· Private foundation
Community Volunteers of Utah
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOUNTIFUL FOOD PANTRY | $4,971 |
| COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICES | $3,073 |
| GRANITE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,116 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| 4TH STREET CLINIC | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| THE DOVE CENTER | $2,000 |
| NO KID HUNGRY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $2,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| CHRISTMAS BOX HOUSE | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| THE SHARING | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 24% 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.
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 +79% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 BANK7× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +93%
- TRTHE ROAD HOME8× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +121%
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- HCHUNTSMAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $3k
- SYSIMPLY YOUTH BALLROOMone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CUCrossroads Urban Centerone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.
The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…
Peace house is dedicated to ending interpersonal violence and abuse by empowering survivors to heal and thrive and providing support services, safe housing, and prevention education.
To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.
Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.
Provide a caring, advocating, safe, and educationally based environment for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Center Utah and the most unlike its peers is Simply Youth Ballroom. 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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 49 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 THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds Granite Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds THE SHARING PLACE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds DOVE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds SIMPLY YOUTH BALLROOM ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · The Archer Family Charitable Corp · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable 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 Community Volunteers of Utah 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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