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C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
111
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
01

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.

02FY2025 · 111 grants

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
$26,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 9%SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $36k → 6%SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $36k → 6%SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 6%SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $32k → 6%SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 6%SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $25k → 6%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $35k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $35k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $35k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $35k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $35k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $27k → 8%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF: $12k → 9%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF: $12k → 9%ABILITY FOUND: $15k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $15k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $15k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $15k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $15k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICES: $50k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICES: $50k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICES: $44k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICES: $44k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICES: $44k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $15k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $15k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $15k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $15k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $15k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $125k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $115k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $115k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $95k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $95k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $36k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $36k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $32k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $30k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $30k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $25k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $20k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $13k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SERVICES: $36k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SERVICES: $36k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SERVICES: $32k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SERVICES: $30k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SERVICES: $30k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SERVICES: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NV
CA
UT
VA
MD
NM
DC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$26M · 113 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

113
9

Total granted

$26M
$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-17%

Still filing today

58%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +53%
  • UV
    UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $847k · revenue +5%
  • SL
    Salt Lake Community College Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $751k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH NURSING
    one grant, 2020 · $65k
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICESFOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $36k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DIABETES INSTITU
    one grant, 2020 · $32k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Southwest Utah Community Health Center

Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.

Health
2
Shelter Providers of Utah

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

3
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
4
Utah Valley Family Support Center Inc

Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.

5
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

6
Utah Safety Council

The mission of the Utah Safety Council is to save lives by promoting safety and health through education, services, and products.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

8
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

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…

9
Utah Housing Coalition Inc

The promotion of low-income housing within the state of utah.

10
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Utah Donor Collaborative

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%1%<5yr16%4%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr8%35%35–55yr14%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr8%31%35–55yr14%38%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/81
the rest of the field
16%
1,223/7,814

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
53/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LDS — $2,123,000 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LDSUTAH FOOD BANK — $1,617,000 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $1,147,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY — $973,000 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAH — $806,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY — $801,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF — $781,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS — $715,000 · Other+75 more — $9,209,000 · Other+75 moreTHE ROAD HOME — $640,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HO…RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC — $408,000 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISS…Community Action Services and Food Bank — $232,000 · Human ServicesCommunity A…Crossroads Urban Center — $202,000 · Human ServicesCrossroads …UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE — $189,000 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH …SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC — $189,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH VALLE…SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER — $189,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR…ABILITY FOUND CORPORATION — $87,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $87,000 · Human Services+8 more — $313,000 · Human Services+8 moreHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $560,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN …American Heart Association Inc — $270,000 · HealthAmerican …COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $246,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY…Wasatch Homeless Health Care — $235,000 · HealthWasatch H…The Center for Women and Children in Crisis — $182,000 · HealthThe Cente…Midtown Community Health Center Inc — $164,000 · HealthMidtown C…EYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah — $125,000 · HealthEYE CARE …Maliheh Free Clinic — $125,000 · HealthMaliheh F…Mountainlands Community Health Center — $100,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc — $87,000 · Health+4 more — $100,000 · HealthUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $847,000 · EducationUTAH VALL…Salt Lake Community College Foundation — $751,000 · EducationSalt Lake…Granite Education Foundation — $192,000 · EducationGranite E…Jordan Education Foundation — $122,000 · EducationJordan Ed…SNOW COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $72,000 · Education+4 more — $170,000 · Education+4 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC — $405,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY — $375,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION — $138,000 · Public BenefitUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $77,000 · Public Benefit
Other$18,172,000Human Services$2,536,000Health$2,194,000Education$2,154,000International$405,000Food & Nutrition$375,000Public Benefit$215,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $1,617,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $847,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSalt Lake Community College Foundation — $751,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME — $640,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $560,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSHELTER THE HOMELESS INC — $522,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH — $502,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC — $408,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $405,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY — $375,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetST ANNE'S CENTER — $295,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $270,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $246,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care — $235,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Action Services and Food Bank — $232,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center — $202,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetGranite Education Foundation — $192,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE — $189,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC — $189,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah — $189,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER — $189,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetThe Center for Women and Children in Crisis — $182,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CHRISTMAS BOX INTERNATIONAL — $166,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetMidtown Community Health Center Inc — $164,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDavis Education Foundation — $162,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION — $138,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetEYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah — $125,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE — $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic — $125,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetJordan Education Foundation — $122,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation — $122,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNew Hope Crisis Center of Box Elder County — $118,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $115,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH — $112,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 — $112,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFamily Promise - Salt Lake — $110,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS — $105,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMountainlands Community Health Center — $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH — $98,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LIVING PLANET INC — $94,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetABILITY FOUND CORPORATION — $87,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc — $87,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT CENTER — $87,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $77,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSNOW COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $72,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDavis Technical College Foundation Inc — $70,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetBONNEVILLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $68,000 over 4y, 21% of budget
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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT94.4× affinity45 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 · 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 127 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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