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George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation at a glance

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George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27M
Granted FY2024still arriving
400
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$5.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$68MEducation$16MArts & Culture$10MHuman Services$3.7MHealth$3.1MYouth Development$2.6MSocial Science$2.4MRecreation & Sports$2.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 400 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k86 grants · $453k
  • $10k–50k228 grants · $4.7M
  • $50k–250k64 grants · $5.9M
  • $250k+22 grants · $16M
$18,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$967M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ONEIDA STAKE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $300k → 8%ONEIDA STAKE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $68k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $100k → 8%SUZY'S SENIOR COMPANIONSHIP SERVICES: $15k → 6%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SOUTHWESTERN UTAH: $25k → 13%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $215k → 9%FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT: $100k → 10%SEEKHAVEN INC: $15k → 11%CANYON CREEK SERVICES: $16k → 13%UTAH FOSTER CARE FOUNDATION: $18k → 8%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $65k → 9%UTAH FOSTER CARE FOUNDATION: $18k → 8%COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $35k → 12%IMMIGRANT LEGAL SERVICES: $17k → 8%COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES: $30k → 12%IMMIGRANT LEGAL SERVICES: $17k → 8%PEACE HOUSE INC: $25k → 5%PEACE HOUSE INC: $25k → 5%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN UTAH: $28k → 9%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN UTAH: $25k → 9%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $200k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $170k → 8%MOSAIC INTER-FAITH MINISTRIES: $18k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $15k → 8%MOSAIC INTER-FAITH MINISTRIES: $18k → 8%CENTRO HISPANO: $15k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $15k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $15k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $350k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $350k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE-ELDER: $40k → 8%ADOPT-A-NATIVE-ELDER: $40k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $43k → 8%INN BETWEEN THE: $20k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $50k → 8%UPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $50k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $159k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $140k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $100k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $32k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $32k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $22k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $22k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $25k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $25k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $100k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $100k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
CA
UT
CO
VA
NM
KS
TN
DC
GA
FL
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44M · 282 repeat orgs$41M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

282
116

Total granted

$44M
$37M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+4%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +4%
  • OP
    OGDEN PIONEER DAYS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $861k · revenue +9%
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $820k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • 2C
    2022 CONTRIBUTIONS PAID
    one grant, 2022 · $30M
  • 2C
    2022 CONTRIBUTIONS OF STOCK PAID
    one grant, 2022 · $1.8M
  • GS
    Golden Spike Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $400k · revenue -80% · 26% of their budget
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 Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
3
Utah Geological Foundation
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4
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.

—
5
Utah Valley Arts

Support various performing arts in utah.

—
6
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…

—
7
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
8
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
9
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
10
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
11
The Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging

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.

Community Improvement
12
Utah State Fair Corporation

The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

350 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. 350 of the 482 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
349/350
Grantees still filing
223/350
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

2022 CONTRIBUTIONS PAID: $30,152,598 · Other2022 CONTRIBUTIONS PAIDUNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $12,559,995 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES SCHOOL OF MEDICINEUNIVERSITY OF UTAH DAVID ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $2,456,932 · Other+115 more: $20,617,170 · Other+115 moreUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $1,988,490 · Arts & CultureOGDEN PIONEER DAYS FOUNDATION: $861,071 · Arts & CultureBALLET WEST: $775,000 · Arts & CultureGolden Spike Foundation: $400,000 · Arts & CultureTHIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Arts & Culture+21 more: $1,593,091 · Arts & CultureTHE ROAD HOME: $700,000 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $408,850 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $400,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Indian Services: $370,000 · Human ServicesYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $280,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House Association: $199,874 · Human ServicesONEIDA STAKE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $167,809 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $120,000 · Human Services+13 more: $820,334 · Human ServicesThe Community Foundation of Utah: $1,001,000 · PhilanthropyUTAH'S PROMISE: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyRON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $164,790 · PhilanthropyLacrosse Boosters of Utah co University of Utah Athletic Dept: $1,558,515 · Recreation & SportsKostopulos Dream Foundation: $190,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $110,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $349,120 · HealthMOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $175,000 · HealthALLIANCE HOUSE INC: $145,000 · HealthTHE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC: $110,000 · HealthSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $100,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $80,000 · HealthMaliheh Free Clinic: $70,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $69,588 · HealthSALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES: $60,000 · HealthFIRST STEP HOUSE: $58,000 · Health+10 more: $478,500 · HealthJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $500,000 · InternationalYOUTHLINC: $164,000 · InternationalCACHE COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC: $50,000 · InternationalWomen of the World: $50,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $40,000 · International
Other$65,786,695Arts & Culture$5,817,652Human Services$3,466,867Philanthropy$2,295,790Recreation & Sports$1,908,515Health$1,695,208International$804,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $1,988,490 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $1,001,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE: $1,000,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetOGDEN PIONEER DAYS FOUNDATION: $861,071 over 2y, 17% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $820,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBALLET WEST: $775,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $700,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $625,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $500,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetEnvision Utah: $500,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $470,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $408,850 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $400,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetGolden Spike Foundation: $400,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $370,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $349,120 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $317,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $310,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFULLMER LEGACY FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE POLICY PROJECT: $300,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $280,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah: $207,545 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSAFFRON KITCHEN INC: $200,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetTHIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $199,874 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF UTAH COUNTY INC: $195,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $190,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetMOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC: $175,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetSalt Lake Chamber Foundation: $174,770 over 2y, 11% of budgetONEIDA STAKE ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $167,809 over 2y, 41% of budgetYOUTHLINC: $164,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH: $150,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FUND OF CDS: $150,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetUTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY: $150,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSundance Institute: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST GEORGE MUSICAL THEATER: $150,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetALLIANCE HOUSE INC: $145,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetTHE LIVING PLANET INC: $140,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $132,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetLISTENERS COMMUNITY RADIO OF UTAH INC: $125,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE: $120,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $120,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $110,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC: $110,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE: $105,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…Larry H Miller and Ga…Lawrence & Janet Dee …The Community Foundat…Marriner S Eccles Fou…Ihc Health Services I…McCarthey Family Foun…Pacificorp Foundation…Kennecott Utah Copper…Henry W & Leslie M Es…David Kelby Johnson M…The Miner Foundation
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT306× affinity195 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Crossroads Creative & Performing Arts Center Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
98report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to George S and Dolores Dore Eccles 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 482 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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