· Private foundation
Bean 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $6,500 |
| LANTERN HOUSE | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +63% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK4× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +53%
- SAST ANNE'S CENTER4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +10%
- PHPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE3× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- OOONSTAGE OGDENgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +41%
- PCPRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $250
- WTWARM THE SOULS OF KIDSone grant, 2019 · $250
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.
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
Bike utah is the statewide, nonprofit bicycle advocacy and education organization. our mission is to make utah a better place to ride, and we envision a utah where complete active transportation networks and thriving cycling culture…
Mission - Connect the community through great live music. Vision - Perform, engage, inspire. The artistic leadership of the organization is committed to representing a broad range of musical styles, including traditional works,…
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.…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 22 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 UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONSTAGE OGDEN ↗
- Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF NORTHERN UTAH ↗
- Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGACY MUSIC ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BONNEVILLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEBER FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE LODGE 1 ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bean Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bean Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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