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Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
63
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$535k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.3MPhilanthropy$2.8MHuman Services$1.4MHealth$1.2MRecreation & Sports$1.2MYouth Development$685kArts & Culture$493kInternational$241kOther$0
02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $128k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $577k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $333k
  • $250k+1 grant · $535k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$535,000
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$150,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$125,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$58,000
THE CHILDREN'S CENTER$46,550
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALT LAKE CITY$40,000
TORREY HOUSE PRESS$40,000
GUADALUPE SCHOOL$40,000
SNOW BASIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION$32,500
YOUTH SPORTS ALLIANCE$30,000
MALIHEH FREE CLINIC$25,000
CACHE VALLEY LANGUAGE CENTER$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
UTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$23,400
ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $984k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TRYALL FUND: $10k → 17%TRYALL FUND: $3k → 17%THE TRYALL FUND: $2k → 17%THE TRYALL FUND: $2k → 17%THE TRYALL FUND: $2k → 17%TRYALL FUND: $2k → 17%TRYALL FUND: $2k → 17%ABILITY FOUND: $2k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $2k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $2k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $2k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $16k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $15k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $15k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $10k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $10k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $7k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $3k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $3k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $3k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $15k → 8%UPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $6k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE: $6k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $5k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE: $5k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $5k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE: $5k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $3k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE: $5k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $3k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE: $5k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $3k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE: $4k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $3k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE: $3k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE: $3k → 8%THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $117k → 8%THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $113k → 8%THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $107k → 8%THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $80k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $65k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $63k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $62k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $58k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $55k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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WI
NY
IN
OH
CA
UT
VA
AZ
DC
HI
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 66 repeat orgs$342k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
26

Total granted

$11M
$215k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
0%

Still filing today

45%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    9× · 2017–2025 · $720k · revenue +1%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH
    9× · 2017–2025 · $424k · revenue +199%
  • TH
    TORREY HOUSE PRESS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $242k · revenue +422%

Funded once

  • DS
    Downtown SLC Presents
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -49%
  • GQ
    Global QRF
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -41%
  • TL
    THE LIFT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
House of Hope

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

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2
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

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.

Environment
3
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Utah Foundation

Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…

Public Benefit
5
Utah Geological Foundation
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6
Utah Health & Human Rights Project

The organization's mission is to help survivors of torture living in utah to heal from their physical and psychological injuries and rebuild their lives.

Health
7
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
8
The Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging

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.

Community Improvement
9
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
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
Trauma-Informed Utah

The primary purpose of Trauma-Informed Utah is to respond to requests for education, resources and training around implementing a Trauma-Informed approach within their organization. The focus includes any and all sectors of society seeking…

Health
12
Utah World Trade Center

World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ycc Family Crisis Center; the most unlike its peers is Caldwell Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 112 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
41/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $3,730,556 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHCHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $1,411,000 · OtherCHARLES SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUNDBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALT LAKE CITY: $577,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALT LAKE CITYTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $423,790 · Other+75 more: $3,261,858 · Other+75 moreNeighborhood House Association: $719,700 · Human ServicesPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $81,500 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME: $75,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $41,500 · Human Services+5 more: $66,300 · Human ServicesDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $945,047 · Philanthropy+3 more: $12,000 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $800,000 · Education+2 more: $33,000 · EducationMaliheh Free Clinic: $235,000 · HealthKEYSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $155,000 · HealthWOMENS RETREAT HOUSE: $55,000 · Health+5 more: $26,500 · HealthTORREY HOUSE PRESS: $242,000 · Environment+2 more: $7,362 · EnvironmentInternational Rescue Committee INC: $154,000 · InternationalWomen of the World: $50,000 · InternationalGlobal QRF: $10,000 · International+3 more: $14,800 · International
Other$9,404,204Human Services$984,000Philanthropy$957,047Education$833,000Health$471,500Environment$249,362International$228,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $945,047 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $800,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $719,700 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $423,790 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTORREY HOUSE PRESS: $242,000 over 9y, 16% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $235,000 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetKEYSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC: $155,000 over 9y, 83% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $154,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER: $115,500 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetDowntown SLC Presents: $100,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetYOUTH DRIVING FOR VALUES: $91,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $81,500 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetHELPER PROJECT: $81,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $73,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $65,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS RETREAT HOUSE: $55,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetWomen of the World: $50,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $41,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFLOURISH VENTURES: $30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTryall Fund Jamaica: $23,700 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetBETA THETA PI FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN: $22,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetArt Access: $20,250 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetBALLET WEST: $18,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABILITY FOUND CORPORATION: $18,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH: $15,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetARTSPACE: $13,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRescue Rovers: $12,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNational Alliance on Mental Illness Utah: $12,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $11,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGlobal QRF: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE LIFT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFamily Promise - Salt Lake: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSTAND4KIND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCALDWELL FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEmpowerment Works Inc: $4,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $2,362 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Pride Center Inc: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAPE RECOVERY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
  • Who funds TORREY HOUSE PRESS ↗
  • Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Downtown SLC Presents ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH DRIVING FOR VALUES ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds HELPER PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WOMENS RETREAT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Women of the World ↗
  • Who funds UPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗

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.

George S and Dolores …Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…Lawrence & Janet Dee …McCarthey Family Foun…Larry H Miller and Ga…Kennecott Utah Copper…Intermountain Communi…Dominion Energy Chari…Herbert I & Elsa B Mi…Marriner S Eccles Fou…David Kelby Johnson M…
George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT46× affinity20 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 · 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 112 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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