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Angels Way 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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$55kHuman Services$26kInternational$16kYouth Development$12kEducation$11kHealth$6kFood & Nutrition$5kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,391
Median grant
1
States reached
$94k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$8,391
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GOFUNDME: $665 → 14%MAGGIE'S WIGS FOR KIDS OF MICHIGAN: $4k → 10%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $2k → 9%KLOVE RADIO STATION: $1k → 4%UNITED WAY OF SALT LAKE: $3k → 8%UTAH VALLEY FAMILY SUPPORT & TREATMENT CENTER: $2k → 8%WIGS FOR KIDS: $2k → 17%SAVE THE CHILDREN: $805 → 9%WHOLIVES: $8k → 8%UTAH VALLEY FAMILY SUPPORT & TREATMENT CENTER: $1k → 8%WHOLIVES: $5k → 8%TABITHA'S WAY SPANISH FORK: $5k → 8%HOUSE OF HOPE: $2k → 8%TREESIDE CHARTER SCHOOL: $11k → 8%HOUSE OF HOPE: $1k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE COALITION: $3k → 8%THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATER DAY SAINTS: $5k → 8%FOOD & CARE COALITION: $160 → 8%THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATER DAY SAINTS: $266 → 8%LDS PHILANTHROPIES: $50k → 8%SUB FOR SANTA: $8k → 8%SUB FOR SANTA: $6k → 8%SUB FOR SANTA: $6k → 8%SUB FOR SANTA: $5k → 8%SUB FOR SANTA: $2k → 8%SUB FOR SANTA: $2k → 8%SUB FOR SANTA: $102 → 8%UTAH COUNTY UNITED WAY: $343 → 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.
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59k · 7 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$59k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+28%

Still filing today

71%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalPhilanthropyEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WI
    WHOLIVES INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $13k · revenue +690%
  • UV
    Utah Valley Family Support Center Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +30%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • LP
    LDS PHILANTHROPIES
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • TC
    Treeside Charter Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +28%
  • TW
    TABITHA'S WAY SPANISH FORK
    one grant, 2021 · $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
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
2
Friends of the Children - Utah

Friends of the children utah has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…

Youth Development
3
Kids Who Count

We empower families to optimize the developmental potential of their young children.

Education
4
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
5
The Family Place Utah Formerly Known As Child & Family Support Center of Cache

Strengthening families and protecting children. our reason for existence is to provide a facility that offers the tools and support services that parents need to raise their children.

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6
Hope for the Fatherless

HFTF serves orphaned and vulnerable children in Ethiopia, and its mission is to see every child thriving in a loving family. HFTF accomplishes this through five primary initiatives: in-country adoption training and placement, family…

International
7
Utah Foster Care Foundation Inc

We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care

Human Services
8
The Center for Women and Children in Crisis

Provide a caring, advocating, safe, and educationally based environment for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Health
9
Utah Association of Family Support Centers Inc

The mission of the fscu is to strengthen utah families one community at a time by supporting parents, protecting children, and preserving families. to accomplish this mission, each family support center provides its clients with a 24-hour…

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10
Family Hope House Inc

Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.

Health
11
Child Liberation Foundation Inc

The Child Liberation Foundation (CLF), founded in February 2017, is dedicated to eradicating child trafficking worldwide. In 2023, CLF expanded its mission beyond rescue operations to emphasize rehabilitation and healing for survivors of…

Human Services
12
Family Access Fighting for Childrens Rights
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Treeside Charter School. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LDS PHILANTHROPIES: $50,000 · OtherLDS PHILANTHROPIESIndividual grant recipient: $28,636 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATER DAY SAINTS: $5,266 · OtherTABITHA'S WAY SPANISH FORK: $5,000 · OtherMAGGIE'S WIGS FOR KIDS OF MICHIGAN: $4,000 · Other+5 more: $10,343 · Other+5 moreWHOLIVES INC: $13,000 · InternationalWHOLIVES INCSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,320 · InternationalSave The Chi…Treeside Charter School: $11,356 · EducationTreeside …UTAH'S PROMISE: $2,500 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORG: $665 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY: $3,160 · Food & NutritionWigs For Kids Inc: $1,800 · Health
Other$103,245International$15,320Education$11,356Philanthropy$3,165Food & Nutrition$3,160Health$1,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWHOLIVES INC: $13,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTreeside Charter School: $11,356 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHouse of Hope: $3,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Valley Family Support Center Inc: $3,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY: $3,160 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,320 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWigs For Kids Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $665 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 WHOLIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds Treeside Charter School ↗
  • Who funds House of Hope ↗
  • Who funds Utah Valley Family Support Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Wigs For Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗

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…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 17 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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