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Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$5.0MArts & Culture$4.3MInternational$2.8MYouth Development$2.6MPhilanthropy$2.3MHealth$2.2MCrime & Legal$2.2MReligion$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $152k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$92M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AERIAL RECOVERY$300,000
ATLANTIS USA FOUNDATION$250,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
U OF U - ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$250,000
INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$215,000
CHARITY VISION INTERNATIONAL$200,000
U OF U - MORAN EYE CENTER$100,000
UTAH AUTISM ACADEMY$100,000
NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION$100,000
SUMMIT JOURNEYS INC$98,000
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE$75,000
USANA KIDS EAT$70,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
RACHEL COVEY FOUNDATION$30,000
BALLET WEST$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SEEKHAVEN INC: $5k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50k → 11%FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION FOR GENERATIONS: $39k → 6%RESCUE FUND: $250k → 10%COAXION GLOBAL: $20k → 13%DONNIE EDWARDS BEST DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%DONNIE EDWARDS BEST DEFENSE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%UTAH PARENT CENTER INC: $15k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $20k → 8%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ELIZABETH SMART FOUNDATION: $400k → 8%ELIZABETH SMART FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%ELIZABETH SMART FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $25k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $15k → 8%YOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $5k → 8%HEALING HANDS INCORPORATED: $100k → 8%HEALING HANDS INCORPORATED: $20k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $10k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $10k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $10k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 8%BACKCOUNTRY SANTA INC: $50k → 8%SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%BACKCOUNTRY SANTA INC: $50k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $50k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $20k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ID
MA
OR
CA
UT
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 59 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
64

Total granted

$20M
$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+12%

Still filing today

76%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $695k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • OR
    OUR RESCUE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $2.4M · revenue +180%
  • S
    Saprea
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.5M · revenue +24%
  • CM
    CARDEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $800k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • HC
    HALE CENTRE THEATREgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +95%
  • LA
    LIBERTY AND LIGHT SPEAR FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $700k · revenue -75% · 56% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NAZARENE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -97%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
3
Utah Geological Foundation
—
4
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
5
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
6
House of Hope

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

—
7
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
—
8
Lightspark Foundation
Civil Rights
9
University of Utah Foundation

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

Philanthropy
10
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

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

Community Improvement
11
Utah Youth Sports Academy Foundation Fka Rsl Youth Academy Foundation
Recreation & Sports
12
Utah Swat Inc
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Futures and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%8%<5yr17%18%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr8%16%35–55yr13%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%6%<5yr17%17%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr15%21%20–35yr8%2%35–55yr13%32%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/106
the rest of the field
16%
1,489/9,436

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 132 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/100
Grantees still filing
60/100
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 — $2,420,400 · OtherCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS …EQUITYTRUST FOUNDATION (LIBERTY & LIFE) — $1,525,000 · OtherEQUITYTRUST FOUNDATION (LIBERTY & LIFE)THE NAZARENE FUND — $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $500,000 · OtherWORLD WIDE ADDICTION RECOVERY — $470,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS — $375,000 · Other+69 more — $5,025,702 · Other+69 moreWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $2,365,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVER…CARDEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $800,000 · EducationCARDEN MEMORIAL FO…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $800,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY …UTAH AUTISM ACADEMY — $200,000 · Education+4 more — $230,000 · EducationOUR RESCUE — $2,428,000 · Arts & CultureOUR RESCUEHALE CENTRE THEATRE — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureHALE CENTRE THEAT…THIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 · Arts & CultureTHIS IS THE PLACE…+8 more — $340,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreSaprea — $1,540,000 · HealthSapreaFight the New Drug Inc — $500,000 · HealthFight the N…INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $314,765 · HealthINTERMOUNTA…The Rachel Covey Foundation — $110,000 · Health+6 more — $215,000 · Health+6 moreCharityVision International — $1,580,000 · PhilanthropyWADE FAMILY FOUNDATION — $138,000 · PhilanthropyGREEN FEATHER FUND — $105,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $67,000 · PhilanthropyElizabeth Smart Foundation — $575,000 · Human ServicesThe Rescue Fund — $250,000 · Human ServicesDONNIE EDWARDS BEST DEFENSE FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Human ServicesHEALING HANDS INCORPORATED — $120,000 · Human ServicesBACKCOUNTRY SANTA INC BACK — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE INN BETWEEN — $70,000 · Human Services+12 more — $274,491 · Human ServicesLIBERTY AND LIGHT SPEAR FUND — $700,000 · Public BenefitATLANTIS USA FOUNDATION — $300,000 · Public BenefitTHE POLICY PROJECT — $160,000 · Public Benefit
Other$10,816,102Education$4,395,000Arts & Culture$3,993,000Health$2,679,765Philanthropy$1,890,000Human Services$1,539,491Public Benefit$1,160,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOUR RESCUE — $2,428,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 — $2,420,400 over 3y, 11% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $2,365,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCharityVision International — $1,580,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetSaprea — $1,540,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetHALE CENTRE THEATRE — $1,000,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCARDEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $800,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $800,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLIBERTY AND LIGHT SPEAR FUND — $700,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetElizabeth Smart Foundation — $575,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetTHE NAZARENE FUND — $500,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFight the New Drug Inc — $500,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC — $350,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $314,765 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWine to Water — $300,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetATLANTIS USA FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetAERIAL RECOVERY — $300,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSPORTSMEN FOR FISH & WILDLIFE INC — $275,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetThe Rescue Fund — $250,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetUSANA TRUE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $225,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHIS IS THE PLACE FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUTAH AUTISM ACADEMY — $200,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A SLAVERY FREE WORLD — $175,000 over 2y, 63% of budgetTHE POLICY PROJECT — $160,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetDONNIE EDWARDS BEST DEFENSE FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetSummit Journeys Inc — $148,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetUSANA KIDS EAT — $148,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetTHE LEGACY FILMS FOUNDATION — $145,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWADE FAMILY FOUNDATION — $138,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetHEALING HANDS INCORPORATED — $120,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetThe Rachel Covey Foundation — $110,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetGREEN FEATHER FUND — $105,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBACKCOUNTRY SANTA INC BACK — $100,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSHERRY BLACK FOUNDATION FKA SHERRY BLACK EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetKalene Advancement Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetJENNEY HOUSE MUSEUM INC — $100,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetUtah Venture Outdoors Inc — $87,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN — $70,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSalt Lake Community College Foundation — $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBALLET WEST — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMANAKI FO'OU — $50,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERFORD SCHOOL HOLDING CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH FUTURES — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation — $42,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSANPETE PANTRY — $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…George S and Dolores …Larry H Miller and Ga…The Community Foundat…Ihc Health Services I…Joseph and Kathleen S…McCarthey Family Foun…The Miner FoundationLawrence & Janet Dee …Kennecott Utah Copper…David Kelby Johnson M…Pacificorp Foundation…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT97.2× affinity48 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 · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ihc Health Services Inc · Joseph and Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foun · McCarthey Family Foundation · The Miner Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati

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 Joan and Tim Fenton Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Jenney House Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joan and Tim Fenton 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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