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Achelis Foundation Dba Steven B Achelis Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$192kYouth Development$152kEnvironment$97kHuman Services$82kInternational$69kPublic Benefit$68kPhilanthropy$64kRecreation & Sports$63kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE$10,000
EMPOWER MALI$10,000
LIFTING HAND INTERNATIONAL$10,000
BLESSING HANDS$10,000
Paul Sherwen Project$10,000
Protect Democracy Project$10,000
STEMBLAZERS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
TANDIKA REVITALIZATION FUND$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
BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD$5,000
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

+62%
+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
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

  • CC
    CITIZENS COMMITTEE TO SAVE OUR
    9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +42%
  • CT
    CATALINO TAPIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATI
    9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +360%
  • SH
    SPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +119%

Funded once

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

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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Women Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 83 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
37/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 …Empower Mali: $10,000 · InternationalEmpower MaliLifting Hands International: $10,000 · InternationalLifting Hand…+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 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 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $31,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 9y, 0.1% 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 budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $20,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Sports Foundation: $20,000 over 5y, 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 budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $12,000 over 9y, 0.3% 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 budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $3,000 over 5y, 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 budgetAIRLINK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealth in Harmony: $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
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 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MIKVA CHALLENGE GRANT FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 Crossroads Urban Center ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗
  • Who funds Womens Sports Foundation ↗
  • 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 COLOROFCHANGEORG ↗
  • Who funds THE ART OF YOGA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
  • Who funds PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Empower Mali ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Lifting Hands International ↗
  • Who funds SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…George S and Dolores …David Kelby Johnson M…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Dominion Energy Chari…Marriner S Eccles Fou…Ssir Cares IncThe Community Foundat…Steiner Foundation IncWillard L Eccles Char…Silicon Valley Commun…Pacificorp Foundation…
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

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 Achelis Foundation Dba Steven B Achelis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Achelis Foundation Dba Steven B Achelis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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, 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.

    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 83 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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