· Private foundation
Duane and Marci Shaw Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JON M HUNTSMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $20,000 |
| HALE CENTRE THEATRE | $5,950 |
| THE INTERPRETER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES AT BYU | $5,000 |
| THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS | $2,500 |
| WEST VALLEY ARTS FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +124% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MGMORE GOOD FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue +124%
- BOBOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL5× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +460%
- HCHALE CENTRE THEATRE6× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OFone grant, 2021 · $575k
- ICINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR LAWone grant, 2021 · $5k
- JDJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $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.
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.
Support various performing arts in utah.
To produce the annual utah arts festival, for the purpose of promoting the arts and enhancing the quality of life in utah
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
To promote, present and support artists, arts organizations and arts activities in order to further the development of the arts community and to benefit the public by expanding awareness, access and participation.
Music & arts performances
Utah film center inspires and engages diverse audiences to initiate conversation and community building through curated film exhibition, educational programs, and artist support.
The Utah Chamber Artists (UCA) is a world renowned, not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 to provide audiences with an artistic force that provides a wide variety of music of the highest caliber, presented in the finest manner. UCA…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MORE GOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds HALE CENTRE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE INTERPRETER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds West Valley Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds Utah Foster Care Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Ashton Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Woolley Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Duane and Marci Shaw Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Duane and Marci Shaw Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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