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Boyer Family Foundation at a glance

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Boyer 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$6.4MPhilanthropy$805kHealth$232kEnvironment$125kArts & Culture$91kHousing & Shelter$70kYouth Development$56kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONEREFUGEE$1,300,000
AMERICAN HERITAGE SCHOOLS INC$50,000
WASHINGTON POLICY INSTITUTE$15,000
THE GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION$12,500
HELP START EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
ONE UTAH HEALTH COLLABORATIVE$10,000
ASPEN MAGDALENE HOUSE INC$10,000
TOO OFTEN FORGOTTEN INC$10,000
FHF MEXICO INC$5,000
RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC$5,000
WASATCH HOMELESS HEALTH CARE INC (FOURTH STREET CLINIC)$2,500
COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE$2,000
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 (FY18–23, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DREAM FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $50k → 9%RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE: $5k → 8%Utah Youth Village: $1k → 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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.9M · 12 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
20

Total granted

$7.9M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • O
    Onerefugee
    8× · 2018–2025 · $6.8M · revenue +256% · 72% of their budget
  • TG
    THE GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $88k · revenue +40%
  • TI
    THIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $83k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • II
    Invest In U Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • SC
    SANTA CARMEN 1
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • CC
    CIG CAP SANTA CARMEN
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
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
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
2
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
3
Ability 1st Utah

Assisting persons with disabilities to develop independent living and social skills, assisting with housing and transportation needs, rights advocacy, and counseling.

Human Services
4
Shelter Providers of Utah

To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.

—
5
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Utah Geological Foundation
—
7
Wasatch Homeless Health Care

Help homeless Utahns improve their health and quality of life by providing high-quality health care and support services.

Health
8
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
9
Ogden Family Foundation
Education
10
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
11
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Utah Foster Care Foundation Inc

We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Ogden; the most unlike its peers is Onerefugee. 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

26 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. 26 of the 38 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
13/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Onerefugee: $6,800,000 · EducationOnerefugee+4 more: $172,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $584,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHInvest In U Fund: $500,000 · OtherInvest In U FundSANTA CARMEN 1: $125,000 · OtherSANTA CARMEN 1CIG CAP SANTA CARMEN: $125,000 · OtherCIG CAP SANTA CARMENAM HERITAGE SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherAM HERITAGE SCHOOLUnited Way: $100,000 · OtherUnited Way+15 more: $231,500 · Other+15 moreFight the New Drug Inc: $200,000 · HealthONE UTAH HEALTH COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthTHIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $83,000 · Arts & CultureFPC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureFAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $50,000 · Human ServicesASPEN MAGDALENE HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,250 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentToo Often Forgotten Inc: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Education$6,972,500Other$1,765,500Health$215,000Arts & Culture$90,500Human Services$73,750Youth Development$50,000Philanthropy$20,000

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 budgetOnerefugee: $6,800,000 over 8y, 72% of budgetFight the New Drug Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION: $87,500 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetTHIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $83,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUTAH COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $50,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAmerican Heritage Schools Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetHelp Start Education Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN MAGDALENE HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetOur Schools Now: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFHF MEXICO INC: $10,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetONE UTAH HEALTH COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFPC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOACH MIKE'S FRIENDS OF PUBLIC TENNIS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDanielle Byron Henry Migraine Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $1,250 over 1y, 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.

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…George S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…Wcf FoundationBill and Pat Child Fa…C Scott & Dorothy E W…Clark and Christine I…Kennecott Utah Copper…Beesley Family Founda…Ssir Cares IncMichel Foundation
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT29.8× affinity12 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 · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Wcf Foundation · Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · Ssir Cares Inc · Michel 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 Boyer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boyer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Boyer Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Boyer 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 38 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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