· Private foundation
Ballard Miller 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $257k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $33,000 |
| OU COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $30,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH | $25,000 |
| STANFORD FUND | $20,000 |
| HARVARD BUS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| YWCA UTAH | $15,000 |
| UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA | $14,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| MALIHEH FREE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| LWTECH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMM | $10,000 |
| SO UTAH WILDERNESS ALLIANCE | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
83 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +55%
- YWYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · 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
- SOSCHOOL OF MEDICINE ALUMNI ASSOCone grant, 2022 · $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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
We inspire people to explore, discover and learn about earth's diverse ecosystems.
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.
To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
How this is measured
72 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. 72 of the 131 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake ↗
- Who funds NOVA UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BROADWAY LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ballard Miller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ballard Miller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Neighbors Inc: 46% of income from government
- All Classical Public Media Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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