class performances, to provide opportunities for performer and listener alike to experience the transcendence, humanity and hope inspired by music.

Arts & Culture
11
Utah Geological Foundation
—
12
Cache Valley Civic Ballet Association Inc

The cache valley school of ballet provides classical ballet training for members of the community and outlying areas

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cache Valley Center for the Arts; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USU CAINE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $2,922,832 · OtherUSU CAINE COLLEGE OF THE ARTSUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $470,600 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $225,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHALLEN AND ALICE STOKES NATURE CENTE: $150,000 · Other+17 more: $411,200 · Other+17 moreCACHE VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $504,464 · Arts & CultureCACHE VALLEY CENTER FOR…CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LOGAN INC: $240,000 · Arts & CultureCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY O…MUSIC THEATRE WEST: $163,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC THEATRE WESTUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $160,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERABRIGHAM CITY FINE ARTS COUNCIL: $70,700 · Arts & CultureBRIGHAM CITY FINE ARTS …+1 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCOMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $10,000 · Human ServicesWilliam A Burnard Warming Center: $10,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $40,000 · Crime & LegalALLEN & ALICE STOKES NATURE CENTER: $30,000 · EnvironmentCACHE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 · InternationalCACHE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementDREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION INC: $4,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,179,632Arts & Culture$1,158,164Human Services$50,000Crime & Legal$40,000Environment$30,000International$30,000Community Improvement$10,000Recreation & Sports$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCACHE VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $504,464 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LOGAN INC: $240,000 over 7y, 52% of budgetMUSIC THEATRE WEST: $163,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $160,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGHAM CITY FINE ARTS COUNCIL: $70,700 over 6y, 19% of budgetBox Elder School District Foundation: $67,500 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLEN & ALICE STOKES NATURE CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE BONNEVILLE SYMPHONIC SOCIETY: $20,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetCACHE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam A Burnard Warming Center: $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCACHE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetIntermountain Deaconess Childrens Services: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLACIER NORDIC CLUB: $4,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
  • Who funds LAKE BONNEVILLE SYMPHONIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CACHE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds William A Burnard Warming Center ↗
  • Who funds CACHE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Intermountain Deaconess Childrens Services ↗
  • Who funds GLACIER NORDIC CLUB ↗
  • Who funds DREAM ADAPTIVE RECREATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC ↗

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.

George S and Dolores …Whitefish Community F…Sorenson Legacy Found…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Marie Eccles Caine Foundation-Russell Family funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marie Eccles Caine Foundation-Russell Family. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    5report 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.
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    How do I get to Marie Eccles Caine Foundation-Russell Family?

    Find your warmest path to Marie Eccles Caine Foundation-Russell Family 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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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