· Private foundation
JoAnne L Shrontz 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Renaissance Charitable Foundation | $80,000 |
| Ballet West | $30,000 |
| University of Utah Utah Museum of Natural History | $12,500 |
| The McGillis School | $11,500 |
| Wasatch Community Gardens | $10,500 |
| Nature Conservancy of Utah | $10,500 |
| The Trustees of Reservations | $10,000 |
| Dexter Southfield School | $10,000 |
| Friends of Tracy Aviary | $10,000 |
| Uinta BOCES 1 Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| Windsor School Inc | $10,000 |
| Utah Symphony Utah Opera | $10,000 |
| University of Utah School of Music | $10,000 |
| University of Utah Museum of Fine Arts | $7,500 |
| The Children's Center | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
34 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +50%- WCWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS7× · 2017–2024 · $76k · revenue +157%
- FOFRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $73k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
- UOUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +241%
- TMTHE MATCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -55%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Education and Research
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dexter Southfield Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Eim Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 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. 33 of the 54 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds THE MCGILLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EIM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
- Who funds GRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY ↗
- Who funds GLEN CANYON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MATCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTIC NOISE INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Utah · Janet Q Lawson Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · SJ and Jessie E Quinney Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · American Express Foundation · Palladium Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation
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 JoAnne L Shrontz 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Book Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
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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