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· Public charity

American Foundation of Utah Inc

To promote and facilitate the privatization of philanthropy

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 46 grants below total $2,428,175, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,533,130 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $104,955 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $514k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $580k
$35,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Colettes Children Home$300,000
PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE$280,323
Semper Fi Fund$200,000
Heifer lnternationalWorld Ar$123,000
Make A Wish San Diego$100,000
Childrens Hospital LOS ANGEL$100,000
Salvation Army ORANG COUNTY$80,000
Natl Fndn For Ectodermal D$75,000
There With Care of the Bay Ar$75,000
Operation Pay It Forward$75,000
Meals On Wheels$70,000
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR CHARI$66,007
Paws for Life K9 Rescue$65,000
Orange Lutheran High School$60,000
Ronald McDonald House Chariti$60,000
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 (FY20–25, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Project Independence: $45k → 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $55k → 14%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $15k → 17%Srs Raise the Roof Foundation: $35k → 5%MAAK IMPACT: $20k → 8%Friends of Switchpoint: $25k → 10%There With Care: $75k → 12%Catholic Community Services: $10k → 9%MERCY CHEFS: $25k → 20%Friends of Casa Hogar: $125k → 13%Project Independence: $45k → 10%Union Rescue Mission: $50k → 14%Puppies Behind Bars: $15k → 17%Friends of Switchpoint: $10k → 10%THERE WITH CARE: $55k → 12%Mercy Chefs: $10k → 20%PROJECT INDEPENDENCE: $20k → 10%Union Rescue Mission: $50k → 14%Puppies Behind Bars: $10k → 17%MERCY CHEFS: $10k → 20%Union Rescue Mission: $50k → 14%Union Rescue Mission: $50k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SER: $46k → 10%Union Rescue Mission: $50k → 14%Jewish Family & Childrens Se: $26k → 10%Jewish Family Services of SAN: $25k → 10%Jewish Family & Childrens Se: $18k → 10%Hands4Hope LA: $20k → 14%Hands4Hope LA: $17k → 14%Hands4Hope LA: $17k → 14%Hands4Hope LA: $15k → 14%Hands4Hope LA: $10k → 14%Crewe Endowment Foundation: $3.3M → 8%Donnie Edwards Best Defense F: $20k → 11%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

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WI
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CA
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CO
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AZ
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GA
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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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 59 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
37

Total granted

$12M
$935k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+14%

Still filing today

80%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +56%
  • GO
    GOATS OF ANARCHY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $553k · revenue +23%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group
    6× · 2020–2025 · $525k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • WJ
    Wasatch Jordan Education Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -59% · 53% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CASA HOGAR
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +7%
  • DC
    DISCOVER CHEYENNE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue +5%
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
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
4
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
5
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
6
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
7
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
8
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
9
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of San Diego; the most unlike its peers is Border Missions. 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

92 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. 92 of the 113 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/92
Grantees still filing
65/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CREWE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $3,345,575 · Human ServicesCREWE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONUNION RESCUE MISSION: $305,000 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSION+13 more: $771,500 · Human Services+13 moreChildren's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group: $525,000 · OtherChildren's Hospital Los Angeles Medic…High Hopes Neurological Recovery Group: $503,000 · OtherHigh Hopes Neurological Recovery Grou…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $500,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGOTHE SALVATION ARMY: $500,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $397,561 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY …LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $225,000 · OtherGREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $224,450 · OtherST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · OtherOPERATION PAY IT FORWARD: $350,000 · OtherOPERATION PAY IT FORWARDMEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC: $240,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $227,881 · Other+51 more: $1,812,476 · Other+51 moreSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $1,350,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMER…NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIAS: $380,000 · HealthNATIONAL FOUNDAT…THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA: $300,000 · HealthTHERE WITH CARE …Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $176,000 · HealthRonald McDonald …SOBER SOLUTIONS: $150,000 · HealthSOBER SOLUTIONS+5 more: $134,343 · Health+5 moreCOLETTE'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $1,555,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLETTE'S CH…FAMILY HOPE dba ELIZABETH HOUSE: $335,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY HOPE …GOATS OF ANARCHY INC: $553,200 · AnimalsPAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $205,000 · AnimalsCalifornia Labradors Retrievers & More Rescue: $140,000 · AnimalsCHANNEL ISLANDS MARINE & WILDLIFE INST: $117,000 · AnimalsRUFF HAVEN: $49,000 · Animals+4 more: $55,000 · AnimalsMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $295,000 · EducationECHOES OF HOPE: $174,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $130,000 · EducationDISCOVER CHEYENNE INC: $60,000 · EducationCATALYST FAMILY INC: $45,000 · Education+7 more: $134,882 · EducationThe Pachamama Alliance: $580,323 · Environment+2 more: $20,000 · Environment
Human Services$4,422,075Other$5,705,368Health$2,490,343Housing & Shelter$1,890,000Animals$1,119,200Education$838,882Environment$600,323

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 budgetCREWE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $3,345,575 over 1y, 27% of 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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $227,881 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $130,000 over 6y, 0.0% 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 budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT INDEPENDENCE: $110,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHANDS FOR HOPE: $79,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR CHARITABLE SUPPORT INC: $72,074 over 2y, 5.4% 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 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 Louis and Gladyce…The Community Foundat…Larry H Miller and Ga…Sorenson Legacy Found…McCarthey Family Foun…Park City Community F…Orange County Communi…Making a Difference F…The Kahlert Foundatio…Ihc Health Services I…George S and Dolores …Gs Donor Advised Phil…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Foundation of Utah Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Foundation of Utah Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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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.

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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