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The Rieschel 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Recreation & Sports$3.3MInternational$1.5MEnvironment$1.3MEducation$1.1MPhilanthropy$409kHuman Services$370kArts & Culture$307kAnimals$228kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $375k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $226k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION$1,000,000
ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES$250,000
MAX S BAUCUS INSTITUTE$75,000
THE ASIA SOCIETY$51,000
THE HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$50,000
PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER$50,000
BUSHLIFE CONSERVANCY$30,000
MY TREES TRUST$30,000
BUMI HILLS ANTI POACHING UNIT$30,000
REED COLLEGE$25,000
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$16,250
GALLATIN RIVER TASK FORCE$15,000
ASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK$15,000
WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE$14,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $365k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WELLNESS IN ACTION: $10k → 10%THE HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $50k → 10%HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $50k → 10%THE HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $50k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $20k → 10%THE HELP CENTER: $20k → 10%MERIT AMERICA: $6k → 14%THE HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC: $20k → 10%THE HELP CENTER: $15k → 10%THE HELP CENTER: $15k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $15k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $15k → 10%BIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY: $10k → 10%THE HELP CENTER: $10k → 10%ROOTS FAMILY COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 10%ROOTS FAMILY COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $10k → 10%BIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY: $10k → 10%ROOTS FAMILY COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 10%BEFRIENDERS: $5k → 10%THE COMMIT FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.4M · 38 repeat orgs$891k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
31

Total granted

$7.4M
$698k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-1%

Still filing today

82%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $194k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • US
    UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +59%
  • AC
    ATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +62%
  • CL
    CLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $300k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • PS
    Podium Society Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +17% · 25% of their budget
  • BI
    BAUCUS INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • RF
    REWILD FKA GLOBAL WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
    one grant, 2023 · $70k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Gallatin Watershed Council Inc

The Gallatin Watershed Council guides collaborative watershed stewardship in the Gallatin Valley for a healthy and productive landscape.

Environment
2
Montana Chamber of Commerce

To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…

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3
The Montana Land Reliance

The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.

Environment
4
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
5
Big Sky Resort Association Inc

Serving as the voice of business, the big sky chamber of commerce champions a healthy economy and works collaboratively with community stakeholders as a conveyor and a catalyst to improve the overall quality of life in the region.

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6
Montanas Outdoor Legacy Foundation

To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.

Environment
7
A Better Big Sky

A better big sky works to inform and engage montanans on issues related to public education, public lands access, voting rights, the environment, sustainable energy, women's health, tribal sovereignty, access to courts, economic justice,…

Community Improvement
8
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
9
Montana State Parks Foundation

The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.

Recreation & Sports
10
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
11
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
12
Wyoming Outdoor Council

The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Washington State China Relations Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsPregnancy Support ServicesAddiction Recovery ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Local History MuseumsHealth Access Advocacy and …Domestic Violence ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesCommunity FoundationsCommunity Food PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%54%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/79
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,486

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 94 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
40/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $2,750,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FO…CROSSCUT MOUNTAIN SPORTS CENTER — $525,000 · Recreation & SportsCROSSCUT MOUNTAIN SPORTS CENTER+2 more — $16,400 · Recreation & SportsATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $1,000,000 · InternationalATLANTIC COUNCIL …THE ASIA SOCIETY — $436,000 · InternationalTHE ASIA SOCIETY+2 more — $20,000 · InternationalREED INSTITUTE — $775,000 · EducationREED INSTITUT…THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $229,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSIT…MINDSPARK LEARNING — $100,000 · EducationMINDSPARK LEA…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $54,000 · Education+1 more — $4,000 · EducationTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY - MONTANA — $375,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY - M…MY TREES TRUST — $80,000 · OtherBAUCUS INSTITUTE — $75,000 · OtherPodium Society Inc — $250,000 · OtherPodium Society IncPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $250,000 · OtherPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT R…BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC — $200,000 · OtherBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT …GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Other+46 more — $852,414 · Other+46 moreCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC — $300,000 · EnvironmentBUSHLIFE CONSERVANCY — $70,000 · EnvironmentGallatin River Task Force — $35,000 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $30,000 · EnvironmentBIG SKY SNO INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE — $24,000 · EnvironmentGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $20,000 · Environment+3 more — $26,400 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $265,000 · PhilanthropyMAX S BAUCUS INSTITUTE — $75,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropyMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,250 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County — $20,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $39,000 · PhilanthropyHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC — $185,000 · Human ServicesHELP CENTER INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesROOTS FAMILY COLLABORATIVE — $30,000 · Human ServicesBIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY — $20,000 · Human Services+4 more — $25,400 · Human Services
Recreation & Sports$3,291,400International$1,456,000Education$1,162,000Other$2,182,414Environment$535,400Philanthropy$484,250Human Services$395,400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $2,750,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetREED INSTITUTE — $775,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSCUT MOUNTAIN SPORTS CENTER — $525,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY — $436,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCLIMATE LEADERSHIP COUNCIL INC — $300,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetYELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $265,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $250,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPodium Society Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA FOUNDATION — $229,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC — $200,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC — $185,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetMINDSPARK LEARNING — $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHELP CENTER INC — $75,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMAX S BAUCUS INSTITUTE — $75,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetBUSHLIFE CONSERVANCY — $70,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK — $60,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetGREATER GALLATIN UNITED WAY INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $54,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN — $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWorking Dogs For Conservation Found — $45,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGallatin River Task Force — $35,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetROOTS FAMILY COLLABORATIVE — $30,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIG SKY SNO INC — $30,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetGARDINER FOOD PANTRY OF PARK COUNTY — $26,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetMONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMONTANA ABORTION ACCESS PROGRAM — $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMINDFUL PHILANTHROPY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLET'S BREAKTHROUGH INC — $24,714 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE — $24,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFORWARD MT FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRURAL RESILIENCE — $20,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetFARESTART — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington State China Relations Fund — $20,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetBIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY — $20,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTangible Hope Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMontana Watershed Coordination Council Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWELLNESS IN ACTION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMONTANA MINDFULNESS PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budget
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.

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.

The Arthur M Blank Fa…The Morgridge Family …One Valley Community …Montana Community Fou…Yellowstone Club Comm…Dennis & Phyllis Wash…The Kendeda FundFirst Interstate Banc…Park County Community…Moonlight Community F…The Community Foundat…Bozeman Deaconess Hea…
The Arthur M Blank Family FoundationGA43.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Morgridge Family Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · Montana Community Foundation Inc · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Kendeda Fund · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Park County Community Foundation · Moonlight Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Bozeman Deaconess Health Services

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 The Rieschel 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
16report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Rieschel Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rieschel 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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