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Jks Family 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.

$100k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
83%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Jks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$100k86%
FY20236$100k83%
FY202210$100k90%
FY20215$100k60%
FY20206$100k100%
FY20196$95k83%
FY20187$102k43%
FY20178$101kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$170kHealth$153kReligion$140kEducation$115kHuman Services$80kInternational$45kPhilanthropy$20kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
CA
UT
VA
DC
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints$135,0005n/a
Ensign College$100,0002n/a
Huntsman Cancer Foundation$60,00010%
University of Utah$60,0001n/a
Our Rescue$55,00030%
Intermountain Healthcare Foundation Inc$40,00010%
Single Parent Project$35,000137%
Stand4kind$25,00022%
World Central Kitchen Inc$15,00010%
Variety the Children's Charity of Texas$15,00011%
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Jks Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints$135,0005n/a
Ensign College$100,0002n/a
Huntsman Cancer Foundation$60,00010%
University of Utah$60,0001n/a
Our Rescue$55,00030%
Intermountain Healthcare Foundation Inc$40,00010%
Single Parent Project$35,000137%
Stand4kind$25,00022%
World Central Kitchen Inc$15,00010%
Variety the Children's Charity of Texas$15,00011%
Ukraine Front Line Inc$10,000143%
Park City Tots Inc$10,00011%
Tim Tebow Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Thanksgiving Point Institute Inc$10,00010%
Family Counseling Service of Northern Utah Inc$10,00013%
Mentors International$10,00010%
The Zaynab Project$10,00013%
International Rescue Committee INC$10,00010%
Hope4utah$10,00022%
The Lunchbox Fund$10,00011%
Ballet West$10,00010%
Fight the New Drug Inc$7,50011%
Best Friends Animal Society$5,00010%
Lifting Hands International$5,00010%
Granite Education Foundation$5,00010%
The Other Side Academy$5,00010%
Alpine School District Foundation$5,00010%
Share-Parents of Utah$5,0001n/a
House of Hope$5,00010%
The Sharing Place$5,00011%
Kostopulos Dream Foundation$2,65020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Jks Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHuntsman Cancer Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOur Rescue: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIntermountain Healthcare Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSingle Parent Project: $35,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetStand4kind: $25,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVariety the Children's Charity of Texas: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUkraine Front Line Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetPark City Tots Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTim Tebow Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThanksgiving Point Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Counseling Service of Northern Utah Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMentors International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Zaynab Project: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope4utah: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Lunchbox Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBallet West: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFight the New Drug Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifting Hands International: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGranite Education Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Other Side Academy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlpine School District Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHouse of Hope: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Sharing Place: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $2,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT32× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Joseph and Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foun · The Miner Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · The Community Foundation of Utah · Beesley Family Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family Foundation · doTERRA Healing Hands 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.

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Find your warmest path to Jks 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.

About Jks Family Foundation

How much does Jks Family Foundation give?
Jks Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Jks Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Health (19%), Religion (17%).
Who are Jks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ($135k), Ensign College ($100k), Huntsman Cancer Foundation ($60k).
Does Jks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jks Family 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 Jks Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Joseph and Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foun.
Where is Jks Family Foundation based?
Jks Family Foundation is based in UT.

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 46 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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