· Private foundation
James R and Nanette S Michie 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIV OF UTAH BUSINESS SCHOOL | $104,000 |
| UNIV OF UTAH ORTHOPEDICS | $54,000 |
| UNIV OF UTAH MUSIC SCHOOL | $32,000 |
| VARIOUS CONTRIBUTIONS | $13,000 |
| GIFTED MUSIC SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA | $2,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH | $500 |
| PARKINSONS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ASPCA | $500 |
| PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF AMERICA | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +24% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- SMSpringville Museum of Art3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +533%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +106%- USUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA3× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- UOUNIV OF UTAH ENDOWMENT ART STUDENTSone grant, 2022 · $104k
- UOUNIV OF UTAH ENDOWMENTone grant, 2019 · $100k
- UOUNIV OF UTAH ART GALLERYone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
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The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Description of organization mission: the paley center for media is the premier institution dedicated to advancing the understanding of media-it's artistic value, social impact and historical importance-for the public and media…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Springville Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 55 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 SALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Springville Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SALT LAKE CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization James R and Nanette S Michie Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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