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Emma Eccles Jones 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $390k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH EEJ FUND CO DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $2,200,000 |
| BALLET WEST | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SPENCER F ECCLES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $344,000 |
| MCGILLIS SCHOOL | $300,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION & HUMAN SERVICES | $250,000 |
| MADELEINE CHOIR SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| UTAH SYMPHONY I UTAH OPERA | $125,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS | $100,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY NORA ECCLES HARRISON MUSEUM OF ARTS | $100,000 |
| BALLET WEST | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH UTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $50,000 |
| LISTENERS COMMUNITY RADIO OF UTAH INC DBA KRCL | $50,000 |
| UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA AND MUSICAL THEATRE | $50,000 |
| THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WEBER-DAVIS | $50,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $610k) 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.
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 +14% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k 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
- BWBALLET WEST5× · 2021–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +48%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH5× · 2021–2025 · $605k · revenue +92%
- USUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA5× · 2021–2025 · $525k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF UTAH SPENCER FOX ECCLES MEDICAL SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $1.5M
- USUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY NURSING PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $500k
- WUWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -18%
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.
Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art believes in the power of the art of our time. Through programming, advocacy, and collaboration, we work with artists and communities to build a better world.
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…
To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.
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…
Utah film center inspires and engages diverse audiences to initiate conversation and community building through curated film exhibition, educational programs, and artist support.
To prepare students to become confident and creative builders of their future, equipped through the arts and academics to take responsibility for shaping their communities.
To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 67 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 BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCGILLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CACHE VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds OGDEN VALLEY LAND TRUST INC ↗
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: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family 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 Emma Eccles Jones 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.
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