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Garn Family Foundation at a glance

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Garn Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$310kEducation$293kHousing & Shelter$265kInternational$146kArts & Culture$35kHealth$27kFood & Nutrition$20kPhilanthropy$500
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$833
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAVIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, 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%UNSHELTERED UTAH: $45k → 8%SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $260k → 6%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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$661k · 7 repeat orgs$436k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$661k
$436k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+58%

Still filing today

43%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • DE
    Davis Education Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +52%
  • DA
    DAVIS ARTS COUNCIL
    3× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +23%
  • GC
    GUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $23k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $260k · revenue -30%
  • FH
    FAMILY HUMANITARIAN EXPERIENCE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -17%
  • UU
    UNSHELTERED UTAH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $45k
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 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
2
Utah Valley Family Support Center Inc

Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.

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3
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
4
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

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5
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
6
Utah Foundation

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.…

Public Benefit
7
Sage Advocacy Center

Educate, advocate, and empower to end violence.

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8
Haven

For more than four decades, haven has been bozemans trusted community partner in providing safe shelter, support (including a 24-hour support line and legal advocacy), and counseling for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, sex…

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9
Northeastern Utah Friends Against Family Violence

Friends Against Family Violence (FAFV) is a community based nonprofit domestic violence program. FAFV provides services, shelter, crisis intervention, and prevention in the Tri-County of Uintah, Duchesne, and Daggett. We provide services…

Health
10
Utahns Against Hunger

Our mission is to increase access to food across utah through advocacy, outreach, and education. utahns against hunger is utahs only state-wide anti-hunger non-profit organization working on public policy and advocacy for federal nutrition…

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11
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peak Grantmaking Inc; the most unlike its peers is Davis Education 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

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 14 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Safe Harbor: $265,000 · OtherSafe HarborWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITYDavis Education Foundation: $70,800 · OtherDavis Education FoundationCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LATTER DAY S: $45,750 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LATTER DAY SMatthew and Erin Read: $27,415 · OtherGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC: $22,500 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherSAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $260,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTERUNSHELTERED UTAH INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesUNSHELTERED UTAH INCFAMILY HUMANITARIAN EXPERIENCE: $100,000 · EducationFAMILY HUM…DAVIS ARTS COUNCIL: $30,000 · Arts & CultureOUR RESCUE: $5,129 · Arts & CultureWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $20,000 · Community ImprovementPEAK GRANTMAKING INC: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$636,465Human Services$305,000Education$100,000Arts & Culture$35,129Community Improvement$20,000Philanthropy$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $260,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetFAMILY HUMANITARIAN EXPERIENCE: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDavis Education Foundation: $70,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDAVIS ARTS COUNCIL: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $5,129 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEAK GRANTMAKING INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Ihc Health Services I…Utah's PromiseSorenson Legacy Found…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Ihc Health Services IncUT15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ihc Health Services Inc · Utah's Promise · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Garn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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