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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 FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $114k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $675k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $912k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Madeleine Choir School$200,000
Moran Eye Center$117,000
Utah Food Bank$100,000
Summit Land Conservancy$75,000
Shriners Hospital For Children$65,000
Christmas Box International$55,000
The Nature Conservancy$50,000
Adopt A Native Elder$50,000
Maliheh Free Clinic$50,000
World Central Kitchen$50,000
The Rural Utah Project$50,000
Catholic Community Svcs of Utah$50,000
Friends of the Children - Utah$40,000
Tree Utah$40,000
Friends for Sight$35,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $818k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%One Heart Worldwide: $50k → 11%Wabisabi: $10k → 11%One Heart Worldwide: $25k → 11%One Heart Worldwide: $20k → 11%Senior Charity Care Foundation: $15k → 6%Utah Pet Partners: $6k → 8%Utah Pet Partners: $5k → 8%Utah Pet Partners: $4k → 8%American Indian Services: $5k → 8%People Helping People: $5k → 8%Utah Parent Center: $5k → 8%Utah Parent Center: $5k → 8%Ability Found: $10k → 8%Ability Found: $5k → 8%Ability Found: $5k → 8%Intermountain Therapy Animals: $3k → 8%The Sandy Club: $20k → 8%Utah Diaper Bank: $15k → 8%Utah Diaper Bank: $15k → 8%The Sandy Club: $7k → 8%Utah Diaper Bank: $5k → 8%Frank Cordova Foundation: $1k → 8%Frank Cordova Foundation: $1k → 8%Frank Cordova Foundation: $1k → 8%Frank Cordova Foundation: $1k → 8%Frank Cordova Foundation: $1k → 8%Frank Cordova Foundation: $1k → 8%Adopt A Native Elder: $100k → 8%Adopt A Native Elder: $50k → 8%Adopt A Native Elder: $50k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $40k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $30k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $30k → 8%Adopt A Native Elder: $30k → 8%Adopt A Native Elder: $25k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $20k → 8%Adopt A Native Elder: $20k → 8%Adopt A Native Elder: $15k → 8%The INN Between: $28k → 8%The INN Between: $25k → 8%The INN Between: $15k → 8%The INN Between: $15k → 8%The INN Between: $10k → 8%The INN Between: $10k → 8%Utah Youth Village: $25k → 8%Utah Youth Village: $15k → 8%Neighborhood House: $15k → 8%The Road Home: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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CA
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AZ
DC
HI

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 98 repeat orgs$786k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

98 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

98
45

Total granted

$12M
$608k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+4%

Still filing today

68%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationOther

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

  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $678k · revenue +93%
  • SH
    SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $449k · revenue +134%
  • TC
    THE CHRISTMAS BOX INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2017–2024 · $292k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • JV
    JORDAN VALLEY CONSERVATION GARDENS
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -56% · 66% of their budget
  • TW
    The Wildlands Conservancy
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +138%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
2
Utah Geological Foundation
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3
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…

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4
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
5
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

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6
Slc Bike Share

To provide alternative environmentally responsible transportation to downtown travelers through a bike share program.

Public Benefit
7
The Community Foundation of Utah

We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.

Philanthropy
8
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
9
Utah Safety Council

The mission of the Utah Safety Council is to save lives by promoting safety and health through education, services, and products.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
11
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
12
Envision Utah

Envision Utah is a nonpartisan public-private partnership that engages people to create and sustain communities that are beautiful, prosperous, healthy, and neighborly for current and future residents.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Children and the most unlike its peers is Aspen Magdalene House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%3%<5yr16%11%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr8%23%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%1%<5yr16%5%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr15%40%20–35yr8%14%35–55yr13%31%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/120
the rest of the field
16%
1,376/8,753

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.

