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B W Bastian Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$966k
Granted FY2024still arriving
116
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Human Services$827kEducation$817kArts & Culture$683kHealth$533kCivil Rights$500kHousing & Shelter$119kYouth Development$100kSocial Science$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 116 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k88 grants · $306k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $472k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $187k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Utah Pride Center$75,120
Encircle$62,000
Eisenhower Health Foundation$50,000
Equality Utah Foundation$48,000
UAF Legacy Health$40,000
Ballet West$35,000
Media Matters for America$30,000
Westminister College$30,000
American Red Cross$25,000
Human Rights Campaign Foundation$21,200
Victory Fund Institute$20,000
ACLU of Utah$20,000
Lambda Legal Western Regional Offic$20,000
Youth Futures$20,000
Flourish Therapy$15,600
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $878k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Give Us The Floor: $5k → 10%SMYAL: $1k → 14%Stand with Trans: $5k → 8%Northern Utah Coalition: $5k → 9%The Tyler Clementi Foundation: $8k → 14%Give Us The Floor: $3k → 10%Stand with Trans: $5k → 8%Northern Utah Coalition: $5k → 9%The Tyler Clementi Foundation: $8k → 14%Stand with Trans: $5k → 8%Northern Utah Coalition: $5k → 9%Tyler Clement Foundation: $8k → 14%Stand with Trans: $3k → 8%Tabithas Way: $3k → 8%Tyler Clement Foundation: $8k → 14%Northern Utah Coalition: $5k → 9%The Tyler Clementi Foundation: $8k → 14%Northern Utah Coalition: $5k → 9%EmpowerMT: $5k → 9%EmpowerMT: $5k → 9%EmpowerMT: $5k → 9%EmpowerMT: $5k → 9%Family Counseling Service of Northe: $3k → 9%EmpowerMT: $5k → 9%Family Counseling Service of Northe: $3k → 9%Crossroads Urban Center: $3k → 8%Utah Chinese Association: $1k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $3k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $3k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $3k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $2k → 8%Encircle: $62k → 8%Encircle: $26k → 8%Encircle: $25k → 8%Encircle: $25k → 8%Encircle: $20k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $200k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $100k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $100k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $81k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $75k → 8%Road Home: $6k → 8%Road Home: $2k → 8%The INN Between: $3k → 8%The INN Between: $3k → 8%The INN Between: $3k → 8%The INN Between: $3k → 8%The INN Between: $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

WA
ID
MT
MI
NY
MA
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MD
NC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 99 repeat orgs$481k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

99 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
60

Total granted

$3.6M
$237k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+13%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UP
    Utah Pride Center Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $556k · revenue +204%
  • BW
    BALLET WEST
    5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +88%
  • EF
    Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center
    5× · 2020–2024 · $158k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Utah College of Educa
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • SL
    Salt Lake Education Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +14%
  • POINT SOURCE YOUTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +186%

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
Equality Utah

The organization pursues educational, lobbying, and poltical activities in order to further lesbain, gay, bisexual, and transgender (lgbt) interests within utah.

Civil Rights
2
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

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3
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…

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5
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

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6
Utah Valley Arts

Support various performing arts in utah.

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7
Utah Arts Academy

Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…

Education
8
The Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging

Our mission is to engage with communities and catalyze private, public, and philanthropic partnerships to remedy opportunity gaps in economic opportunity, education, health, and housing in Utah.

Community Improvement
9
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
10
Utah Legal Services Inc

Our mission at uls is to provide high-quality civil legal aid without cost to people who are unable to afford legal representation or are facing disadvantages, ensuring meaningful access to justice, and promoting education, stability,…

Crime & Legal
11
Utah Dispute Resolution

Utah Dispute Resolution exists to provide residents of Utah with quality mediation services, information and training in dispute resolution, and the means to successfully, informally and cooperatively resolve disputes.

