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Dancing Llama Foundation at a glance

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Dancing Llama 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.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$618kHuman Services$398kEducation$262kReligion$222kHealth$136kInternational$14kCivil Rights$14kEnvironment$2k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$845k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHRISTIAN CENTER PARK CITY$100,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$100,000
SOULSALT INC$35,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ENCIRCLE: $32k → 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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 10 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$1.6M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+60%

Still filing today

50%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCivil RightsHealthEducationInternationalReligionOther
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

  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $616k · revenue +128%
  • CC
    CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $344k · revenue +16%
  • FV
    FLOURISH VENTURES
    3× · 2019–2021 · $109k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • EF
    Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center
    one grant, 2020 · $32k · revenue +3%
  • EC
    EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • MD
    MAMA DRAGONS
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -7%
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 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
2
Equality Utah Foundation

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

Civil Rights
3
The Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging

Our mission is to engage with communities and catalyze private, public, and philanthropic partnerships to remedy opportunity gaps in economic opportunity, education, health, and housing in Utah.

Community Improvement
4
Utah Public Health Association

The Utah Public Health Association (UPHA) is a statewide membership organization dedicated to improving the health of Utah communities by supporting and representing the public health workforce. UPHA advances public health through…

Health
5
Utah Health Policy Project

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

Health
6
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art believes in the power of the art of our time. Through programming, advocacy, and collaboration, we work with artists and communities to build a better world.

Arts & Culture
7
Midwives College of Utah

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

Education
8
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…

—
9
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.

—
10
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
11
Centro Hispano

To empower Latino and Utah families by providing equitable access to information, resources, and educational programs to advance and strengthen the community.

Human Services
12
Utah Parent Center Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Utah; the most unlike its peers is Heart to Hands 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

13 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. 13 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $260,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHRISTIAN CENTER PARK CITY: $207,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN CENTER PARK CITYFLOURISH VENTURES: $108,800 · OtherFLOURISH VENTURES+7 more: $52,200 · Other+7 moreUTAH FILM CENTER: $616,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY: $344,000 · ReligionCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PAR…Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $32,000 · Human ServicesSUMMIT COUNTY CLUBHOUSE: $17,000 · HealthPeople's Health Clicnic: $5,000 · HealthEQUALITY UTAH: $14,000 · Civil RightsMAMA DRAGONS: $4,000 · Civil RightsHeart To Hands Foundation: $3,000 · EducationPEO Foundation: $2,000 · Education
Other$628,000Arts & Culture$617,000Religion$344,000Human Services$32,000Health$22,000Civil Rights$18,000Education$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $616,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY: $344,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFLOURISH VENTURES: $108,800 over 3y, 10% of budgetEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $32,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY CLUBHOUSE: $17,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetEQUALITY UTAH: $14,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetPeople's Health Clicnic: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAMA DRAGONS: $4,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPEO Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY ↗
  • Who funds FLOURISH VENTURES ↗
  • Who funds Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY CLUBHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds EQUALITY UTAH ↗
  • Who funds People's Health Clicnic ↗
  • Who funds MAMA DRAGONS ↗
  • Who funds Heart To Hands Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PEO Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOPE ALLIANCE ↗

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.

Sad Foundation IncPark City Community F…Making a Difference F…Sorenson Legacy Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Sad Foundation IncUT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sad Foundation Inc · Park City Community Foundation · Making a Difference Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Dancing Llama Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dancing Llama 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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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