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Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation at a glance

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Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$4.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$15MScience & Tech$7.4MArts & Culture$4.1MPhilanthropy$3.6MReligion$3.3MHousing & Shelter$3.2MCommunity Improvement$1.6MHuman Services$998kOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $417k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+3 grants · $6.7M
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$327M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$4,121,332
THIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION$1,585,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF UTAH$1,000,000
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY$209,500
INTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION$200,000
GRANITE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$179,292
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION$165,000
PREVENT CHILD ABUSE UTAH$150,000
TREEUTAH$144,478
SCHOLARSHIP-IVORY CONST-BLDG SCIENCE PATHWAYS$114,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN$110,000
UTAH SPORT COMMISSION$103,000
THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS$100,000
SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY$75,000
JOINT CENTER FOR HOUSING STUDIES$75,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%EPICENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%NEW STORY INC: $10k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $165k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $150k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $105k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $100k → 11%SHOUT INC: $10k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $100k → 11%SHOUT INC: $5k → 12%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $75k → 11%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $55k → 11%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $20k → 8%ELIZABETH SMART FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%YOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $500 → 8%YOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $200 → 8%ENCIRCLE FAMILY AND YOUTH RESOURCE: $75 → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $230k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $162k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $110k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $100k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $100k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $1k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $5k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $5k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $5k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $5k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $5k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $3k → 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

WA
ID
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
KS
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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TX
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31M · 78 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

78 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
78

Total granted

$31M
$9.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+21%

Still filing today

45%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $565k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TI
    THIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +60%
  • UN
    UTAH NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2.0M · revenue +6%
  • NH
    NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN
    7× · 2018–2024 · $750k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • II
    IVORY INNOVATIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $7.4M · revenue -97% · 36% of their budget
  • TL
    THE LDS CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $1.3M
  • SI
    Sorenson Impact Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $233k · revenue -65%
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
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
3
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
4
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
6
Lightspark Foundation
Civil Rights
7
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
9
House of Hope

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

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10
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
11
Utah Impact Partnership

The utah impact partnership was organized for community leaders, governments and donors to create solutions and form collective responses to homelessness and housing instability in the state of utah, actions that will lead to social…

Housing & Shelter
12
Utah Foundation

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.…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salt Lake Chamber Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Huntsman 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

85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 178 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/85
Grantees still filing
57/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $12,252,061 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHIVORY INNOVATIONS: $7,440,000 · OtherIVORY INNOVATIONSUTAH NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION: $2,010,000 · OtherUTAH NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATIONTHE LDS CHURCH: $1,250,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTE: $1,180,000 · OtherUTAH COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $1,160,900 · Other+127 more: $7,870,004 · Other+127 moreTHIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $3,095,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $33,000 · Arts & CultureThe Community Foundation of Utah: $2,250,500 · PhilanthropySorenson Impact Foundation: $232,500 · Philanthropy+4 more: $37,000 · PhilanthropyNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN: $750,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME: $707,000 · Human Services+10 more: $95,775 · Human ServicesGranite Education Foundation: $476,859 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $150,000 · EducationSLCC FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationClaremont Graduate University: $100,000 · EducationCornell University: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · EducationHelp Start Education Foundation: $40,000 · EducationYouth Entrepreneurs Inc: $40,000 · Education+5 more: $33,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $610,000 · Youth DevelopmentUTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentKEN GARFF FOR GOOD: $121,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREE UTAH: $557,651 · EnvironmentUTAH CLEAN AIR PARTNERSHIP INC: $30,000 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · Environment
Other$33,162,965Arts & Culture$3,328,000Philanthropy$2,520,000Human Services$1,552,775Education$1,084,859Youth Development$981,000Environment$597,651

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 budgetIVORY INNOVATIONS: $7,440,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetTHIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $3,095,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $2,250,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetUTAH NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION: $2,010,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetUTAH COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $1,160,900 over 7y, 73% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN: $750,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $707,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $610,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTREE UTAH: $557,651 over 7y, 24% of budgetGranite Education Foundation: $476,859 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetUTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSorenson Impact Foundation: $232,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTERNER HOUSING INNOVATION LABS INC: $200,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE UTAH: $150,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSLCC FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetKEN GARFF FOR GOOD: $121,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUtah Sports Commission: $103,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $100,600 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetClaremont Graduate University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSalt Lake Chamber Foundation: $76,740 over 3y, 18% of budgetHope Clinic Inc: $73,500 over 4y, 30% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $72,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEnvision Utah: $61,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCornell University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $45,992 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHelp Start Education Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetYouth Entrepreneurs Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH CLEAN AIR PARTNERSHIP INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGARY & JEANETTE HERBERT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSANPETE PANTRY: $25,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH VETERANS ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRising Star Outreach Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOUT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Leonardo: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUNTSMAN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEPICENTER Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budget101 Gardens: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% 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 IVORY INNOVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds THIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of Utah ↗
  • Who funds UTAH NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UTAH COMMUNITY BUILDERS ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSN ↗
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds TREE UTAH ↗
  • Who funds Granite Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sorenson Impact Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TERNER HOUSING INNOVATION LABS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE UTAH ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SLCC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KEN GARFF FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds Utah Sports Commission ↗
  • Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗

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…The Community Foundat…George S and Dolores …Larry H Miller and Ga…Ihc Health Services I…Beesley Family Founda…Dominion Energy Chari…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Joan and Tim Fenton F…The Huntsman Foundati…Wcf FoundationSemnani Family Founda…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT61.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Beesley Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation · The Huntsman Foundation · Wcf Foundation · Semnani Family 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 Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Clark and Christine Ivory 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 178 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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