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American Foundation of Utah Inc

To promote and facilitate the privatization of philanthropy

$2.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
46
Itemized grants FY2025
41
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$2.4M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
33 to 56
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$39M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations American Foundation of Utah Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsReligionEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving44$2.3M20%
FY202441$2.4M22%
FY202344$2.3M20%
FY202247$2.5M34%
FY202156$2.3M52%
FY202033$1.3Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.7MHuman Services$3.5MHealth$2.7MHousing & Shelter$2.2MAnimals$1.1MEducation$1.1MReligion$984kEnvironment$628kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Colette's Children's Home Inc$1,555,000510%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$1,350,00061%
The Pachamama Alliance$580,32332%
Goats of Anarchy Inc$553,200610%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group$525,00060%
High Hopes Neurological Recovery Group$503,00049%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of San Diego$500,00062%
The Salvation Army$500,0006n/a
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints$397,5616n/a
National Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias$380,00066%
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All grantees of American Foundation of Utah Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Colette's Children's Home Inc$1,555,000510%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$1,350,00061%
The Pachamama Alliance$580,32332%
Goats of Anarchy Inc$553,200610%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group$525,00060%
High Hopes Neurological Recovery Group$503,00049%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of San Diego$500,00062%
The Salvation Army$500,0006n/a
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints$397,5616n/a
National Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias$380,00066%
Operation Pay It Forward$350,000611%
FAMILY HOPE dba ELIZABETH HOUSE$335,00064%
Union Rescue Mission$305,00060%
There With Care of the Bay Area$300,00045%
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc$295,00060%
Meals-On-Wheels Greater San Diego Inc$240,00061%
Lutheran High School Association of Orange County$225,0005n/a
Greek Orthodox Church of Greater Salt Lake$224,4505n/a
Paws for Life K9 Rescue$205,00042%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$200,00021%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc$176,00031%
Echoes of Hope$174,000611%
Wasatch Jordan Education Foundation$150,000153%
Sober Solutions$150,000312%
Friends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa$150,00021%
California Labradors Retrievers & More Rescue$140,00062%
There With Care$130,00022%
Ronald McDonald House Charities - Bay Area$125,00021%
Friends of Casa Hogar$125,00016%
Promises2kids Foundation$125,00040%
Heifer International Foundation$123,00011%
Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Inst$117,00044%
Project Independence$110,00031%
Sha Ar Zahav$89,0855n/a
Hands for Hope$79,00054%
Discover Cheyenne Inc$60,000111%
Border Missions$60,000132%
Utah Food Bank$54,50040%
Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Endowment Fund Incorporated$50,0001n/a
Maple Grove Cemetery Associat$50,0001n/a
Ruff Haven$49,000211%
Catalyst Family Inc$45,00030%
Mercy Chefs Inc$45,00030%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$45,00040%
Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City Real Estate Corporation$40,0002n/a
Puppies Behind Bars Inc$40,00030%
Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary$40,0003n/a
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy$37,50040%
Voices 4 Freedom$37,0921n/a
St James Cathedral$35,0002n/a
Ij & Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center$35,00030%
Ronald McDonald House Global$35,00010%
Srs Raise the Roof Foundation Inc$35,00012%
Friends of Switchpoint Inc$35,00020%
Together We Rise$32,50030%
American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc$30,89340%
Global Interdependence Center$30,78325%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$28,19330%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$25,00020%
Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum$25,00012%
Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center$25,00010%
Congaree Foundation$22,68011%
National Special Forces Green Beret Mem Foundation$20,3912n/a
Utah Valley University Foundation Inc$20,00020%
Donnie Edwards Best Defense Foundation$20,00013%
Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao Do Vegetal$20,0001n/a
The Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation$20,00021%
Hillside School and Learning Center$20,00021%
Live Your Dream$20,00024%
Arawaka Inc$20,0001n/a
Paws for Purple Hearts$20,00010%
University of Washington Foundation$20,00010%
Maak Impact Inc$20,0001n/a
Meso Foundation$19,882128%
San Diego Police Officers Association Foundation$18,00023%
Mountain of Faith Lutheran Church$16,8003n/a
Humanitarian Experience Inc$16,58120%
Community Nursing Service$15,00010%
Park City Miners Baseball Foundation$15,000144%
Park City Community Church$13,0002n/a
Mnw Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Ga Inc$10,00011%
Kinder Way Farm Sanctuary$10,0001n/a
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington$10,00010%
Equality Utah Foundation$10,00011%
Hapi Trails - Horse Adoption Program Incorporated$10,00018%
Honnold Foundation$10,00011%
San Diego Humane Society and Spca$10,00010%
Church of the Nazarene Inc$10,0001n/a
Rancho Relaxo Inc$10,00011%
Newport Harbor Educational Foundation C/O Emily Evans$10,00011%
West Hills High School Founda$10,0001n/a
University Presbyterian Church$10,0001n/a
Our Rescue$10,00010%
Youth Winter Sports Alliance$10,00010%
Friends of Robinson Gardens Inc$10,00012%
Intermountain Therapy Animals$7,50011%
The Hope Alliance$7,0261n/a
Jewish Family Service$6,80010%
University of Utah$6,5001n/a
Huntsman Cancer Foundation$6,15010%
Tony Finau Foundation Fka Finau Youth Foundation$6,00012%
Iocc Foundation Incorporated$6,00016%
Christian Assembly L a Foursquare Church$5,5251n/a
Wasatch Community Gardens$5,05010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

