· Private foundation
Bill and Pat Child Family 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $524k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Utah | $1,335,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| Weber State University | $250,000 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of LDS | $223,500 |
| Southern Utah University | $200,000 |
| Hale Center Theatre | $100,000 |
| Loveland Living Planet Aquarium | $25,000 |
| A Child's Hope Fdn | $25,000 |
| Soulfill Music Foundation | $21,900 |
| American Indian Services | $13,000 |
| City of Hope | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Utah Youth Village | $7,500 |
| Turning Point | $5,500 |
| Wabi Sabi | $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 (FY17–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 6% 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 +25% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 44 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- HCHALE CENTRE THEATRE5× · 2018–2025 · $247k · revenue +97%
- AIAmerican Indian Services6× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +6%
- TLTHE LIVING PLANET INC3× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- SMSyracuse Museum and Cultural Centerone grant, 2024 · $560k
- BBYUone grant, 2022 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $150k
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.…
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See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
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…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Legacy Films Foundation. 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 38 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
104 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. 104 of the 188 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 HALE CENTRE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds American Indian Services ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING PLANET INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds Academy for Creating Enterprise ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 ↗
- Who funds UTAH COMMUNITY BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDIFICATION THROUGH MEDIA FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds Soulfill Music Foundation ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds RON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Salt Lake Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY FILMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAND4KIND ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · The Miner Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · The Huntsman 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 Bill and Pat Child 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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