04the grantee network

111 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. 111 of the 160 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
108/111
Grantees still filing
75/111
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

John A Moran Eye Center — $3,150,000 · OtherJohn A Moran Eye CenterCathedral of the Madeleine — $697,650 · OtherCathedral of the MadeleineUTAH FOOD BANK — $677,500 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKMADELEINE CHOIR SCHOOL — $512,386 · OtherMADELEINE CHOIR SCHOOLShriners Hospital For Children — $325,000 · Other+95 more — $3,827,249 · Other+95 moreSummit Land Conservancy — $363,650 · EnvironmentSummit La…TREE UTAH — $124,000 · EnvironmentTREE UTAHJORDAN VALLEY CONSERVATION GARDENS — $100,000 · EnvironmentJORDAN VA…The Wildlands Conservancy — $100,000 · EnvironmentThe Wildl…UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $85,000 · EnvironmentUTAH OPEN…HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE OF UTAH — $63,600 · EnvironmentHEALTHY E…Sageland Collaborative — $53,500 · EnvironmentUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC — $40,000 · Environment+8 more — $117,000 · Environment+8 moreAdopt-A-Native Elder — $290,000 · Human ServicesUtah Pride Center Inc — $120,000 · Human ServicesTHE INN BETWEEN — $103,232 · Human ServicesONE HEART WORLDWIDE — $95,000 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE — $40,000 · Human ServicesUTAH DIAPER BANK — $35,000 · Human Services+13 more — $136,000 · Human ServicesSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS — $448,870 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH — $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH — $33,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc — $195,000 · HealthMaliheh Free Clinic — $175,000 · HealthTHE SHARING PLACE — $105,000 · HealthYOUTH FUTURES — $34,500 · Health+5 more — $33,000 · HealthTHE CHRISTMAS BOX INTERNATIONAL — $291,900 · Community ImprovementWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS — $86,000 · Community ImprovementYEE HAOLNII DOO — $33,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $12,500 · Community ImprovementWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $100,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $95,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $75,000 · InternationalYOUTHLINC — $36,750 · InternationalBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD — $22,500 · International+2 more — $12,500 · International
Other$9,189,785Environment$1,046,750Human Services$819,232Youth Development$642,870Health$542,500Community Improvement$423,400International$341,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $677,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS — $448,870 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy — $363,650 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetTHE CHRISTMAS BOX INTERNATIONAL — $291,900 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetAdopt-A-Native Elder — $290,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY — $212,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $210,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc — $195,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS FOR SIGHT — $175,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic — $175,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA — $165,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetBALLET WEST — $156,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSALT LAKE CITY BICYCLE COLLECTIVE — $130,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetTREE UTAH — $124,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetUtah Pride Center Inc — $120,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH — $115,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHARING PLACE — $105,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN — $103,232 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetJORDAN VALLEY CONSERVATION GARDENS — $100,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetThe Wildlands Conservancy — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $95,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE HEART WORLDWIDE — $95,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS — $86,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $85,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY — $77,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWASATCH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE — $67,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE OF UTAH — $63,600 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC — $55,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSageland Collaborative — $53,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetJewish Family Service — $53,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE — $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH — $45,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetWORK ACTIVITY CENTER INC — $43,400 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFUTUREINDESIGN INC — $41,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUtah Children — $40,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $37,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTHLINC — $36,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUTAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH DIAPER BANK — $35,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetYOUTH FUTURES — $34,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budget
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 UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds Summit Land Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds THE CHRISTMAS BOX INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS FOR SIGHT ↗
  • Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA ↗
  • Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
  • Who funds SALT LAKE CITY BICYCLE COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds TREE UTAH ↗
  • Who funds Utah Pride Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE SHARING PLACE ↗
  • Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗
  • Who funds JORDAN VALLEY CONSERVATION GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds The Wildlands Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ONE HEART WORLDWIDE ↗
  • Who funds WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds WASATCH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…George S and Dolores …Lawrence & Janet Dee …The Community Foundat…Larry H Miller and Ga…McCarthey Family Foun…Henry W & Leslie M Es…Dominion Energy Chari…Kennecott Utah Copper…Marriner S Eccles Fou…Willard L Eccles Char…Ihc Health Services I…
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

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 David Kelby Johnson Memorial 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
44report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 160 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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