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Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.1M
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
10
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$2,250,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 13
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
AnimalsArts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202210$2.6M50%
FY20213$3.2M100%
FY202010$11M70%
FY20193$1.1M0%
FY201813$994k77%
FY201710$819kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Health$8.1MArts & Culture$4.6MEducation$4.0MPhilanthropy$1.5MEnvironment$1.2MAnimals$1.1MRecreation & Sports$660kScience & Tech$125kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Utah$7,554,9994n/a
Weber State University$2,275,0002n/a
Grizzly Discovery Center Inc$1,075,000223%
Egyptian Theatre Foundation Inc$1,011,0001n/a
Greater Ogden Community Nature Ctr$400,000124%
Ogden First Inc$325,000239%
Community Health Partners Inc$60,00020%
Growing Up New Mexicoinc$50,00011%
Davis Technical College Foundation Inc$50,00015%
Westminster University$30,00010%
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All grantees of Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Utah$7,554,9994n/a
Weber State University$2,275,0002n/a
Grizzly Discovery Center Inc$1,075,000223%
Egyptian Theatre Foundation Inc$1,011,0001n/a
Greater Ogden Community Nature Ctr$400,000124%
Ogden First Inc$325,000239%
Community Health Partners Inc$60,00020%
Growing Up New Mexicoinc$50,00011%
Davis Technical College Foundation Inc$50,00015%
Westminster University$30,00010%
Friends for Sight$22,50022%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc$10,00010%
Weber County School District Foundation$7,50010%
Treehouse Children's Museum$5,00010%
Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center$5,00010%
Scottish Rite Foundation of Utah$3,50011%

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrizzly Discovery Center Inc: $1,075,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetGreater Ogden Community Nature Ctr: $400,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetOgden First Inc: $325,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetCommunity Health Partners Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGrowing Up New Mexicoinc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDavis Technical College Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetWestminster University: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends for Sight: $22,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWeber County School District Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTreehouse Children's Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetScottish Rite Foundation of Utah: $3,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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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 13.

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 FoundationUT17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation

How much does Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation give?
Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $4,060,440 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Health (38%), Arts & Culture (22%), Education (19%).
Who are Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: University of Utah ($7.6M), Weber State University ($2.3M), Grizzly Discovery Center Inc ($1.1M).
Does Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke 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 Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation.
Where is Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation based?
Dr Ezekiel R & Edna Wattis Dumke Foundation is based in UT.

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 36 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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