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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PROPERTY & ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER$50,000
THE HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL$50,000
MY TREES TRUST$30,000
BUSHLIFE CONSERVANCY$30,000
BUMI HILLS ANTI POACHING UNIT$30,000
REED COLLEGE$25,000
MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
MONTANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$16,250
ASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK$15,000
GALLATIN RIVER TASK FORCE$15,000
WESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE$14,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WELLNESS IN ACTION: $10k → 10%THE HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $50k → 10%THE HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $50k → 10%HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $50k → 10%THE HELP CENTER: $20k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $20k → 10%MERIT AMERICA: $6k → 14%THE HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL OF DISTRICT IX INC: $20k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $15k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $15k → 10%THE HELP CENTER: $15k → 10%THE HELP CENTER: $15k → 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $10k → 10%BIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY: $10k → 10%THE HELP CENTER: $10k → 10%BIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY: $10k → 10%ROOTS FAMILY COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 10%ROOTS FAMILY COLLABORATIVE: $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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 94 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
43/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EnvironmentBIG SKY SNO INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $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 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 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 budgetASPEN-ABUSE SUPPORT & PREVENTION EDUCATION NETWORK: $60,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GALLATIN VALLEY INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.8% 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 budgetBIG SKY SNO INC: $30,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROOTS FAMILY COLLABORATIVE: $30,000 over 3y, 7.2% 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 budgetMINDFUL PHILANTHROPY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMONTANA ABORTION ACCESS PROGRAM: $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetLET'S BREAKTHROUGH INC: $24,714 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE: $24,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBIENVENIDOS A GALLATIN VALLEY: $20,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFORWARD MT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRURAL RESILIENCE: $20,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetGALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWashington State China Relations Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetFARESTART: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN CLINIC INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTangible Hope Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIVINGSTON ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMONTANA MINDFULNESS PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 94 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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