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Jibson Family Foundation at a glance

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Jibson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$64k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$415kHuman Services$111kPhilanthropy$52kArts & Culture$41kRecreation & Sports$31kHealth$30kPublic Benefit$25kReligion$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
$1,350
Median grant
2
States reached
$863k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY$22,544
Individual grant recipient$11,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HANDS FOR AN AFRICAN CHILD$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMNT OF UTAH$4,000
BOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$3,000
NEUROWORX$2,500
STAND 4 KIND$1,350
DAYS OF 47 RODEO$1,080
SHERRY BLACK FOUNDATION$1,000
FALEOMAVAEGA FOUNDATION$1,000
SHADOW LIGHT FOUNDATION$1,000
DAXTON OLSEN FELLOWSHIP FDTN$800
ALS HEART ASSOCIATON$100
AEM$100
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HANDS FOR AN AFRICAN CHILD: $5k → 12%COAXION GLOBAL: $25k → 13%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.
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$496k · 14 repeat orgs$304k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against -28% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
38

Total granted

$496k
$273k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
-28%

Still filing today

57%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    3× · 2017–2022 · $15k · revenue +18%
  • MI
    Mentors International
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +169%
  • TD
    THE DAYS OF '47 INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $12k · revenue ×13

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • CG
    Coaxion Global Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -100%
  • BD
    BEST DEFENSE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Utah Geological Foundation
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3
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
4
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
5
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
7
Utah Youth Sports Academy Foundation Fka Rsl Youth Academy Foundation
Recreation & Sports
8
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
9
United Way of Central and Southern Utah

We improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our local community to provide resources and programs that focus on health, education, and income.

—
10
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
11
Utah Congress of Parents and Teachers

Utah Congress of Parent and Teachers (Utah PTA) will help every child realize his or her potential and will support and speak on behalf of children and youth, encourage positive involvement in all facest of a child's life, and assist in…

Education
12
Lightspark Foundation
Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utahs First Lady Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sherry Black Foundation Fka Sherry Black Education 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

19 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. 19 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $350,442 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYJR ACHIEVEMENT OF UTAH: $37,950 · OtherJR ACHIEVEMENT OF UTAHIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherBEST DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherLDS CHURCH: $22,500 · Other+44 more: $213,590 · Other+44 moreThe Community Foundation of Utah: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUTAH'S PROMISE: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCoaxion Global Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesHands for an African Child Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DAYS OF '47 INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureMentors International: $15,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $10,643 · InternationalBOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $6,000 · EducationSTAND4KIND: $5,705 · EducationLogan City School District Foundation: $500 · EducationKEN GARFF FOR GOOD: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentUTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$674,482Philanthropy$45,000Human Services$30,000Arts & Culture$27,000International$25,643Education$12,205Youth Development$11,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCoaxion Global Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMentors International: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $10,643 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOur Schools Now: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEN GARFF FOR GOOD: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTAND4KIND: $5,705 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHands for an African Child Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPORTSMEN FOR FISH & WILDLIFE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHERRY BLACK FOUNDATION FKA SHERRY BLACK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLogan City School District Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Coaxion Global Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of Utah ↗
  • Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
  • Who funds Mentors International ↗
  • Who funds THE DAYS OF '47 INC ↗
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho ↗
  • Who funds LIFTING GENERATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Our Schools Now ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
  • Who funds KEN GARFF FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds BOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds STAND4KIND ↗
  • Who funds UTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hands for an African Child Inc ↗

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.

Beesley Family Founda…Larry H Miller and Ga…Wcf FoundationGeorge S and Dolores …Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…The Call FoundationJoan and Tim Fenton F…doTERRA Healing Hands…Ima FoundationJoseph and Kathleen S…Semnani Family Founda…
Beesley Family FoundationUT22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Beesley Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Wcf Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · The Call Foundation · Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation · doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation · Ima Foundation · Joseph and Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foun · Semnani Family 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 Jibson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jibson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Jibson Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jibson Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 62 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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