Utah · Private foundation
Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2025
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $535,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $64k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 61 | $1.4M | 26% |
| FY2024 | 58 | $1.3M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $1.5M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $1.9M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $1.5M | 19% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $1.4M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $942k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $694k | 34% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Utah | $3,730,556 | 9 | n/a |
| Neighborhood House Association | $719,700 | 9 | 3% |
| The Children's Center Utah | $423,790 | 9 | 1% |
| Catholic Community Services of Utah | $249,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Torrey House Press | $242,000 | 9 | 16% |
| Maliheh Free Clinic | $235,000 | 9 | 3% |
| 10-07 Charitable Fund | $221,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Keystone Recovery Center Inc | $155,000 | 9 | 83% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $154,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Environmental Resource Center | $115,500 | 7 | 9% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Association · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation with peer funders
About Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation
- How much does Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation give?
- Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation reported 63 grants totaling $1,573,256 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Philanthropy (21%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Utah ($3.7M), Neighborhood House Association ($720k), The Children's Center Utah ($424k).
- Does Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Sorenson Legacy Foundation, The Community Foundation of Utah.
- Where is Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation based?
- Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation is based in UT.
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