· Private foundation
Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARE FOR LIFE | $8,000 |
| IDAHO FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $6,000 |
| FOURTH STREET CLINIC | $6,000 |
| RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| AUSTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME DEVELOPMENT DEPT | $4,500 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| ADOPT-A-NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM | $4,000 |
| SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY | $4,000 |
| PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $3,500 |
| DIABETES ACTION RESEARCH ED FOUND | $3,500 |
| SALT LAKE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF UT | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% 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.
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 +63% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- IFIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +48%
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +93%
- WHWasatch Homeless Health Care9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- HIHELPHOPELIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +136%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- TUTO URKAINE WITH LOVEone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
The National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho, a major nonprofit health organization, is dedicated to preventing diseases of the kidney, improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and families affected by kidney disease, and…
The mission/vision of Intermountain Quality Innovations (ImQI) is to advance the improvement of healthcare quality provided to people with acute and chronic conditions, including ESRD, through clinical & logistical support,…
To improve access to quality health and dental care for low-income uninsured men, women, and children in Utah County.
Fundraising for healthcare to support patient care, medical education, and clinical research for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics and other similar nonprofit organizations.
The Utah Medical Association is a professional resource for member physicians providing educational opportunities and dissemination of medical knowledge and practices.
To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care
Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.
To improve quality of life through comprehensive, self-empowered, culturally-sensitive healthcare and amazing customer service.
UAF Legacy Health provides cross-culturally responsive healthcare for LGBTQ+ Utahns and people living with HIV.
The organization's purpose is focused on improving and advancing health care in utah to be more affordable, with better health outcomes by accelerating, enabling and promoting healthcare innovation.
The organization's mission is to help survivors of torture living in utah to heal from their physical and psychological injuries and rebuild their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helphopelive Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yoga Forward 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 31 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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 IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Wasatch Homeless Health Care ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds AUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder ↗
- Who funds SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds DIABETES ACTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Care for Life Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds WILD GRIEF ↗
- Who funds UTAH PET PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Yoga Forward Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRACLEFEET ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
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 · American Express Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Utah Medical Association Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Drew Arthur Wendt 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.
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.