How much does David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation give?

David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation reported 69 grants totaling $1,700,270 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 81 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (34%), Environment (13%), Human Services (9%).

Who are David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Utah Food Bank ($678k), Madeleine Choir School ($512k), Spy Hop Productions ($449k).

Does David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation.

Where is David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation based?

David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation is based in UT.

Foundation Dossiers

Utah · Private foundation

David Kelby Johnson Memorial 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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 69
Grants FY2024: 66
Organizations funded FY2023: 26%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $200,000
Organizations funded a year: 24 to 81; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 7
Total assets, FY2024: $41M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $471k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEnvironmentHealthInternationalArts & CultureEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	68	$1.7M	21%
FY2023	66	$1.6M	26%
FY2022	81	$1.6M	27%
FY2021	65	$1.4M	37%
FY2020	54	$1.6M	24%
FY2019	48	$1.6M	48%
FY2018	32	$1.5M	63%
FY2017	24	$1.7M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$4.4MEnvironment$1.7MHuman Services$1.2MArts & Culture$1.0MYouth Development$939kFood & Nutrition$860kReligion$811kCommunity Improvement$327kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Utah Food Bank	$677,500	8	0%
Madeleine Choir School	$512,386	8	n/a
Spy Hop Productions	$448,870	8	6%
Summit Land Conservancy	$363,650	5	4%
The Christmas Box International	$291,900	5	5%
Adopt-A-Native Elder	$290,000	7	3%
Skaggs Catholic Center LLC	$273,534	3	n/a
Friends of Tracy Aviary	$212,000	7	2%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc	$195,000	5	1%
Maliheh Free Clinic	$175,000	6	2%

