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Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS | $49,000 |
| Western Wyoming College Foundation | $20,000 |
| TPUSA | $10,000 |
| Hirsche Smiles Foundation | $8,000 |
| Courage Reins | $8,000 |
| The Refuge Utah | $5,000 |
| Kids on the Move | $3,000 |
| Draper Meadows 5th Ward | $2,400 |
| Friends for Sight | $2,000 |
| CAPSA | $2,000 |
| Common Ground Outdoor Adventures | $2,000 |
| The Happy Factory | $1,000 |
| Wrap the World in Quilts | $1,000 |
| Utah Honor Flight | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- HSHIRSCHE SMILES FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +123%
- TCThe Center for Women and Children in Crisis6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +212%
- CACITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- LCLDS Churchone grant, 2020 · $40k
- HCHuntsman Cancer Instituteone grant, 2020 · $7k
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +106%
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.
We empower families to optimize the developmental potential of their young children.
Assisting persons with disabilities to develop independent living and social skills, assisting with housing and transportation needs, rights advocacy, and counseling.
Provides services and supports to individuals in Utah County who have intellectual disabilities.
We inspire and transform students with learning differences into confident, independent, and successful readers. We collaborate with colleagues and members of the community for the welfare and value of our diverse learners.
To support all special needs families in Utah by: 1. Sharing information about doctors and resources in the community, 2. Facilitating the legal exchange of spare supplies, 3. Providing comfort and support when our special needs children…
Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.
Utah Homicide Survivors provides holistic legal representation to families of homicide victims.
The organization's mission is to provide diagnostic and therapy (early intervention) services to infants and toddlers with disabilities.
To provide services to disabled persons with a focus on assisting individuals in Utah County with cognitive disabilities gain skills to enable them to enter the workforce.
Eye care 4 kids provides professional eyecare to underserved children and adults.
Our mission is to help parents help their children, youth and young adults with all disabilities to live included, productive lives as members of the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Women and Children in Crisis and the most unlike its peers is Western Wyoming College Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 22 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 HIRSCHE SMILES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Courage Reins ↗
- Who funds The Center for Women and Children in Crisis ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WYOMING COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds UTAH HONOR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds HAPPY FACTORY INC ↗
- Who funds Kids on the Move Inc ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR SIGHT ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family Foundation · The Gibney Family Foundation Inc · DME Foundation · The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation · The Miner Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Texas Instruments 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 Dale H Ballard Jr Family 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.
- 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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