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Beesley 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.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
92
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$7.4MEducation$5.3MHealth$2.6MArts & Culture$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.6MHousing & Shelter$790kFood & Nutrition$660kPhilanthropy$514kOther$0
02FY2024 · 92 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $916k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.3M
$12,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS PHILANTHROPIES$1,520,468
INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$500,000
ENVISION UTAH$320,000
NO POOR AFRICA$220,000
RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION$210,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$176,000
ACADEMY FOR CREATING ENTERPRISE$100,000
MADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION$100,000
SUCCESS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$75,000
CHARITY VISION$75,000
UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE$60,000
AMERICAN HERITAGE SCHOOLS INC$60,000
ONE WORLD SURGERY$51,250
MENTORS INTERNATIONAL$50,000
PROJECT UNITE$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.9M) 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.

area typical 10%THE AUSTIN HOOPER FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%SHE SHOULD RUN: $5k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $100k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $50k → 9%SNOWBASIN ADAPTIVE SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%THE CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $10k → 16%KOINS FOR KENYA INC: $18k → 6%KOINS FOR KENYA INC: $15k → 6%SPARK OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC: $3k → 10%SPARK OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $17k → 8%SPARK OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%SPARK OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%SPARK OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $100k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $78k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $58k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $50k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $43k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $4k → 8%NO POOR AFRICA: $220k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $210k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $45k → 8%HEARTS KNIT TOGETHER: $15k → 8%HEARTS KNIT TOGETHER: $10k → 8%HEARTS KNIT TOGETHER: $5k → 8%HEARTS KNIT TOGETHER: $5k → 8%HEARTS KNIT TOGETHER: $5k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $95k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $75k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $60k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $60k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $50k → 8%GIRLS HOPE RESCUE MISSION: $46k → 8%ELIZABETH SMART FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ELIZABETH SMART FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ELIZABETH SMART FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ELIZABETH SMART FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%GIRLS HOPE RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 8%ELIZABETH SMART FOUNDATION: $5k → 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

ME
WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
HI
AL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 101 repeat orgs$937k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

101 repeat relationships: 69 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
55

Total granted

$22M
$505k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

68%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $432k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IH
    INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +4%
  • EU
    Envision Utah
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +19% · 31% of their budget
  • SV
    SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $715k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • GJ
    GARY & JEANETTE HERBERT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -47%
  • UN
    UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • SL
    SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
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
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
4
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
5
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
6
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
7
Utah Foundation

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.…

Public Benefit
8
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
9
Equality Utah Foundation

To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.

Civil Rights
10
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
11
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
12
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salt Lake Chamber Foundation; the most unlike its peers is West High Alumni Association. 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

124 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 124 of the 180 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
120/124
Grantees still filing
78/124
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS PHILANTHROPIES: $5,870,331 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS PHILANTHROPIESUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $2,629,872 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHSHELTER THE HOMELESS INC: $508,237 · Other+99 more: $4,533,449 · Other+99 moreINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $1,908,228 · HealthINTERMOUNTA…MADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC: $270,000 · HealthMADISON HOU…+14 more: $246,500 · Health+14 moreRise and Rebuild Foundation: $605,000 · Human ServicesRise and …UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $340,000 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUT…American Indian Services: $329,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …No Poor Africa: $220,000 · Human ServicesNo Poor A…FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $150,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PR…SPARK OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $67,350 · Human Services+12 more: $182,500 · Human Services+12 moreSOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $715,000 · EducationAmerican Heritage Schools Inc: $320,000 · EducationSTAND4KIND: $80,000 · EducationYouth Entrepreneurs Inc: $60,000 · EducationLATINOS IN ACTION INC: $60,000 · EducationHORIZONTE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $50,000 · Education+11 more: $174,000 · EducationEnvision Utah: $1,392,317 · Community Improvement+1 more: $40,000 · Community ImprovementCenter for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc: $518,680 · Arts & CultureTHIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $150,000 · Arts & CultureSALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $140,000 · Arts & CultureGolden Spike Foundation: $55,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DAYS OF '47 INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $172,000 · Arts & CultureAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $270,000 · InternationalONE WORLD SURGERY: $251,250 · InternationalMentors International: $245,000 · International+4 more: $51,200 · International
Other$13,541,889Health$2,424,728Human Services$1,893,850Education$1,459,000Community Improvement$1,432,317Arts & Culture$1,335,680International$817,450

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 budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $1,908,228 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEnvision Utah: $1,392,317 over 4y, 31% of budgetSOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $715,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetRise and Rebuild Foundation: $605,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetCenter for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc: $518,680 over 2y, 50% of budgetSHELTER THE HOMELESS INC: $508,237 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCharityVision International: $382,750 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $340,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $329,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetAmerican Heritage Schools Inc: $320,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC: $270,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $270,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetTHE LEGACY FILMS FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetONE WORLD SURGERY: $251,250 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetKEN GARFF FOR GOOD: $250,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMentors International: $245,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetNo Poor Africa: $220,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $150,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $150,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance: $135,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGOVERNORS MANSION FOUNDATION: $107,500 over 5y, 27% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $105,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $103,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT UNITE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSTAND4KIND: $80,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetBOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL: $70,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSPARK OF HOPE FOUNDATION: $67,350 over 5y, 19% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $61,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetYouth Entrepreneurs Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLATINOS IN ACTION INC: $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Other Side Academy: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Spike Foundation: $55,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation: $51,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS HOPE RESCUE MISSION: $51,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetHORIZONTE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $50,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE DAYS OF '47 INC: $50,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH COALITION AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY: $45,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetSalt Lake Chamber Foundation: $42,500 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetHEARTS KNIT TOGETHER: $40,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetGARY & JEANETTE HERBERT FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH NONPROFITS ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetZION NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 1.5% 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 INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Envision Utah ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Rise and Rebuild Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds CharityVision International ↗
  • Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds American Indian Services ↗
  • Who funds American Heritage Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds NO POOR AMONG US ↗
  • Who funds MADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Academy for Creating Enterprise ↗
  • Who funds THE LEGACY FILMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ONE WORLD SURGERY ↗
  • Who funds THIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KEN GARFF FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds Mentors International ↗
  • Who funds No Poor Africa ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
  • Who funds SALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
  • Who funds GOVERNORS MANSION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of Utah ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT UNITE INC ↗
  • Who funds STAND4KIND ↗
  • Who funds BOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL ↗
  • Who funds SPARK OF HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…Larry H Miller and Ga…The Community Foundat…George S and Dolores …The Huntsman Foundati…Lawrence & Janet Dee …The Kahlert Foundatio…Bill and Pat Child Fa…Clark and Christine I…Semnani Family Founda…University ImpactWcf Foundation
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT92.5× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Huntsman Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation · Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation · Semnani Family Foundation · University Impact · Wcf 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 Beesley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Beesley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 31%
  • Samaritans Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Beesley Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Beesley 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 180 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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