· Private foundation
Ebj & Msj 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LDS CHURCH | $48,114 |
| WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,873 |
| PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FDN | $2,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILL RESEARCH | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $1,916 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,916 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| MENTORS INTERNATIONAL | $900 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $900 |
| OGDEN RESCUE MISSION | $650 |
| MCKAY DEE FOUNDATION | $650 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $450 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $450 |
| FAMILY WATCH INTERNATIONAL | $450 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $450 |
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, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
- MIMentors International9× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +261%
- RMRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +9%
- OSOPERATION SMILE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- UUSUone grant, 2021 · $2k
- OPOGDEN PIANO FESTIVALone grant, 2023 · $300
- MMISCELLANEOUSone grant, 2022 · $300
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.
We improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our local community to provide resources and programs that focus on health, education, and income.
Ronald McDonald House Mountain West surrounds families with the support they need to be near and care for their seriously ill or injured children.
United way of salt lake (uwsl) mobilizes people and resources to support basic needs and education.
The Utah Medical Association is a professional resource for member physicians providing educational opportunities and dissemination of medical knowledge and practices.
Our mission is to promote peace and mutual understanding by connecting people across cultures through education, dialogue, and collaborative partnerships.
We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.
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…
Background donorconnect, headquartered in the salt lake city area, is a federally designated, nonprofit organ procurement organization (opo) that serves utah, southeastern idaho, western wyoming, and elko, nevada. its service area extends…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern Utah and the most unlike its peers is Bonneville Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 31 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 Mentors International ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BONNEVILLE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 ↗
- Who funds BOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Utah · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ebj & Msj 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.