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Achelis Foundation Dba Steven B Achelis Foundation

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.

$190k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of ACHELIS FOUNDATION DBA STEVEN B ACHELIS FOUNDATION’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.

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
$5,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMPOWER MALI$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE$10,000
LIFTING HAND INTERNATIONAL$10,000
STEMBLAZERS$10,000
BLESSING HANDS$10,000
Paul Sherwen Project$10,000
TANDIKA REVITALIZATION FUND$10,000
Protect Democracy Project$10,000
GIRLS SCOUTS OF UTAH$9,000
Catalino Tapia Scholarship Foundati$8,000
GIRL RISING$7,000
ROWLAND HALL ST MARKS$6,500
SAVE OUR CANYONS$5,170
RIGHT TO PLAY$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $2k → 8%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $2k → 8%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $2k → 8%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $1k → 8%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $1k → 8%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $1k → 8%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $1k → 8%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $1k → 8%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $1k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $5k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $4k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $2k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $2k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $2k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $2k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $1k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $1k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $1k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $4k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $3k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $3k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $3k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $4k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $4k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $4k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $4k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $3k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $3k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $3k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $3k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $3k → 8%SOAP2HOPE: $3k → 8%SOAP2HOPE: $3k → 8%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

MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$868k · 53 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
20

Total granted

$868k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+8%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther

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

  • CC
    CITIZENS COMMITTEE TO SAVE OUR
    9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +42%
  • CT
    CATALINO TAPIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATI
    9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +360%
  • SW
    SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +201%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF JACKSON COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +276%
  • GI
    GWEN IFILL FUND FOR JOURNALISM EXCE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • HS
    HIGH SCHOOL TO COLLEGE GUIDE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -83%

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
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
4
Equality Utah Foundation

To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.

Civil Rights
5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
Utah Foundation

Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…

Public Benefit
7
Compass Science Communication Inc

Compass champions, connects, and supports diverse scientist leaders to improve the well-being of people and nature.

Science & Tech
8
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
9
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
10
The Community Foundation of Utah

We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.

Philanthropy
11
Wyofile

Wyofile is an independent, nonprofit news service focused on the people, places and policy of wyoming. recognizing the rapid decline in resources among traditional news outlets, wyofile offers in-depth coverage of complicated subjects and…

Arts & Culture
12
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Women Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paul Sherwen Project Inc. 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 Mentoring ProgramsCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…United Way AffiliatesPolicy Research and AdvocacySchool District FoundationsAddiction Recovery ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Women & Girls Leadership De…
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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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%0/59
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,506

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

53 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 83 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)
51/53
Grantees still filing
36/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITIZENS COMMITTEE TO SAVE OUR — $50,750 · OtherCITIZENS COMMITTEE TO SAVE OURROWLAND HALL ST MARKS — $44,000 · OtherROWLAND HALL ST MARKSIndividual grant recipient — $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND — $32,500 · OtherTHURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUNDTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $31,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY100 FRIENDS PROJECTS — $25,000 · OtherCOLORADO WOMEN'S EDUCATION FOUNDATI — $25,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAH — $21,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH — $18,000 · Other+43 more — $238,656 · Other+43 moreCATALINO TAPIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATI — $48,000 · EducationCATALINO TAPI…MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION — $31,000 · EducationMIKVA CHALLEN…The Ann Richards School Foundation — $25,000 · EducationThe Ann Richa…HIGH SCHOOL TO COLLEGE GUIDE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $4,500 · Education+2 more — $1,921 · EducationGirl Rising — $45,000 · InternationalGirl RisingBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD — $24,000 · InternationalBUILDING YOU…GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $16,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND …Lifting Hands International — $10,000 · InternationalLifting Hand…Empower Mali — $10,000 · InternationalEmpower Mali+2 more — $4,000 · InternationalSPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC — $36,000 · Recreation & SportsSPORTS HUMA…SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS — $32,500 · Recreation & SportsSOCCER WITH…Womens Sports Foundation — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsWomens Spor…FRESH AIR FUND — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsFRESH AIR F…THE ROAD HOME — $26,500 · Human ServicesCrossroads Urban Center — $20,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE — $13,000 · Human ServicesTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT — $12,000 · Human ServicesSOAP2HOPE — $6,000 · Human ServicesPAUL SHERWEN PROJECT INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE — $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,500 · PhilanthropyFIT TO RECOVER INC — $13,400 · HealthSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC — $9,000 · HealthHealth in Harmony — $1,000 · Health+2 more — $300 · Health
Other$520,906Education$115,421International$109,000Recreation & Sports$98,500Human Services$77,500Philanthropy$51,500Health$23,700

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 budgetCITIZENS COMMITTEE TO SAVE OUR — $50,750 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetCATALINO TAPIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATI — $48,000 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetGirl Rising — $45,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC — $36,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS — $32,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION — $31,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $31,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL SHERWEN PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME — $26,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO WOMEN'S EDUCATION FOUNDATI — $25,000 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetThe Ann Richards School Foundation — $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD — $24,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE — $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Sports Foundation — $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center — $20,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH — $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAUSTIN KIDS CAN — $16,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIT TO RECOVER INC — $13,400 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE — $13,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT — $12,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmpower Mali — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGLOBAL EDUCATION FUND — $8,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSageland Collaborative — $7,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOUTDOOR AFRO — $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOAP2HOPE — $6,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHIGH SCHOOL TO COLLEGE GUIDE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $4,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHACK — $4,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC — $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC — $1,818 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBIKE UTAH — $1,800 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHealth in Harmony — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIRLINK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPA MOUNTAIN INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChanning Hall — $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE TO SAVE OUR
  • Who funds CATALINO TAPIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATI
  • Who funds Girl Rising
  • Who funds SPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC
  • Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS
  • Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds PAUL SHERWEN PROJECT INC
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME
  • Who funds COLORADO WOMEN'S EDUCATION FOUNDATI
  • Who funds The Ann Richards School Foundation
  • Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE
  • Who funds Womens Sports Foundation
  • Who funds Crossroads Urban Center
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH
  • Who funds AUSTIN KIDS CAN
  • Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC
  • Who funds FIT TO RECOVER INC
  • Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE
  • Who funds THE ART OF YOGA PROJECT
  • Who funds COLOROFCHANGEORG
  • Who funds FRESH AIR FUND
  • Who funds Lifting Hands International
  • Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC
  • Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT
  • Who funds Empower Mali
  • Who funds SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC

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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT29.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Ssir Cares Inc · The Community Foundation of Utah · Steiner Foundation Inc · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati

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 Achelis Foundation Dba Steven B Achelis 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 83 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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