· Private foundation
Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Association
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of HERBERT I & ELSA B MICHAEL FOUNDATION US BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k69 grants · $286k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UTAH LEGAL SERVICES | $15,000 |
| UNIV OF UTAH - SJ QUINNEY COLLEGE O | $15,000 |
| CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER | $13,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA-UT | $10,000 |
| ODYSSEY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH | $10,000 |
| UTAH COUNCIL OF THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SLC | $10,000 |
| GUADALUPE SCHOOLS | $7,500 |
| THE ROAD HOME | $7,500 |
| UTAH CENTER FOR LEGAL INCLUSION | $7,500 |
| YWCA OF UTAH | $7,500 |
| INN BETWEEN | $7,500 |
| PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $398k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2025, 17 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CUCrossroads Urban Center4× · 2020–2025 · $68k · revenue +130%
- ULUTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +1%
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- UOUNIV OF UTAH - TEEN MOTHER CHILD PRone grant, 2020 · $5k
- UAUTAHNS AGAINST HUNGERone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -45%
- UOUNIV OF UTAH - WELLNESS BUS MOBILEone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
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…
To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
Assisting persons with disabilities to develop independent living and social skills, assisting with housing and transportation needs, rights advocacy, and counseling.
The promotion of low-income housing within the state of utah.
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.
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
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…
Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.
Our mission is to help parents help their children, youth and young adults with all disabilities to live included, productive lives as members of the community.
Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Christian Association of Utah and the most unlike its peers is Journey of Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
59 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. 59 of the 115 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
- Who funds UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds UTAH COUNCIL OF THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds UTAH CENTER FOR LEGAL INCLUSION ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY FOUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SHARING PLACE ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service ↗
- Who funds WASATCH FORENSIC NURSES INC ↗
- Who funds RAPE RECOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOBE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillips · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Utah Medical Association Foundation
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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