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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Westminister College$30,000
Media Matters for America$30,000
American Red Cross$25,000
Human Rights Campaign Foundation$21,200
ACLU of Utah$20,000
Lambda Legal Western Regional Offic$20,000
Victory Fund Institute$20,000
Youth Futures$20,000
Flourish Therapy$15,600
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.

show:

Its 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. Its 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%Tyler Clement Foundation: $8k → 14%Stand with Trans: $5k → 8%Northern Utah Coalition: $5k → 9%The Tyler Clementi Foundation: $8k → 14%Stand with Trans: $3k → 8%Tabithas Way: $3k → 8%Northern Utah Coalition: $5k → 9%The Tyler Clementi Foundation: $8k → 14%Northern Utah Coalition: $5k → 9%Tyler Clement 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%Utah Chinese Association: $1k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $3k → 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

+39%
+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
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

  • UP
    Utah Pride Center Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $556k · revenue +35%
  • 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%
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Rainbow Utah; 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.
04the grantee network

108 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. 108 of the 204 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/108
Grantees still filing
68/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+117 more: $1,102,204 · Other+117 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+12 more: $137,500 · Human Services+12 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 RightsTRUTH WINS OUT INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT 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$1,736,454Human Services$889,190Arts & Culture$540,000Education$322,000Civil Rights$276,450Health$271,163Animals$62,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 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 budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH FUTURES: $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT RAINBOW UTAH: $28,200 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetEMPOWER MT: $25,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTAND4KIND: $25,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetGLAAD INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN UTAH COALITION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetCENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART: $25,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $24,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $23,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Leonardo: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRUTH WINS OUT INC: $20,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetBRIDGERCARE: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJEREMY BULLOCK MEMORIAL FUND: $15,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUtah Metropolitan Ballet: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPOINT SOURCE YOUTH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 budgetUtah Zoological Society: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAPE RECOVERY CENTER: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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 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 UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FUTURES ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT RAINBOW UTAH ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER MT ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds STAND4KIND ↗
  • Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN UTAH COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART ↗

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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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 204 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home