American Foundation of Utah Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColette's Children's Home Inc: $1,555,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $1,350,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $580,323 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetGoats of Anarchy Inc: $553,200 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group: $525,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Hopes Neurological Recovery Group: $503,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of San Diego: $500,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetNational Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias: $380,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetOperation Pay It Forward: $350,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetFAMILY HOPE dba ELIZABETH HOUSE: $335,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetUnion Rescue Mission: $305,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThere With Care of the Bay Area: $300,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetMarine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc: $295,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMeals-On-Wheels Greater San Diego Inc: $240,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPaws for Life K9 Rescue: $205,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSt Baldrick's Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $176,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEchoes of Hope: $174,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetWasatch Jordan Education Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetSober Solutions: $150,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetFriends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCalifornia Labradors Retrievers & More Rescue: $140,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetThere With Care: $130,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities - Bay Area: $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of Casa Hogar: $125,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetPromises2kids Foundation: $125,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHeifer International Foundation: $123,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetChannel Islands Marine & Wildlife Inst: $117,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetProject Independence: $110,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHands for Hope: $79,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetDiscover Cheyenne Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBorder Missions: $60,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetUtah Food Bank: $54,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRuff Haven: $49,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCatalyst Family Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Chefs Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPuppies Behind Bars Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSanta Catalina Island Conservancy: $37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIj & Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSrs Raise the Roof Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFriends of Switchpoint Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTogether We Rise: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc: $30,893 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Interdependence Center: $30,783 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $28,193 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 80.

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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 Louis and Gladyce Foster Family FoundationCA32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Louis and Gladyce Foster Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Park City Community Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Making a Difference Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Ihc Health Services Inc · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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.

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Find your warmest path to American Foundation of Utah Inc 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.

About American Foundation of Utah Inc

How much does American Foundation of Utah Inc give?
American Foundation of Utah Inc reported 46 itemized grants totaling $2,428,175, out of $2,533,130 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 56 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does American Foundation of Utah Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (22%), Human Services (20%), Health (16%).
Who are American Foundation of Utah Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Colette's Children's Home Inc ($1.6M), Semper Fi & America's Fund ($1.4M), The Pachamama Alliance ($580k).
Does American Foundation of Utah Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Foundation of Utah Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Louis and Gladyce Foster Family Foundation, The Community Foundation of Utah, Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation.
Where is American Foundation of Utah Inc based?
American Foundation of Utah Inc is based in AZ.

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 113 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 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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