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Jonathan S and Alisa G Gardner Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$527k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$166k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Human Services$299kHealth$222kEducation$94kCrime & Legal$88kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kInternational$45kRecreation & Sports$10kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $96k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $316k
$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RISING STAR OUTREACH INC$166,000
THE GOOD SAMARITAN$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
ONE REFUGEE$50,000
SOCIAL MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL$45,000
DISABILITY LAW CENTER$33,000
Individual grant recipient$13,020
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DA$12,500
HIGHLAND HIGH SCHOOL$11,866
FRONTIER PLUMBING AND HEATING$8,780
Individual grant recipient$8,574
Individual grant recipient$7,847
Individual grant recipient$7,700
Individual grant recipient$7,000
Individual grant recipient$5,929
02The need
03

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 (FY23–24, $181k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%UTAH PARENT CENTER: $15k → 8%RISING STAR OUTREACH INC: $166k → 8%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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$127k · 7 repeat orgs$716k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
31

Total granted

$127k
$271k

Still filing today

0%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $445k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k
  • TC
    THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $16k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $11k

Funded once

  • TO
    The Other Side Academygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +40%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR GLOBAL SURGERY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
2
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
3
The Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind Education Foundation

To provide resources and financial support to meet the unique need of the children and families served by the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind (USDB).

Education
4
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Utah Youth Sports Academy Foundation Fka Rsl Youth Academy Foundation
Recreation & Sports
6
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Utah Prep Kokua Foundation

To provide athletic and academic opportunities for underprivileged youth.

Youth Development
8
Utah Geological Foundation
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9
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

—
10
National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho

The National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho, a major nonprofit health organization, is dedicated to preventing diseases of the kidney, improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and families affected by kidney disease, and…

Health
11
Ogden Family Foundation
Education
12
Disability Rights Now

Increase opportunities for people with disabilities in legal field.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is And Justice for All; the most unlike its peers is Onerefugee. 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

12 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. 12 of the 71 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE GOOD SAMARITAN: $50,000 · OtherTHE GOOD SAMARITANCENTER FOR GLOBAL SURGERY: $50,000 · OtherCENTER FOR GLOBAL SURGERYIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $16,352 · Other+54 more: $237,111 · Other+54 moreRising Star Outreach Inc: $166,000 · Human ServicesRising Star Outreach IncUtah Parent Center Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesUtah Parent Center IncThe Other Side Academy: $50,000 · Crime & LegalThe Other S…DISABILITY LAW CENTER: $33,000 · Crime & LegalDISABILITY …AND JUSTICE FOR ALL: $5,000 · Crime & LegalAND JUSTICE…Onerefugee: $50,000 · EducationHelp Start Education Foundation: $6,000 · EducationOrtho Cup Charitable Foundation: $5,000 · EducationAlpine School District Foundation: $5,000 · EducationSocial Medicine International: $45,000 · HealthOGA VETSINC: $10,000 · Public BenefitSalt Lake Education Foundation: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$443,463Human Services$181,000Crime & Legal$88,000Education$66,000Health$45,000Public Benefit$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

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 budgetRising Star Outreach Inc: $166,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetThe Other Side Academy: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOnerefugee: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSocial Medicine International: $45,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDISABILITY LAW CENTER: $33,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUtah Parent Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHelp Start Education Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOrtho Cup Charitable Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAND JUSTICE FOR ALL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlpine School District Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Rising Star Outreach Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Other Side Academy ↗
  • Who funds Onerefugee ↗
  • Who funds Social Medicine International ↗
  • Who funds DISABILITY LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Utah Parent Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds OGA VETSINC ↗
  • Who funds Salt Lake Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Help Start Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Ortho Cup Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AND JUSTICE FOR ALL ↗
  • Who funds Alpine School District Foundation ↗

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.

Larry H Miller and Ga…The Community Foundat…Sorenson Legacy Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family FoundationUT15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jonathan S and Alisa G Gardner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jonathan S and Alisa G Gardner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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
    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.

    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 71 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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