· Private foundation
C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of C SCOTT & DOROTHY E WATKINS CHARITABLE 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 $10k12 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k66 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k31 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LDS | $300,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $300,000 |
| CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LDS | $170,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAH | $150,000 |
| INTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION AT PRIMARY | $120,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $120,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME | $115,000 |
| SWITCHPOINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENT | $100,000 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY PATHWAY | $90,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $90,000 |
| UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $90,000 |
| SHELTER THE HOMELESS | $90,000 |
| SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT | $90,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $90,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% 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 +38% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
113 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +53%
- UVUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $847k · revenue +5%
- SLSalt Lake Community College Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $751k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF UTAH NURSINGone grant, 2020 · $65k
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION SERVICESFOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $36k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF UTAH DIABETES INSTITUone grant, 2020 · $32k
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.
Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.
To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
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.
Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
The mission of the Utah Safety Council is to save lives by promoting safety and health through education, services, and products.
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
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…
The promotion of low-income housing within the state of utah.
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…
We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care
Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Support Center and the most unlike its peers is Bonneville Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 127 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 UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Salt Lake Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Wasatch Homeless Health Care ↗
- Who funds Community Action Services and Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
- Who funds Granite Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER ↗
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 · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ihc Health Services Inc · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Utah Medical Association Foundation · Marriner S Eccles 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 C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable 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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