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Drew Arthur Wendt Memorial Foundation at a glance

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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.

$86k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$377kFood & Nutrition$146kHuman Services$97kHousing & Shelter$66kRecreation & Sports$35kPhilanthropy$23kYouth Development$18kInternational$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$843k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARE FOR LIFE$8,000
UTAH FOOD BANK$7,000
IDAHO FOOD BANK$7,000
SMILE TRAIN$6,000
FOURTH STREET CLINIC$6,000
AUSTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE$5,000
RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$5,000
THE ROAD HOME DEVELOPMENT DEPT$4,500
HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION$4,500
SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY$4,000
ADOPT-A-NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM$4,000
PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$3,500
DIABETES ACTION RESEARCH ED FOUND$3,500
BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF UT$3,000
CHARITY NAVIGATOR$3,000
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UTAH PET PARTNERS: $1k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOC: $2k → 8%UTAH PET PARTNERS: $2k → 8%UTAH PET PARTNERS: $2k → 8%UTAH PET PARTNERS: $1k → 8%UTAH PET PARTNERS: $1k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $5k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $5k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $5k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $5k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $4k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $4k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $4k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $4k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $4k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $7k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $6k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOC: $3k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOC: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOC: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOC: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOC: $1k → 8%ROAD HOME CO DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $5k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $5k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $5k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $5k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $5k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $4k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $4k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $4k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $4k → 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
IA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MD
AZ
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$762k · 24 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
5

Total granted

$762k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
0%

Still filing today

79%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IF
    IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +48%
  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +93%
  • WH
    Wasatch Homeless Health Care
    9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • HI
    HELPHOPELIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +136%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • TU
    TO URKAINE WITH LOVE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho

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…

Health
2
Intermountain End-Stage Renal Disease Network Inc

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,…

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3
Community Health Connect

To improve access to quality health and dental care for low-income uninsured men, women, and children in Utah County.

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4
University Hospital Foundation

Fundraising for healthcare to support patient care, medical education, and clinical research for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics and other similar nonprofit organizations.

Philanthropy
5
Utah Medical Association

The Utah Medical Association is a professional resource for member physicians providing educational opportunities and dissemination of medical knowledge and practices.

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6
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
7
Utah Foster Care Foundation Inc

We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care

Human Services
8
Southwest Utah Community Health Center

Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.

Health
9
Utah Navajo Health System Inc

To improve quality of life through comprehensive, self-empowered, culturally-sensitive healthcare and amazing customer service.

Health
10
Utah Aids Foundation

UAF Legacy Health provides cross-culturally responsive healthcare for LGBTQ+ Utahns and people living with HIV.

Health
11
One Utah Health Collaborative

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.

Health
12
Utah Health & Human Rights Project

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helphopelive Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 32 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTAH FOOD BANK: $73,000 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKSMILE TRAIN INC: $59,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCPRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDAT: $32,000 · OtherPRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATSPECIAL OLYMPICS: $24,500 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICSCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $18,900 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORKBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF UT: $18,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF UTSALT LAKE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $16,500 · OtherSALT LAKE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY+5 more: $21,250 · Other+5 moreWasatch Homeless Health Care: $69,500 · HealthWasatch Homeless Health CareHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $49,500 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATIONRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $45,500 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of th…AUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $40,000 · HealthAUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTEDIABETES ACTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $37,500 · HealthDIABETES ACTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATIO…+3 more: $14,000 · Health+3 moreTHE ROAD HOME: $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOMEAdopt-A-Native Elder: $39,000 · Human ServicesAdopt-A-Native ElderSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY …Charity Navigator: $22,500 · Human ServicesCharity NavigatorUTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $11,500 · Human ServicesUTAH POLICE CIVILIAN AS…UTAH PET PARTNERS: $6,500 · Human ServicesIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $73,100 · Food & NutritionIDAHO FOOD…Care for Life Inc: $13,000 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC: $8,500 · Recreation & SportsYoga Forward Inc: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $5,250 · Housing & ShelterDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,000 · Education
Other$263,150Health$256,000Human Services$162,500Food & Nutrition$73,100Philanthropy$13,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Housing & Shelter$5,250Education$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $73,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $73,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $69,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $59,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $49,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $45,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $45,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetAdopt-A-Native Elder: $39,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC: $38,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetDIABETES ACTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCharity Navigator: $22,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $18,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCare for Life Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $11,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWILD GRIEF: $8,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetUTAH PET PARTNERS: $6,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLEFEET: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 ↗

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…American Express Foun…C Scott & Dorothy E W…Utah Medical Associat…McCarthey Family Foun…George S and Dolores …Give Lively Foundatio…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 32 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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