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Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.7MArts & Culture$988kReligion$545kHealth$371kRecreation & Sports$230kHuman Services$91kYouth Development$60kEnvironment$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $107k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $524k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
A Child's Hope Fdn$25,000
Loveland Living Planet Aquarium$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
Keala Foundation$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Boys Town: $200 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIER PROJECT: $135 → 14%Wabi Sabi: $5k → 11%Boys Town: $150 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50 → 14%BOYS TOWN: $25 → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25 → 14%A Child's Hope Fdn: $25k → 8%Boys Town: $25 → 12%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $27k → 8%American Indian Services: $20k → 8%American Indian Services: $13k → 8%American Indian Services: $10k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $250 → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $10k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $3k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%American Red Cross: $500 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 14%Rescue Mission of Salt Lake: $3k → 8%Rescue Mission of Salt Lake: $1k → 8%The Road Home: $1k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $250 → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $150 → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $40 → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $50 → 8%Utah Youth Village: $8k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $3k → 8%Utah Youth Village: $3k → 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

MN
IL
MI
NY
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 79 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
96

Total granted

$6.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+13%

Still filing today

62%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • HC
    HALE CENTRE THEATRE
    5× · 2018–2025 · $247k · revenue +97%
  • AI
    American Indian Services
    6× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +6%
  • TL
    THE LIVING PLANET INC
    3× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • SM
    Syracuse Museum and Cultural Center
    one grant, 2024 · $560k
  • B
    BYU
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
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 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
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
United States Telecom Association

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…

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4
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

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.

Environment
5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
8
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
9
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
10
Internet Society Foundation

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…

International
11
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
12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

104 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. 104 of the 188 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/104
Grantees still filing
70/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $2,414,490 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHIndividual grant recipient: $1,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSyracuse Museum and Cultural Center: $560,000 · OtherSyracuse Museum and Cultural CenterCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS: $471,150 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDSWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $450,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITYBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $420,100 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYSouthern Utah University: $300,000 · OtherINTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION: $250,100 · Other+122 more: $931,775 · Other+122 moreHALE CENTRE THEATRE: $246,500 · Arts & CultureSoulfill Music Foundation: $21,900 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $1,550 · Arts & CultureAmerican Indian Services: $82,000 · Human ServicesA CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $12,500 · Human ServicesWABISABI INC: $5,000 · Human Services+7 more: $8,550 · Human ServicesUTAH'S PROMISE: $50,000 · PhilanthropyRON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 · PhilanthropySalt Lake Education Foundation: $10,050 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,750 · PhilanthropyMADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $7,550 · HealthUTAH COALITION AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY: $5,000 · Health+11 more: $6,185 · HealthFEDERAL FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationSOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationSTAND4KIND: $10,000 · EducationDavis Technical College Foundation Inc: $2,000 · Education+7 more: $4,255 · EducationAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $30,400 · InternationalOPERATION SMILE INC: $3,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $2,500 · InternationalBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD: $1,500 · International+2 more: $700 · International
Other$6,797,615Arts & Culture$284,950Human Services$133,050Philanthropy$72,300Health$68,735Education$46,255International$38,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHALE CENTRE THEATRE: $246,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $82,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LIVING PLANET INC: $51,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $30,400 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590: $30,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $30,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetEDIFICATION THROUGH MEDIA FOUNDATIO: $25,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetSoulfill Music Foundation: $21,900 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFEDERAL FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation: $10,050 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEGACY FILMS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetSTAND4KIND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSALT LAKE HONORARY COLONELS INC: $8,200 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $7,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $5,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH COALITION AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $4,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC: $3,825 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFight Against Domestic Violence: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHATTAS SHAY INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCaringBridge: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavis Technical College Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,875 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $1,610 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,475 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,475 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMurray Education Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLeadership Institute: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEL FARNSWORTH FIREMEN & FRIENDS FOR KIDS: $1,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 HALE CENTRE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds American Indian Services ↗
  • Who funds THE LIVING PLANET INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds MADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • 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 EDIFICATION THROUGH MEDIA FOUNDATIO ↗
  • Who funds A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE LEGACY FILMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STAND4KIND ↗

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…The Miner FoundationGeorge S and Dolores …Beesley Family Founda…David Kelby Johnson M…McCarthey Family Foun…C Scott & Dorothy E W…Marriner S Eccles Fou…Kennecott Utah Copper…The Huntsman Foundati…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT63× affinity29 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 · 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

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 Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Bill and Pat Child 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 188 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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