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Clark L Tanner Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$558k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202022.

Education$1.7MHealth$1.4MArts & Culture$334kCommunity Improvement$50kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2022 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CAL AT SAN FRANCISCO$300,000
ALLIANCE HOUSE$60,000
THE CHILDREN'S CENTER$55,000
UNIVESITY OF UTAH$45,000
UNIVESITY OF UTAH$25,000
NAMI - COLORADO$20,000
MIND RESEARCH NETWORK$20,000
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$10,000
UTAH SYMPHONY$10,000
CLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION$7,772
ABLE DIFFERENTLY$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $500k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CAL AT SAN FRANCISCO: $300k → 10%BORDER PHILANTHROPY PARTNERSHIP: $20k → 11%EL PASO COMMUNITY FUND: $50k → 21%SANTA FE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA: $6k → 12%MIND RESEARCH NETWORK: $300k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $206k → 8%NAMI - COLORADO: $20k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $15k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CAL - SAN FRANCISCO: $15k → 10%MIND RESEARCH NETWORK: $20k → 14%UNIVESITY OF UTAH: $45k → 8%MIND RESEARCH NETWORK: $15k → 14%CARING CONNECTIONS: $6k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $230k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $55k → 8%THE CHILDRENS CENTER: $20k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $800k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $40k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $40k → 8%UNIVESITY OF UTAH: $25k → 8%VALLEY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $10k → 8%UTAH SYMPHONY: $300k → 8%UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 8%UTAH SYMPHONY: $10k → 8%ALLIANCE HOUSE INC: $275k → 8%ALLIANCE HOUSE: $60k → 8%ALLIANCE HOUSE INC: $45k → 8%ALLIANCE HOUSE: $10k → 8%SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 8%ABLE DIFFERENTLY: $5k → 8%ABLE DIFFERENTLY: $5k → 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.

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 6 repeat orgs$454k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +113% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$2.5M
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+113%
+7%

Still filing today

50%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $338k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
HealthArts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • AH
    ALLIANCE HOUSE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $390k · revenue +304%
  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $310k · revenue +6%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH
    3× · 2020–2022 · $305k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • EP
    EL PASO COMMUNITY FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CAL - SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2021 · $15k

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
Center for Mental Health

The center for mental health partners with people and communities to produce exceptional mental health and substance abuse services.

2
Santa Fe Pro Musica Inc

Santa fe pro musica brings together outstanding musicians to inspire and educate audiences of all ages through the performance of great music.

Arts & Culture
3
Southwest Colorado Mental Health Center Inc

To make a meaningful difference through healthcare innovation and caring for the whole person.

Health
4
Tucson Symphony Society

The mission of the Tucson Symphony is to build and enrich community through the experience of live music of the highest quality.

Arts & Culture
5
Ut Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists Inc

Ulps exists to support the missions of university of tennessee health science center and le bonheur children's hospital to provide high quality patient care, education, research and advocacy. ulps will collaborate with patients and their…

Health
6
Institute for Children's Mental Disorders
Philanthropy
7
Utah Chamber Artists

The Utah Chamber Artists (UCA) is a world renowned, not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 to provide audiences with an artistic force that provides a wide variety of music of the highest caliber, presented in the finest manner. UCA…

Arts & Culture
8
Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles

The institute of contemporary psychoanalysis was formed in 1990 to offer mental health professionals, as well as scholars and professionals from other fields, the opportunity to study the full scope of psychoanalytic theory and clinical…

Education
9
Colorado District Branch of American Psychiatric Association

Education of professionals and general public. our mission is to promote excellence in psychiatric care through advocacy, education and research.

10
Mount St Vincent Home Inc

As part of intermountain health, mount saint vincent partners with children and families to heal beyond trauma into a healthy and hopeful future.

11
Mainly Mozart Inc

Bring together world-class musicians from across North America for classical and innovative musicalprograms and ensure the preservation andappreciation of classical music by giving young musicians the opportunity to learn and perform…

Arts & Culture
12
Nami Idaho

Nami idaho works to improve the quality of life for all those affected by mental illness through support, education, advocacy and research.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Mental Health Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Classics for Kids 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

9 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. 9 of the 18 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $1,156,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHTHE MIND RESEARCH NETWORK — $335,000 · OtherTHE MIND RESEARCH NETWORKTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $305,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAHUNIVERSITY OF CAL AT SAN FRANCISCO — $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CAL AT SAN FRANCISCO+8 more — $127,000 · Other+8 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $515,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUS…+1 more — $7,772 · EducationALLIANCE HOUSE INC — $390,000 · HealthALLIANCE HOUS…NAMI COLORADO — $20,000 · Health+1 more — $9,713 · HealthUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $310,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPH…
Other$2,223,000Education$522,772Health$419,713Arts & Culture$310,000

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $515,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE HOUSE INC — $390,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $310,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $305,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetNAMI COLORADO — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVALLEY MENTAL HEALTH INCORPORATED — $9,713 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — $7,772 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA — $6,000 over 1y, 10% 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ALLIANCE HOUSE INC
  • Who funds THE MIND RESEARCH NETWORK
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH
  • Who funds NAMI COLORADO
  • Who funds VALLEY MENTAL HEALTH INCORPORATED
  • Who funds CLASSICS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA

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.

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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 Clark L Tanner 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 · 10%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Clark L Tanner Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Clark L Tanner 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 18 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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