· Private foundation
Henry S and Patrice Hemingway Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
86% of Henry S and Patrice Hemingway Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Nature Conservancy, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| UTAH DONOR COLLABORATIVE | $10,000 |
| STEWARDSHIP UTAH | $5,000 |
| PIONEER THEATER | $1,000 |
| HENRY FORD FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB5× · 2017–2023 · $188k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR WOMENS EDUCATION IN THE RURAL WORLD4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue -85%
- WUWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue -35%
Funded once
- CMCOACH MIKE'S FRIENDS OF TENNISone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CCCANYON COUNTRY DISCOVERY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $4k
- HFHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +157%
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.
Improve utah's wetlands through hands-on conservation and community engagement
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.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
Trails Utah is dedicated to trails advocacy, planning, funding, and construction in needed areas throughout the state.
To ensure the future of wildlife through conservation, education and hunting.
Utah Open Lands' mission is to preserve and protect open space, in perpetuity, in order to maintain Utah's natural heritage and quality of life for present and future generations. The purpose of Utah Open Lands is to permanently protect…
The utah rivers council is dedicated to the conservation and stewardship of utahs rivers and sustainable clean water sources for utahs people and wildlife.
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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 18 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMENS EDUCATION IN THE RURAL WORLD ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE TO SAVE OUR ↗
- Who funds Utah Donor Collaborative ↗
- Who funds STEWARDSHIP UTAH ↗
- Who funds Intermountain Therapy Animals ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLES OF COMFORT ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Henry S and Patrice Hemingway Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry S and Patrice Hemingway Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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