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Cumming 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $6,659 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $6,326 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF UTAH | $2,670 |
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 (FY20–22, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +53% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RHROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL2× · 2020–2021 · $660k · revenue +106%
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC3× · 2020–2022 · $165k · revenue +20%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH3× · 2020–2022 · $151k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CFCommunity Foundation of Utah Three Peaks DAFone grant, 2022 · $7.5M
- UOUniversity of Utah John A Moran Eye Center- Cumming Presidential Endowedone grant, 2022 · $1.5M
- RHRowland Hall- Director of Inclusion Equity & Outreachone grant, 2022 · $600k
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.
To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
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.…
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…
Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.
To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
To improve quality of life through comprehensive, self-empowered, culturally-sensitive healthcare and amazing customer service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole and the most unlike its peers is Ludis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 126 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 ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MYELIN REPAIR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Pachamama Alliance ↗
- Who funds THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LUDIS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds USA FOR UNFPA INC ↗
- Who funds GRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds The Other Side Academy ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Utah · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Park City Community Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Ballard Miller Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation · Kanter Family 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 Cumming 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.
- Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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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