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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.

$516k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$9.5MHealth$3.7MEducation$2.3MEnvironment$1.1MCivil Rights$878kArts & Culture$310kHuman Services$281kInternational$204kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$6,659
Median grant
1
States reached
$243M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$6,659
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$6,326
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF UTAH$2,670
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Quincy Asian Resources Inc: $10k → 7%The River Fund of New York: $100k → 13%United Angels Foundation: $4k → 8%The Retreat: $5k → 7%One22: $10k → 5%One22: $4k → 5%The Brigid Alliance: $100k → 17%Rural Utah Project Education Fund: $25k → 8%Rurual Utah Project Education Fund: $25k → 8%Rural Utah Project Education Fund: $10k → 8%The Utah Refugee Connection: $4k → 8%The Utah Refugee Connection: $4k → 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

VT
WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 29 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
85

Total granted

$3.4M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+33%

Still filing today

93%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RH
    ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $660k · revenue +106%
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $165k · revenue +32%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH
    3× · 2020–2022 · $151k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • CF
    Community Foundation of Utah Three Peaks DAF
    one grant, 2022 · $7.5M
  • UO
    University of Utah John A Moran Eye Center- Cumming Presidential Endowed
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M
  • RH
    Rowland Hall- Director of Inclusion Equity & Outreach
    one grant, 2022 · $600k
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 Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
2
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
3
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
4
Midwives College of Utah

Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.

Education
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
The Water Research 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…

Environment
7
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.

—
8
Equality Utah Foundation

To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.

Civil Rights
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
11
Santa Fe Community Foundation

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,…

Philanthropy
12
Utah Navajo Health System Inc

To improve quality of life through comprehensive, self-empowered, culturally-sensitive healthcare and amazing customer service.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole; 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.
04the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 126 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/85
Grantees still filing
65/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Foundation of Utah Three Peaks DAF: $7,500,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of Utah Three Peaks DAFUniversity of Utah John A Moran Eye Center- Cumming Presidential Endowed: $1,500,000 · OtherUniversity of Utah John A Moran Eye Center- Cumming Presidential EndowedRowland Hall- Director of Inclusion Equity & Outreach: $600,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $596,013 · OtherUniversity of Utah College of Nursing: $500,000 · OtherUniversity of Utah Sch of Medicine Dept of OBGYN Division of Fam Planning: $500,000 · Other+60 more: $2,690,851 · Other+60 morePARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $605,704 · PhilanthropyPARK CITY COM…MYELIN REPAIR FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 · PhilanthropyMYELIN REPAIR…THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION: $312,852 · PhilanthropyTHE SUMMIT FO…THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $312,852 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT C…THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $212,852 · PhilanthropyTHE OREGON CO…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $212,852 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOU…TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $112,852 · Philanthropy+9 more: $111,852 · PhilanthropyROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $660,000 · EducationLUDIS: $160,000 · EducationGRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $110,000 · Education+6 more: $45,000 · EducationROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $165,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $151,000 · HealthEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · HealthWasatch Homeless Health Care: $70,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $55,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $47,500 · Health+7 more: $37,000 · HealthUSA FOR UNFPA INC: $110,500 · Human ServicesTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesSTEWARDSHIP UTAH FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesOne22 Inc: $14,000 · Human Services+4 more: $27,000 · Human ServicesThe Pachamama Alliance: $250,000 · EnvironmentEAST HAMPTON VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $30,000 · Environment+6 more: $33,700 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $145,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100,000 · InternationalPATH: $30,000 · International+1 more: $4,000 · International
Other$13,886,864Philanthropy$2,256,816Education$975,000Health$600,500Human Services$411,500Environment$363,700International$279,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $660,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $605,704 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetMYELIN REPAIR FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetTHE SUMMIT FOUNDATION: $312,852 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $312,852 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $250,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $212,852 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $212,852 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $165,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $162,670 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $151,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $145,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $112,852 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUSA FOR UNFPA INC: $110,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $110,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Other Side Academy: $105,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $70,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEVADA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $62,852 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTEWARDSHIP UTAH FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetOCEARCH: $60,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $54,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetRocky Mountain Innocence Center: $50,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATH: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHELSEA'S FUND: $23,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SAFETY NETWORK: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADVISORY COUNCIL: $19,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of Hope: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOne22 Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPastor France A Davis Scholarship Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOKED MENTORING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLATINOS IN ACTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Larry H Miller and Ga…Sorenson Legacy Found…Park City Community F…George S and Dolores …Lawrence & Janet Dee …Ihc Health Services I…Ballard Miller Founda…Intermountain Communi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Diane and Sam Ste…Kanter Family Foundat…
The Community Foundation of UtahUT40.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cumming Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cumming Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
24report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Cumming Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cumming 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 126 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home