· Private foundation
Jess & Marilyn Peck Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $196k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABILITY INCLUSION SERVICES | $36,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $25,000 |
| CAMP KOSTOPULOS | $25,000 |
| ABILITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER | $20,000 |
| UTAH COUNCIL OF THE BLIND | $15,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| CHAIN BREAKER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JORDAN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| COTTONWOOD HIGH SCHOOL PTA | $5,000 |
| THE INN BETWEEN | $5,000 |
| UTAH KIDS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| REAL LIFE | $2,000 |
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, $81k) 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 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.
17 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- KDKostopulos Dream Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $134k · revenue +220%
- NANATIONAL ABILITY CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $114k · revenue +84%
- AFABILITY FOUND CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- ESEnglish Skills Learning Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +115%
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.
Assisting persons with disabilities to develop independent living and social skills, assisting with housing and transportation needs, rights advocacy, and counseling.
Wildlife Preservation
Provides services and supports to individuals in Utah County who have intellectual disabilities.
Assist individuals in receiving assistive technology
Assisting disabled individuals in developing independent living skills, social skills, housing and transportation, rights advocacy and counseling, assisting disabled individuals identify equipment needs to enable them to live more…
We inspire and transform students with learning differences into confident, independent, and successful readers. We collaborate with colleagues and members of the community for the welfare and value of our diverse learners.
Creating access to resources by connecting opportunities for people of all disabilities, their families and communities, from Aspen to Parachute.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Ability Center and the most unlike its peers is Best Seat in the House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 WORK ACTIVITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UTAH COUNCIL OF THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ABILITY FOUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds Utah Kids Foundation ↗
- Who funds English Skills Learning Center ↗
- Who funds UTAH DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Best Seat in the House ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillips · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Jeps Foundation · Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Association · Utah Medical Association Foundation · Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation · Utah's Promise
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 Jess & Marilyn Peck 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 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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