· Private foundation
Harris H & Amanda P Simmons 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in Zions Bancorp Stock.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UTAH SYMPHONY UTAH OPERA | $65,000 |
| PIONEER THEATER COMPANY | $50,000 |
| SILVER CREEK ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES | $20,000 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME | $10,000 |
| THE SUTHERLAND INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - UTAH | $10,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - IDAHO | $10,000 |
| BYU WHEATLEY INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| PASTOR FRANCE DAVIS SCHOLARSHIP FOU | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $65k) 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
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 +24% since the first grant, against -31% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- USUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA4× · 2021–2024 · $215k · revenue +6%
- SCSILVER CREEK ALLIANCE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +28%
- TRTHE ROAD HOME3× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- TLTHE LIFE OF CHRIST ART FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $125k · 56% of their budget
- PTPIONEER THEATRE COMPANYone grant, 2020 · $75k
- USUTAH SYMPHONY OPERAone grant, 2020 · $75k
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.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
The Utah Genealogical Association provides genealogical information, courses and education through personal instruction and published media on state, national and international family history topics, while promoting high standards and…
To ensure the future of wildlife through conservation, education and hunting.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 36 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 SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds SILVER CREEK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIFE OF CHRIST ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Sutherland Institute ↗
- Who funds Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love ↗
- Who funds American Indian Services ↗
- Who funds The Community Foundation of Utah ↗
- Who funds THE GREATEST GENERATIONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
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: Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Harris H & Amanda P Simmons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harris H & Amanda P Simmons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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