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Hemingway Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2022
97
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Human Services$390kEducation$281kArts & Culture$203kEnvironment$195kHealth$175kHousing & Shelter$126kYouth Development$125kFood & Nutrition$78kOther$0
02FY2022 · 97 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 97 grants below total $940,371 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,203,371 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $263,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k54 grants · $229k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $711k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Neighborhood House Association$45,000
University of Utah$41,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake$40,500
The Children's Center$30,000
The Nature Conservancy in Idaho$25,000
Environmental Resource Center (ERC)$25,000
Young Women's Christian Association of Utah (dba YWCA Utah)$25,000
Red Butte Garden at University of Utah$23,996
Jewish Family Service$20,000
Encircle Family & Youth Resource Center$20,000
Salt Lake Valley Habitat for Humanity$20,000
Utah Symphony-Utah Opera$20,000
Women of the World$20,000
Higher Ground Sun Valley, Inc.$20,000
Volunteers of America, Utah$20,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 52 repeat orgs$328k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
15

Total granted

$1.4M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
-2%

Still filing today

92%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • NH
    Neighborhood House Association
    2× · 2021–2022 · $135k · revenue +20%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $61k · revenue +14%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH
    2× · 2021–2022 · $55k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • IS
    INTERMOUNTAIN SPECIALIZED ABUSE TREATMENT CENTER DBAISAT CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -60%
  • DP
    DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION DBA CENTERPOINT LEGACY THEATRE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +21%
  • BC
    BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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2
Salt Lake Community Action Program

The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.

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3
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
4
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
5
Utah Arts Alliance

To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.

Arts & Culture
6
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.

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7
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…

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8
Utah Valley Family Support Center Inc

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

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9
Slc Bike Share

To provide alternative environmentally responsible transportation to downtown travelers through a bike share program.

Public Benefit
10
Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness

USARA's mission is to connect and inspire communities to advocate for addiction recovery. We envision a Utah where recovery community and connection are recognized as the most valuable assets for people to recover from addiction.

Health
11
Utah Geological Foundation
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12
The Community Foundation of Utah

We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Support Center and the most unlike its peers is Rotarun Ski Club. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLgbtqia+ Advocacy and Commu…Community Literacy TutoringLocal History MuseumsCollege Foundation SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterImmigrant and Latino Integr…Affordable Housing Construc…Community Hospital SystemsClassical Music OrchestrasPregnancy Support CentersYouth Development CentersChristian Outreach Ministri…Public Library SupportJewish Community FederationsUrban Agriculture EducationCommunity Arts CentersVolunteer Fire & RescueChristian Youth CampsAddiction & Mental Health T…Professional Dance CompaniesEnvironmental Advocacy and …Ymca Community CentersFood Pantries and AssistanceYouth Sports ProgramsFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community Theater CompaniesDomestic Violence and Sexua…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr15%29%20–35yr14%30%35–55yr22%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr22%44%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/105
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,254

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.

03the grantee network

96 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. 96 of the 105 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/96
Grantees still filing
68/96
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $173,138 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $65,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE — $60,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKETHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $55,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAHENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER — $50,000 · OtherYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah — $45,000 · OtherJewish Family Service — $35,000 · OtherHIGHER GROUND USA INC — $40,000 · Other+39 more — $474,275 · Other+39 moreNeighborhood House Association — $135,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House …THE ROAD HOME — $26,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOMEEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center — $20,000 · Human ServicesEncircle Family and…FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN — $17,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF O…Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah — $15,000 · Human ServicesPeace House Inc — $11,500 · Human ServicesSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesTHE JESSE TREE OF IDAHO INC — $11,000 · Human Services+8 more — $57,600 · Human Services+8 moreUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $40,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMP…LAUGHING STOCK THEATRE COMPANY — $20,000 · Arts & CultureLAUGHING …THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY — $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SALT …Utah Museum of Contemporary Art — $15,000 · Arts & CultureUtah Muse…ECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER — $13,000 · Arts & CultureECCLES CO…DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION DBA CENTERPOINT LEGACY THEATRE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureDAVIS PER…Friends of Idaho Public Television Inc — $9,000 · Arts & CultureFriends o…GINA BACHAUER INTERNATIONAL PIANO FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureDAVIS ARTS COUNCIL — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUNDI PROJECT — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $6,500 · Arts & CultureYOUTH FUTURES — $25,500 · HealthWasatch Homeless Health Care — $21,000 · HealthSCHOOL OF ADDICTION RECOVERY (SOAR) INC — $20,000 · HealthSALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES — $8,000 · HealthTHE SHARING PLACE — $8,000 · HealthFIRST STEP HOUSE — $7,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH — $7,000 · HealthHoly Cross Ministries of Utah — $5,000 · Health+3 more — $3,000 · HealthENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTER OF CACHE VALLEY INC — $30,000 · EducationThe Community Library Association Inc — $25,000 · EducationEnglish Skills Learning Center — $22,500 · EducationFARWISE INC — $15,000 · EducationSalt Lake Community College Foundation — $4,000 · EducationBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah — $3,500 · Education+1 more — $2,000 · EducationWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO — $20,000 · EnvironmentSageland Collaborative — $20,000 · EnvironmentUTAH RIVERS COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentHEALTHY ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE OF UTAH — $5,500 · EnvironmentSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance — $5,000 · EnvironmentWomen of the World — $30,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho — $10,000 · InternationalYOUTHLINC — $8,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $5,000 · InternationalBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD — $4,500 · International+1 more — $500 · International
Other$997,913Human Services$304,600Arts & Culture$143,500Health$105,000Education$102,000Environment$66,500International$58,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNeighborhood House Association — $135,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE — $60,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah — $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJewish Family Service — $35,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetADVOCATES FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT INC — $32,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetENGLISH LANGUAGE CENTER OF CACHE VALLEY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWomen of the World — $30,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SALT LAKE AREA — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetST ANNE'S CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $28,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME — $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH FUTURES — $25,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Community Library Association Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEnglish Skills Learning Center — $22,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY - — $21,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care — $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetODYSSEY HOUSE INC - UTAH — $20,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WEBER-DAVIS — $20,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC — $20,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAUGHING STOCK THEATRE COMPANY — $20,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCHOOL OF ADDICTION RECOVERY (SOAR) INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSageland Collaborative — $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN — $17,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE UTAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHILD & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF CACHE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFARWISE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HAND ASSOCIATION INC — $13,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH — $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER — $13,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation — $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPeace House Inc — $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JESSE TREE OF IDAHO INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUtah Pride Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOGDEN - WEBER TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

George S and Dolores …Lawrence & Janet Dee …Sorenson Legacy Found…Marriner S Eccles Fou…The Community Foundat…Pacificorp Foundation…Larry H Miller and Ga…Intermountain Communi…Dominion Energy Chari…Ihc Health Services I…McCarthey Family Foun…Utah's Promise
George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT104.8× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · McCarthey Family Foundation · Utah's Promise

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Hemingway Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hemingway 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $733k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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