· Private foundation
Russell Mace Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
62% of Russell Mace Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Yellowstone Club Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Yellowstone Club Community Foundation | $200,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows | $50,000 |
| Truckee Meadows Community College Foundation | $30,000 |
| Nevada Humane Society | $20,000 |
| Grand Teton Music Festival | $10,000 |
| Friends of Ace High School | $10,000 |
| Drive Toward a Cure for Parkinson's Disease | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NHNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +47%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC2× · 2022–2023 · $35k · revenue +3%
GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- NNNORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +38%
- NCNevada CPA Foundation for Education and Researchone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
Truckee meadows parks foundation strives to improve the lives of n. nevadans by enhancing the quality and sustainability of local parks.
To reduce the impact of cancer on wyoming residents diagnosed with cancer by providing non-medical, charitable financial assistance and by providing free education and screening opportunities to residents not diagnosed with cancer.
To support programs providing the highest quality service to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. these services include a residential program at eagle valley children's home and a respite program provided in the…
To provide social, emotional, educational, and psychological support and programs to families of all children diagnosed with life threatening or critical illnesses and provide healing arts and wellness programs to adults touched by cancer…
Cultivation and celebration of the arts.
The tahoe truckee community foundation brings together trusted partners to align strategies and inspire philanthropy to nurture a resilient community and environment.
Teton Valley Health Care Foundation strives to build mutually beneficial relationships with community members, businesses, and guests that, through their generosity, support a healthy and thriving valley. (Continued on Schedule O). Through…
The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.
The Teton County Search and Rescue Foundation provides direct support, community education, and advocacy for the benefit of the Teton County Search and Rescue volunteers.
Improving life in the st. vrain valley through philanthropy and charitable leadership
Educating children and adults through interactive hands-on exhibits and educational programming.
The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…
How this is measured
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 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUCKEE MEADOWS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Drive Toward a Cure ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Peek Family Charitable Foundation · Willametta K Day Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Russell Mace Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Russell Mace Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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