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Fang Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$322k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$878kArts & Culture$430kPhilanthropy$24kEmployment$5kYouth Development$4kCivil Rights$3kHousing & Shelter$3kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $253k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hale Centre Theatre$200,000
WESTMINISTER COLLEGE$53,125
Claremont McKenna College$25,000
SALT LAKE CHINESE CHOIR$15,000
Rowland Hall$10,000
Salt Lake Rotary Foundation$7,032
The Off Broadway Theater$5,000
Natural History Museum of Utah$3,500
Chinese Society of Utah$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
University of Utah$800
Humane Society of Utah$520
Hopebox Theatre$100
MS Society$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Road Home: $3k → 8%South Valley Services: $100 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$1.3M
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+77%

Still filing today

55%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • RH
    ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $435k · revenue +81%
  • HC
    HALE CENTRE THEATRE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $333k · revenue +59%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • CR
    Chinese Railroad Workers Descendant
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +39%
  • FF
    Fathers Families Coalition of Utah
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
Midwives College of Utah

Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.

Education
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
Salt Lake Acting Company

Salt lake acting company's mission is to engage and enrich community through brave, contemporary theatre.

Arts & Culture
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
7
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
8
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.

9
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
10
United Way of Greater Salt Lake

United way of salt lake (uwsl) mobilizes people and resources to support basic needs and education.

Human Services
11
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah and the most unlike its peers is Salt Lake Chinese Choir. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL — $435,050 · EducationROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOLWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $410,725 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY+1 more — $500 · EducationHALE CENTRE THEATRE — $332,565 · Arts & CultureHALE CENTRE THEATRESalt Lake Chinese Choir — $47,500 · Arts & CultureSalt Lake Chinese Choir+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureClaremont McKenna College — $25,000 · OtherClaremont …UNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $24,019 · OtherUNIVERSITY…Salt Lake Rotary Foundation — $24,018 · OtherSalt Lake …The Off Broadway Theater — $22,000 · OtherThe Off Br…Individual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual…CHINESE SOCIETY OF UTAH INC — $5,000 · OtherChinese Railroad Workers Descendant — $5,000 · Other+7 more — $4,391 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ROAD HOME — $2,581 · Human ServicesSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC — $100 · Human ServicesHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH — $1,020 · AnimalsThe Other Side Academy — $700 · Crime & LegalThe Community Foundation of Utah — $250 · Philanthropy
Education$846,275Arts & Culture$385,065Other$124,428Youth Development$3,000Human Services$2,681Animals$1,020Crime & Legal$700Philanthropy$250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL — $435,050 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $410,725 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHALE CENTRE THEATRE — $332,565 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSalt Lake Chinese Choir — $47,500 over 5y, 31% of budgetClaremont McKenna College — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME — $2,581 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH — $1,020 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Other Side Academy — $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HALE CENTRE THEATRE
  • Who funds Salt Lake Chinese Choir
  • Who funds Claremont McKenna College
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH
  • Who funds The Other Side Academy
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of Utah
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH
  • Who funds SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY 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.

George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT17.8× affinity6 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 · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Union Pacific Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Fang Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fang Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fang Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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