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Ballard Miller 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k50 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $77,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| UNIV OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH | $30,000 |
| YWCA UTAH | $20,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| STANFORD FUND | $10,000 |
| MALIHEH FREE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMM | $10,000 |
| UNITED HELP UKRAINE | $8,000 |
| SO UTAH WILDERNESS ALIANCE | $7,500 |
| HARVARD BUS SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
77 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH4× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +55%
- YWYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +7%
- TITHE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2018–2023 · $60k · revenue +222%
Funded once
- UDUTAH DIVISION OF ARTS & MUSEUMSone grant, 2020 · $25k
- PFPRIVAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- UOUNIV OF UTAH COLLEGE OF FINE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Utah water ways promotes water conservation through collaboration between government, non-profit groups, and private sector partners and empowers the public to be wise stewards of this critical shared resource.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
The organization's mission is to keep the past alive, not only for preservation, but to inspire and provoke a more creative present and sustainable future.
To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
Utah Open Lands' mission is to preserve and protect open space, in perpetuity, in order to maintain Utah's natural heritage and quality of life for present and future generations. The purpose of Utah Open Lands is to permanently protect…
Utah clean energy's mission is to lead the clean energy transformation with vision and expertise. our vision for the future is healthy, thriving communities for all, empowered and sustained by clean energy.
The organization's mission is to preserve and promote individual civil rights and civil liberties as guaranteed by the united states and utah constitutions and the civil rights laws within the state of utah.
The organization's mission is to preserve and promote individual civil rights and civil liberties as guaranteed by the united states and utah constitutions and the civil rights laws within the state of utah.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah and the most unlike its peers is Breathe Utah. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
69 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. 69 of the 122 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake ↗
- Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WORLD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BROADWAY LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Kanter Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Katherine W Dumke & Ezekiel R Dumke Jr Foundation · Janet Q Lawson Foundation · Cumming 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 Ballard Miller 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.
- World Neighbors Inc — 46% of income from government
- All Classical Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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