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Black 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY CHURCH | $58,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $48,000 |
| ALPINE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $25,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH INC | $20,000 |
| ODYSSEY HOUSE - UTAH | $20,000 |
| MERCURY ONE | $15,000 |
| YOUTH IMPACT INC | $10,000 |
| SINFONIA | $6,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TROOP 20 | $4,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $4,000 |
| CORNER CANYON CHURCH | $3,000 |
| THE ROCK CHURCH | $3,000 |
| FIVE 12 FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% 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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
JUDICIAL WATCH INC5× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +3%- UFUTAH FOOD BANK2× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +5%
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $32k
- LLLIVING LANDS & WATERSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +62%
- SAST ANNE'S CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +30%
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.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…
To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…
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 mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
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.…
Our mission is to increase access to food across utah through advocacy, outreach, and education. utahns against hunger is utahs only state-wide anti-hunger non-profit organization working on public policy and advocacy for federal nutrition…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Odyssey House Inc - Utah and the most unlike its peers is Five 12 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 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 33 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 JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE NAZARENE FUND ↗
- Who funds LIVING LANDS & WATERS ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEY HOUSE INC - UTAH ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 ↗
- Who funds Mercury One Inc ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds RAISE THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
- Who funds National Alliance on Mental Illness Utah ↗
- Who funds FIVE 12 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · The Community Foundation of Utah · Texas Instruments Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Black 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.
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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