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C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$8.0MHuman Services$3.2MHealth$3.2MReligion$3.1MHousing & Shelter$2.5MFood & Nutrition$2.1MYouth Development$743kPublic Safety & Disaster$715kOther$0
02FY2025 · 111 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
AMERICAN RED CROSS$120,000
INTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION AT PRIMARY$120,000
THE ROAD HOME$115,000
HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION$100,000
SWITCHPOINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENT$100,000
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY$90,000
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY$90,000
UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$90,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$90,000
SHELTER THE HOMELESS$90,000
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT$90,000
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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

NV
CA
UT
VA
MD
NM
DC
GA
TX
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -17% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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.

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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…

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9
Utah Housing Coalition Inc

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

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Support Center; 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 127 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 …SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $189,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR…UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $189,000 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH …SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC: $189,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH VALLE…FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $87,000 · Human ServicesABILITY FOUND CORPORATION: $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…Maliheh Free Clinic: $125,000 · HealthMaliheh F…EYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah: $125,000 · HealthEYE CARE …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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $189,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC: $189,000 over 6y, 1.1% 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 budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $125,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE: $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah: $125,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation: $122,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetJordan Education Foundation: $122,000 over 5y, 1.3% 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 budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590: $112,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH: $112,000 over 5y, 0.4% 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 budgetFAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $87,000 over 6y, 1.0% 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 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
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 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 Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC ↗

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…Ihc Health Services I…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Intermountain Communi…Dominion Energy Chari…Kennecott Utah Copper…Pacificorp Foundation…Utah Medical Associat…Marriner S Eccles Fou…
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

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 C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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, 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

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 127 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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