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Douglas & Shelley Felt Family Found at a glance

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Douglas & Shelley Felt Family Found

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.

$69k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$183kReligion$153kHealth$68kArts & Culture$33kEnvironment$10kPhilanthropy$8kHuman Services$6kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS$27,600
WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC$11,000
BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY$2,400
OGDEN SURGICAL-MEDICAL SOCIETY$2,000
OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION$1,500
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES$1,500
WEBER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FNDN$1,000
ONSTAGE OGDEN$1,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH$1,000
UTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$1,000
TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$500
YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH$500
TRAILS FOUNDATION NORTHERN UTAH$500
Individual grant recipient$500
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, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $500 → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $500 → 8%OGDEN RESCUE MISSION: $100 → 9%OGDEN RESCUE MISSION: $100 → 9%OGDEN RESCUE MISSION: $100 → 9%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$467k · 27 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
5

Total granted

$467k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
0%

Still filing today

52%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • SM
    SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +754%
  • OS
    OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +40%
  • WC
    WEBER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue -78%
  • IH
    INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue 0%
  • CA
    COLLEGIUM AESCULAPIUM FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $200 · revenue +86%
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 Public Lands Alliance
Education
3
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
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4
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Ogden Family Foundation
Education
6
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
7
Utah Swat Inc
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8
Utah Wild Sheep Foundation

To secure and maintain habitat for the northern american wild sheep to benefit of hunters and non hunters hunters

Animals
9
Sci Utah Foundation

To ensure the future of wildlife through conservation, education and hunting.

Animals
10
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
11
Idaho Medical Association Foundation Inc
Health
12
Utah Valley Operafest

Opera Education and Performance

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Northern Utah; the most unlike its peers is Utah Shakespeare Festival 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

19 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. 19 of the 33 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS: $152,500 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDSWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITYOGDEN SURGICAL-MEDICAL SOCIETY: $18,000 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $15,900 · OtherUTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $13,000 · Other+19 more: $30,810 · Other+19 moreSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $52,600 · HealthSEAGER MEMORIAL …WEBER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDA: $9,000 · HealthWEBER COUNTY MED…Midtown Community Health Center Inc: $5,500 · HealthMidtown Communit…+1 more: $500 · HealthOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $22,900 · EducationUTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH: $7,500 · PhilanthropyBEAR LAKE WATCH: $5,300 · EnvironmentGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $2,000 · Animals
Other$355,210Health$67,600Education$22,900Arts & Culture$8,500Philanthropy$7,500Environment$5,300Animals$2,000

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 budgetSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $52,600 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $22,900 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWEBER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDA: $9,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetONSTAGE OGDEN: $7,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMidtown Community Health Center Inc: $5,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBEAR LAKE WATCH: $5,300 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $2,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetST ANNE'S CENTER: $1,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNION STATION FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEBER PATHWAYS: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGIUM AESCULAPIUM FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 1.3% 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 SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEBER COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDA ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ONSTAGE OGDEN ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH ↗
  • Who funds Midtown Community Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds BEAR LAKE WATCH ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds GREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR ↗
  • Who funds ST ANNE'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WEBER PATHWAYS ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE ↗
  • Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 ↗
  • Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGIUM AESCULAPIUM FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Lawrence & Janet Dee …Msl Family FoundationThe Alan and Jeanne H…Beaver Creek Foundati…Nebeker Family Founda…Rich Junior E & Blanc…Ralph Nye Charitable …Donnell B & Elizabeth…Willard L Eccles Char…George S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…Theodore & Elizabeth …
Lawrence & Janet Dee FoundationUT28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Msl Family Foundation · The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation · Beaver Creek Foundation · Nebeker Family Foundation · Rich Junior E & Blanche B Fdn · Ralph Nye Charitable Foundation · Donnell B & Elizabeth D Stewart Education Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Theodore & Elizabeth Schmidt Family 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 Douglas & Shelley Felt Family Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Douglas & Shelley Felt Family Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    8report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Douglas & Shelley Felt Family Found?

    Find your warmest path to Douglas & Shelley Felt Family Found 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 33 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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