Crime & Legal
12
Utah Leads

Utah Leads set out to understand what makes our information ecosystem in Utah unique, who is influencing policy formation in Utah, how that influence works in practice through multiple channels and across channels, and what policy…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Rainbow Utah and the most unlike its peers is Lift and Love Foundation. 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 backsteadyLgbtq+ Community SupportOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Dance Arts OrganizationsLocal History MuseumsCommunity Arts CentersCancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Environmental Conservation …Domestic Violence ServicesSchool District FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
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 28 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%6%<5yr17%9%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr8%26%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%1%<5yr17%6%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr15%34%20–35yr8%18%35–55yr12%20%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/123
the rest of the field
15%
1,823/12,280

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

108 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 204 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/108
Grantees still filing
68/108
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY — $300,500 · OtherUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITYAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF UTAH — $96,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF UTAHVictory Fund Institute — $95,000 · OtherVictory Fund InstituteVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH — $72,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $70,000 · Other+116 more — $1,101,704 · Other+116 moreUtah Pride Center Inc — $556,240 · Human ServicesUtah Pride Center IncEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center — $157,950 · Human ServicesEncircle Family and Yout…THE TYLER CLEMENTI FOUNDATION INC — $37,500 · Human Services+13 more — $138,000 · Human Services+13 moreBALLET WEST — $165,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WESTUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $72,500 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY …THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SALT LAKE …SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY — $40,000 · Arts & CultureSALT LAKE ACTI…UTAH FILM CENTER — $35,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENT…CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART — $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe Leonardo — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSalt Lake Academy of Music — $19,000 · Arts & Culture+21 more — $118,500 · Arts & Culture+21 moreWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $145,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $130,000 · EducationSTAND4KIND — $25,000 · Education+4 more — $22,000 · EducationEQUALITY UTAH FOUNDATION — $128,150 · Civil RightsPROJECT RAINBOW UTAH — $28,200 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $25,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $23,600 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsTRUTH WINS OUT INC — $20,000 · Civil Rights+5 more — $31,500 · Civil RightsUtah Aids Foundation — $81,150 · HealthFlourish Therapy Inc — $53,913 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center — $50,000 · HealthYOUTH FUTURES — $35,000 · HealthWasatch Homeless Health Care — $15,500 · HealthRAPE RECOVERY CENTER — $11,000 · Health+7 more — $24,600 · HealthUTAH ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER — $50,000 · AnimalsUtah Zoological Society — $11,000 · Animals+1 more — $1,500 · Animals
Other$1,735,954Human Services$889,690Arts & Culture$540,000Education$322,000Civil Rights$276,450Health$271,163Animals$62,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUtah Pride Center Inc — $556,240 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetBALLET WEST — $165,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center — $157,950 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $145,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA — $130,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEQUALITY UTAH FOUNDATION — $128,150 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF UTAH — $96,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetUtah Aids Foundation — $81,150 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH — $72,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $72,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFlourish Therapy Inc — $53,913 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUTAH ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER — $50,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY — $40,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TYLER CLEMENTI FOUNDATION INC — $37,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetYOUTH FUTURES — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT RAINBOW UTAH — $28,200 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN UTAH COALITION INC — $25,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetGLAAD INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWER MT — $25,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART — $25,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSTAND4KIND — $25,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $24,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $23,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUTH WINS OUT INC — $20,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetBRIDGERCARE — $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Leonardo — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSalt Lake Academy of Music — $19,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetStand With Trans — $18,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTHE MUNDI PROJECT — $16,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care — $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN — $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEREMY BULLOCK MEMORIAL FUND — $15,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetPOINT SOURCE YOUTH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUtah Metropolitan Ballet — $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSB DANCE — $14,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center — $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Warm Inc — $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRAPE RECOVERY CENTER — $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUtah Zoological Society — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME — $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art — $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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 Utah Pride Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
  • Who funds Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds EQUALITY UTAH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF UTAH ↗
  • Who funds Utah Aids Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
  • Who funds Flourish Therapy Inc ↗
  • Who funds UTAH ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds THE TYLER CLEMENTI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FUTURES ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT RAINBOW UTAH ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN UTAH COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER MT ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART ↗
  • Who funds STAND4KIND ↗

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.

George S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…Sorenson Legacy Found…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Pacificorp Foundation…Ihc Health Services I…Larry H Miller and Ga…Salt Lake Arts Counci…McCarthey Family Foun…Dominion Energy Chari…The Miner FoundationMaking a Difference F…
George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT64.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Ihc Health Services Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Miner Foundation · Making a Difference Foundation

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 B W Bastian 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Centerlink Inc — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 204 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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