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All grantees of David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Utah Food Bank	$677,500	8	0%
Madeleine Choir School	$512,386	8	n/a
Spy Hop Productions	$448,870	8	6%
Summit Land Conservancy	$363,650	5	4%
The Christmas Box International	$291,900	5	5%
Adopt-A-Native Elder	$290,000	7	3%
Skaggs Catholic Center LLC	$273,534	3	n/a
Friends of Tracy Aviary	$212,000	7	2%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc	$195,000	5	1%
Maliheh Free Clinic	$175,000	6	2%
Friends for Sight	$175,000	5	7%
Friends of Cedar Mesa	$165,000	3	6%
Ballet West	$156,500	6	0%
Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective	$130,000	5	2%
Tree Utah	$124,000	4	7%
Utah Pride Center Inc	$120,000	4	3%
Friends of the Children - Utah	$115,000	4	4%
Georgetown University	$110,000	3	0%
The Sharing Place	$105,000	6	9%
The Inn Between	$103,232	6	2%
Jordan Valley Conservation Gardens	$100,000	1	66%
The Wildlands Conservancy	$100,000	1	1%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$100,000	2	0%
One Heart Worldwide	$95,000	3	1%
Save The Children Federation Inc	$95,000	3	0%
Wasatch Community Gardens	$86,000	8	1%
Utah Open Lands Conservation Association Inc	$85,000	3	2%
Salt Lake Acting Company	$77,500	3	4%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$75,000	2	0%
Maui Food Bank Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Wasatch Mountain Institute	$67,000	2	28%
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah	$63,600	4	1%
Special Olympics Utah Inc	$55,000	3	2%
Sageland Collaborative	$53,500	5	2%
Jewish Family Service	$53,000	5	1%
Utah's Promise	$50,000	3	0%
Girls on the Run Utah	$45,000	3	2%
Work Activity Center Inc	$43,400	3	1%
Futureindesign Inc	$41,000	5	12%
Utah Youth Village	$40,000	2	0%
Utah Children	$40,000	4	1%
Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc	$40,000	1	1%
The Children's Center Utah	$37,500	3	0%
Youthlinc	$36,750	3	1%
Utah Diaper Bank	$35,000	3	8%
Utah Athletic Foundation	$35,000	2	0%
Youth Futures	$34,500	3	1%
Girl Scouts of Utah	$33,000	4	0%
Yee Haolnii Doo	$33,000	1	2%
Salt Lake Academy of Music	$30,000	2	5%
Seven Canyons Trust	$30,000	3	22%
Friends of Alta Inc	$28,000	6	3%
The Sandy Club	$27,000	2	4%
Guadalupe Center Educational Programs Inc	$25,000	2	0%
FRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake	$25,000	3	2%
Utah Rivers Council Inc	$24,000	2	3%
University of Utah	$24,000	4	n/a
Building Youth Around the World	$22,500	3	2%
Visual Art Institute	$20,325	3	3%
Stand4kind	$20,000	1	3%
Ability Found Corporation	$20,000	3	0%
Centro Civico Mexicano	$17,130	6	10%
Fit to Recover Inc	$16,000	3	1%
Utah Pet Partners	$15,000	3	9%
Ron McBride Foundation Inc	$15,000	2	2%
Neighborhood House Association	$15,000	1	0%
Children's Service Society of Utah	$15,000	2	0%
Hawkwatch International Inc	$15,000	2	1%
Senior Charity Care Foundation	$15,000	1	2%
The Green Urban Lunch Box	$15,000	2	3%
Fuller Center for Housing of Cache Valley Inc	$14,500	7	2%
Junior League of Salt Lake Cityinc	$12,500	2	3%
Weber State University	$12,500	1	n/a
Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery	$12,000	6	1%
Homecare & Hospice Assoc of Utah	$10,000	1	3%
Cottonwood Canyons Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
The Leonardo	$10,000	1	0%
Empower Mali	$10,000	2	1%
Rock Camp Slc	$10,000	1	13%
Utah Parent Center Inc	$10,000	2	0%
Ddi Vantage	$10,000	1	0%
The Living Planet Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Kids on the Move Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Wabisabi Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Utah Dine Bikeyah	$9,000	1	0%
Wasatch Public Media	$7,000	4	n/a
Literacy Action Center	$6,500	4	5%
Frank Cordova Foundation	$6,000	6	8%
Adoptive Families Coalition	$5,610	1	2%
Salt Lake Education Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Friends of Pando Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Citizens Committee to Save Our	$5,000	1	1%
American Indian Services	$5,000	1	0%
Canines With a Cause	$5,000	1	2%
Wasteless Solutions Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Cycle Sanpete	$5,000	1	n/a
Bridge Elementary	$5,000	1	0%
Canyonlands Field Institute Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Camp Hobe Inc	$5,000	1	2%
Bike Utah	$5,000	1	1%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah	$5,000	1	0%
Understanding Us	$5,000	1	18%
People Helping People	$5,000	1	1%
Phenom Factory Flyers	$4,000	2	n/a
The Road Home	$3,500	3	0%
Image Reborn Inc	$3,500	3	1%
Intermountain Therapy Animals	$3,000	1	1%
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance	$3,000	1	0%
St Joseph Catholic High School	$3,000	3	n/a
International Visitors Utah Council	$2,500	1	0%
Topaz Museum	$2,000	3	0%
The Alta Club Building Foundation Inc	$1,750	3	3%
My Healing Home	$1,500	1	n/a
Aspen Magdalene House Inc	$1,500	1	1%
Salt Lake Sonics	$1,000	1	n/a
American Diabetes Association	$1,000	1	0%
Great Salt Lake Audubon	$1,000	1	1%
Salt Lake Harm Reduction Project	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.

David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 107 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 107.

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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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT107.7× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Ihc Health Services 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.

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About David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation

How much does David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation give?: David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation reported 69 grants totaling $1,700,270 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 81 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (34%), Environment (13%), Human Services (9%).
Who are David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Utah Food Bank ($678k), Madeleine Choir School ($512k), Spy Hop Productions ($449k).
Does David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation.
Where is David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation based?: David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation is based in UT.