· Private foundation
Gibbons 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Utah Food Bank | $8,000 |
| Rowland Hall St Marks School | $7,000 |
| Judge Memorial Catholic High School | $3,000 |
| Henrys Fork Foundation | $2,000 |
| NDRC | $1,200 |
| Planned Parenthood | $1,200 |
| The McGilllis School | $1,000 |
| Neighborhood House | $1,000 |
| Hunstman Cancer Institute | $1,000 |
| Breakthrough T1D | $500 |
| NPR | $400 |
| Salt Lake Arts Academy | $250 |
| KUER | $200 |
| Best Friends Animal Sanctuary | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $10k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +53%
- RHROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +84%
- HFHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- RHRowland Hall Schoolone grant, 2020 · $5k
- HCHuntsmen Cancer Instituteone grant, 2020 · $2k
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +26%
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.
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.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.
The mission of the Tennessee Aquarium is to connect people with nature and empower them to make informed decisions about water and wildlife.
We inspire people to explore, discover and learn about earth's diverse ecosystems.
As conservation leaders, the red river zoo connects our community to nature and inspires people to help save species.
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.…
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…
The National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho, a major nonprofit health organization, is dedicated to preventing diseases of the kidney, improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and families affected by kidney disease, and…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MCGILLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Utah Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Salt Lake Arts Academy ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds REDFORD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH ANIMAL ADVOCACY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · American Express Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gibbons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gibbons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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