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DME Foundation at a glance

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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.

$62k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$254kFood & Nutrition$12kHuman Services$11kReligion$9kHealth$6kCivil Rights$5kRecreation & Sports$3kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $41k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$600k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Utah State University$41,000
Gorongosa Project$5,000
The Church of Jesus Christ of LDS$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Center for Women and Children in Cr$2,000
Rods Heros$2,000
Utah Food Bank$2,000
Tabithas Way$2,000
Stitching Hearts Worldwide$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Trail Alliance of Southern Utah$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Honor Flight$500
Nebo Education Foundation$200
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RIP Medical Debt: $2k → 9%RIP Medical Debt: $1k → 13%RIP Medical Debt: $513 → 9%RIP Medical Debt: $1k → 13%Stitching Hearts Worldwide: $1k → 8%Tabithas Way: $2k → 8%Tabithas Way: $2k → 8%Common Ground Outdoor Adventures: $1k → 12%Tabithas Way: $2k → 8%Tabithas Way: $1k → 8%Tabithas Way: $1k → 8%Rods Heros: $2k → 8%Wrap the World with Quilts: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
NY
NV
CA
UT
VA
NC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of DME Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in UT; by stated purpose, 87%.

DME Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$281k · 10 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
19

Total granted

$281k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+5%

Still filing today

60%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitAnimalsCivil RightsOther
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

  • TW
    TABITHA'S WAY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +128%
  • MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $5k · revenue ×11
  • TC
    The Center for Women and Children in Crisis
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • DY
    DO YOUR PART INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • LF
    LIVE FOR LEVI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -36%
  • GG
    GODS GARAGE
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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 Geological Foundation
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2
Utah Domestic Violence Legal Services

Utah Homicide Survivors provides holistic legal representation to families of homicide victims.

Crime & Legal
3
Utah Swat Inc
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4
Utah Regional Housing Corporation

Provide housing to low-income families in provo, utah.

Housing & Shelter
5
Shelter Providers of Utah

To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.

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6
Hope Worldwide Utah

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.

International
7
Ukrainian Refugee Foundation

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,…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
The Utah Scholarship Foundation

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.

Education
9
Central Utah Food Sharing

Food bank - to assist those families who face the dilemma of paying rent or buying food.

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10
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
11
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
12
Girls On the Run Utah

Educate and prepare girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living through the power of running.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Valley Refugees Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $123,000 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYSLCC Foundation: $120,000 · OtherSLCC Foundation+22 more: $27,300 · Other+22 moreTABITHA'S WAY: $8,000 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $4,513 · Human ServicesRODS HEROES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSTITCHING HEARTS WORLDWIDE: $1,000 · Human ServicesWRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTS: $1,000 · Human ServicesCITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $1,000 · Human ServicesNEBO EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,200 · PhilanthropyUTAH VALLEY REFUGEES INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyGorongosa Project Inc: $5,000 · Civil RightsThe Center for Women and Children in Crisis: $4,000 · HealthLIVE FOR LEVI FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthMountain West String Academy: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE SHAMBA FOUNDATION: $500 · International
Other$270,300Human Services$18,513Philanthropy$8,200Civil Rights$5,000Health$5,000Arts & Culture$1,500International$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTABITHA'S WAY: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEBO EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $4,513 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Women and Children in Crisis: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRODS HEROES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountain West String Academy: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLIVE FOR LEVI FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH VALLEY REFUGEES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHAMBA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH HONOR FLIGHT: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCANOPY CAT RESCUE: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 Found…Dale H Ballard Jr Fam…Thom & Gail Williamse…The Gibney Family Fou…Ihc Health Services I…Larry H Miller and Ga…George S and Dolores …American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%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 · 0–75%
    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.

    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 38 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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