· Private foundation
George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of GEORGE S AND DOLORES DORE ECCLES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k86 grants · $453k
- $10k–50k228 grants · $4.7M
- $50k–250k64 grants · $5.9M
- $250k+22 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $5,575,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DAVID ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $1,218,750 |
| SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY | $1,000,000 |
| UTAH ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYUTAH'S HOGLE ZOO | $1,000,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH | $660,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT | $500,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY IN UTAH | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $500,000 |
| UTAH SYMPHONY UTAH OPERA | $500,000 |
| UTAH'S PROMISE | $500,000 |
| MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| UTAH SYMPHONY UTAH OPERA | $488,490 |
| OGDEN PIONEER DAYS FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME | $350,000 |
| BALLET WEST | $350,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +5% for the ones you funded once.
282 repeat relationships — 282 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 83 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M 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
- USUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +4%
- OPOGDEN PIONEER DAYS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $861k · revenue +9%
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH2× · 2023–2024 · $820k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- 2C2022 CONTRIBUTIONS PAIDone grant, 2022 · $30M
- 2C2022 CONTRIBUTIONS OF STOCK PAIDone grant, 2022 · $1.8M
- GSGolden Spike Foundationone grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue -80% · 26% of their budget
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.
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
Support various performing arts in utah.
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…
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…
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
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'…
Our mission is to engage with communities and catalyze private, public, and philanthropic partnerships to remedy opportunity gaps in economic opportunity, education, health, and housing in Utah.
The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Timpanogos Storytelling Institute. 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 30 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
350 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. 350 of the 482 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds Lacrosse Boosters of Utah co University of Utah Athletic Dept ↗
- Who funds The Community Foundation of Utah ↗
- Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds OGDEN PIONEER DAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho ↗
- Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
- Who funds Envision Utah ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah ↗
- Who funds Golden Spike Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Indian Services ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds THE POLICY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FULLMER LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · McCarthey Family Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · The Miner 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 George S and Dolores Dore Eccles 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.
- Crossroads Creative & Performing Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
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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