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Bastian Family 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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$12MFood & Nutrition$486kHealth$297kRecreation & Sports$177kHousing & Shelter$61kInternational$28kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kReligion$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$91M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Utah State University$1,579,233
SLC Jr Livestock Program$125,364
Hunts for the Brave$36,000
Jordan Education Foundation$19,000
Northern Utah Protection Associatio$5,000
Operation Smile$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,600
Michael J Fox Foundation$3,600
LDS Philanthropies$2,500
Tunnel to Towers Foundation$2,500
Salvation Army$1,800
John Hopkins University$1,800
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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MAYO CLINIC: $25k → 9%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%Northern Utah Protection Associatio: $5k → 8%HUNTS FOR THE BRAVE: $36k → 9%UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $2.5M → 12%SIGGMA: $32k → 14%OPERATION SMILE: $15k → 10%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $15k → 19%Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $3k → 11%THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS: $25k → 8%NORTHERN UTAH PROTECTION ASSOCIATIO: $5k → 8%5 FOR THE FIGHT: $55k → 8%HUNTS FOR THE BRAVE: $36k → 9%UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $2.3M → 12%OPERATION SMILE: $5k → 10%STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS: $3k → 11%HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%NORTHERN UTAH PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATIO: $5k → 8%LDS PHILANTHROPIES: $15k → 8%Hunts for the Brave: $36k → 9%UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $1.9M → 12%OPERATION SMILE: $5k → 10%UTAH FOOD BANK: $100k → 8%LDS PHILANTHROPIES: $5k → 8%HUNTS FOR THE BRAVE: $36k → 9%UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $1.8M → 12%OPERATION SMILE: $5k → 10%UTAH FOOD BANK: $66k → 8%For the Fight: $4k → 8%Utah State University: $1.6M → 12%OPERATION SMILE: $5k → 10%UTAH FOOD BANK: $15k → 8%UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 12%Operation Smile: $5k → 10%JORDAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $19k → 8%UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $21k → 12%Jordan Education Foundation: $19k → 8%JORDAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $19k → 8%JORDAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14k → 8%JORDAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14k → 8%JORDAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14k → 8%JORDAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%SHELTER THE HOMELESS: $25k → 8%SHELTER THE HOMELESS: $36k → 8%SLC Jr Livestock Program: $125k → 8%SALT LAKE CITY JR LIVESTOCK PROGRA: $95k → 8%SALT LAKE CITY JR LIVESTOCK PROGRAM: $84k → 8%LDS HUMANITARIAN: $35k → 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

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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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 12 repeat orgs$380k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$12M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+46%

Still filing today

58%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationInternationalFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    3× · 2020–2022 · $182k · revenue +53%
  • SL
    SALT LAKE CITY JR LIVESTOCK PROGRAM INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $179k · revenue +7%
  • JE
    Jordan Education Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • 5F
    5 FOR THE FIGHT
    one grant, 2019 · $55k
  • HC
    HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +63%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $35k

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
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
Foundation Fighting Blindness Retinal Degeneration Fund

The foundation fighting blindness retinal degeneration fund's mission is to accelerate the translation of retinal laboratory-based research into clinical trials to expedite the commercialization of patient therapies.

Health
4
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy
7
Scleroderma Research Foundation

The mission of the Scleroderma Research Foundation is to fund and facilitate the most promising, highest quality research aimed at new treatments and, ultimately, a cure for scleroderma.

Health
8
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
9
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
10
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
11
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
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The Jackson Laboratory

The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Five for the Fight Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Salt Lake City Jr Livestock Program Inc. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 30 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY — $11,546,794 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY+19 more — $730,579 · Other+19 moreSALT LAKE CITY JR LIVESTOCK PROGRAM INC — $179,300 · Food & NutritionTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $65,381 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $25,305 · Health+1 more — $200 · HealthJordan Education Foundation — $107,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $7,500 · EducationOPERATION SMILE INC — $40,000 · InternationalAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 · Human ServicesFIVE FOR THE FIGHT FOUNDATION — $1,781 · Philanthropy
Other$12,277,373Food & Nutrition$179,300Health$140,886Education$115,000International$40,000Human Services$25,000Philanthropy$1,781

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $181,613 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSALT LAKE CITY JR LIVESTOCK PROGRAM INC — $179,300 over 2y, 24% of budgetJordan Education Foundation — $107,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $65,381 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER THE HOMELESS INC — $61,201 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $25,305 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIVE FOR THE FIGHT FOUNDATION — $1,781 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 FOOD BANK
  • Who funds SALT LAKE CITY JR LIVESTOCK PROGRAM INC
  • Who funds Jordan Education Foundation
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
  • Who funds SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC
  • Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FIVE FOR THE FIGHT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 Bastian Family 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
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no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bastian Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bastian Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 30 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.

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