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Emma Eccles Jones Foundation at a glance

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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.

$5.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$8.8MEducation$8.3MArts & Culture$5.3MHealth$1.5MYouth Development$910kHuman Services$743kFood & Nutrition$295kEnvironment$260kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $390k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.6M
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$170M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE-ELDER: $30k → 5%ADOPT-A-NATIVE-ELDER: $10k → 5%ADOPT-A-NATIVE-ELDER: $10k → 5%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $10k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $10k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $10k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $10k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $10k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $75k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $75k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $25k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $25k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $25k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $45k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $10k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $10k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $10k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $30k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $30k → 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.
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 44 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
16

Total granted

$23M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-17%

Still filing today

52%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • BW
    BALLET WEST
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +48%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $605k · revenue +92%
  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $525k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SPENCER FOX ECCLES MEDICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M
  • US
    UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY NURSING PROGRAM
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • WU
    WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -18%
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
Utah Arts Academy

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'…

Education
2
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Utah Arts Alliance

To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.

Arts & Culture
5
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

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6
Utah World Trade Center

World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.

Community Improvement
7
Utah Chamber Artists

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Utah Film Center

Utah film center inspires and engages diverse audiences to initiate conversation and community building through curated film exhibition, educational programs, and artist support.

Arts & Culture
9
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
10
Salt Lake Arts Academy

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.

Education
11
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

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…

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12
Utah Geological Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 67 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/35
Grantees still filing
18/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DEVELOPMENT OFFICE: $4,400,992 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH DEVELOPMENT OFFICEUNIVERSITY OF UTAH EEJ FUND CO DEVELOPMENT OFFICE: $4,370,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH EEJ FUND CO DEVELOPMENT OFFICEUNIVERSITY OF UTAH COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $3,550,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH COLLEGE OF EDUCATIONUNIVERSITY OF UTAH SPENCER FOX ECCLES MEDICAL SCHOOL: $1,500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH SPENCER FOX ECCLES MEDICAL SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF UTAH SPENCER F ECCLES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1,200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH SPENCER F ECCLES SCHOOL OF MEDICINEUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION & HUMAN SERVICES: $1,199,994 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF EDUCATION & HUMAN SERVICES+40 more: $4,973,500 · Other+40 moreBALLET WEST: $2,350,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WESTUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $525,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY…REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE: $130,000 · Arts & CultureCACHE VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $110,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $159,500 · Arts & CultureYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $225,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House Association: $210,000 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $75,000 · Human ServicesAdopt-A-Native Elder: $50,000 · Human ServicesIntermountain Therapy Animals: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE MCGILLIS SCHOOL: $300,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $325,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $100,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $98,000 · HealthWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $235,000 · Community ImprovementJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $200,000 · International
Other$21,195,236Arts & Culture$3,274,500Human Services$610,000Education$550,000Health$523,000Community Improvement$235,000International$200,000

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 budgetBALLET WEST: $2,350,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $605,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $525,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $325,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MCGILLIS SCHOOL: $300,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $235,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $230,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $225,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $210,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $200,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah: $150,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetREPERTORY DANCE THEATRE: $130,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCACHE VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $110,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $98,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE: $70,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOGDEN VALLEY LAND TRUST INC: $60,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WEBER-DAVIS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAdopt-A-Native Elder: $50,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMIRACLE OF AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetIntermountain Therapy Animals: $50,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $24,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $19,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN WEST HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Leonardo: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 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 Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds GUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

George S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…Marriner S Eccles Fou…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Sorenson Legacy Found…Hemingway FoundationMcCarthey Family Foun…Pacificorp Foundation…Henry W & Leslie M Es…David Kelby Johnson M…Dominion Energy Chari…Larry H Miller and Ga…
George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT46.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Emma Eccles Jones Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emma Eccles Jones Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Emma Eccles Jones Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Emma Eccles Jones Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 67 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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