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DME 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Utah State University | $41,000 |
| Gorongosa Project | $5,000 |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS | $2,500 |
| Rods Heros | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Tabithas Way | $2,000 |
| Center for Women and Children in Cr | $2,000 |
| Utah Food Bank | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Stitching Hearts Worldwide | $1,000 |
| Trail Alliance of Southern Utah | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Honor Flight | $500 |
| Nebo Education Foundation | $200 |
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 (FY18–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of DME Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in UT; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TWTABITHA'S WAY5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +128%
MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC4× · 2018–2022 · $5k · revenue ×17- TCThe Center for Women and Children in Crisis2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- WTWRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTSone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- UVUTAH VALLEY REFUGEES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +233%
- GGGODS GARAGEone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Utah Homicide Survivors provides holistic legal representation to families of homicide victims.
Provide housing to low-income families in provo, utah.
To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
Hope worldwide utah was created to serve refugee populations around the world. we seek to serve those in acute need and to offer opporunities for volunteers to join us in humanitarian trips.
URF is a 501(c)(30 nonprofit based in California. We receive funds through private donations and spend them on several programs, providing aid, rescue, and relief for Ukrainian war victims in the form of cash donations for food, shelter,…
To provide scholarships for Utah residents between the ages of 18 and 28 who have graduated from high school and are seeking additional educational opportunities.
Food bank - to assist those families who face the dilemma of paying rent or buying food.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Educate and prepare girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living through the power of running.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Valley Refugees Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gorongosa Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 13 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 38 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 TABITHA'S WAY ↗
- Who funds NEBO EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gorongosa Project Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Women and Children in Crisis ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RODS HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Mountain West String Academy ↗
- Who funds WRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTS ↗
- Who funds UTAH VALLEY REFUGEES INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds STITCHING HEARTS WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds LIVE FOR LEVI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH HONOR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHAMBA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANOPY CAT RESCUE ↗
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 · Dale H Ballard Jr Family Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family Foundation · The Gibney Family Foundation Inc · Ihc Health Services Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 DME 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.
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.