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Joseph and Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foun

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.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$4.9MInternational$2.3MRecreation & Sports$2.1MReligion$2.0MEducation$1.8MArts & Culture$1.7MHuman Services$670kFood & Nutrition$587kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $535k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$101M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEUROWORX$500,000
INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$500,000
THE ZAHRA CHARITY INC$385,000
THRIVE GULU INC$350,000
WORLD WIDE ADDICTION RECOVERY$175,000
MENTORS INTERNATIONAL$150,000
RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION$140,000
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER$140,000
TENNIS FOR LIFE$100,000
KOSTOPULOS DREAM FOUNDATION$100,000
SKYLINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$80,000
LOVELAND PLANET AQUARIUM$80,000
US FRIENDS OF AMAR$75,000
UTAH FRIENDS OF AMAR$75,000
HOLE IN THE ROCK FOUNDATION$67,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THRIVE GULU INC: $360k → 8%OGDEN VALLEY ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $5k → 9%THRIVE GULU INC: $215k → 8%OGDEN VALLEY ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $5k → 9%THRIVE GULU INC: $350k → 8%GIRLS HOPE RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 13%THRIVE GULU INC: $250k → 8%THRIVE GULU INC: $180k → 8%PARK CITY TOTS: $10k → 5%PARK CITY TOTS: $10k → 5%UTAH PET PARTNERS: $3k → 8%THE OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $7k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $5k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $5k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $5k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $10k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $140k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $82k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $75k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $70k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $5k → 8%CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $35k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $30k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $30k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $30k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 8%SUAZO BUSINESS CENTER: $10k → 8%SUAZO BUSINESS CENTER: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MA
OR
PA
NJ
UT
VA
DC
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 75 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
34

Total granted

$18M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

68%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $615k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TD
    THE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +79%
  • IH
    INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +28%
  • ZC
    Zahara Charity
    3× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +100% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • CO
    CORPORATION OF THE PRESIDING BISHOP
    one grant, 2020 · $300k
  • CH
    CHURCH HISTORY DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • GS
    Golden Spike Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -80%
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
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
3
Utah Geological Foundation
—
4
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

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

Community Improvement
5
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
6
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
7
University of Utah Foundation

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

Philanthropy
8
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
—
9
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
10
The Utah Autism Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Utah Youth Sports Academy Foundation Fka Rsl Youth Academy Foundation
Recreation & Sports
12
Utah Arts Alliance

To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Northern Utah; the most unlike its peers is Murray Rotary Club 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

84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 125 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/84
Grantees still filing
55/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,543,781 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $1,000,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSENSIGN COLLEGE: $600,000 · OtherENSIGN COLLEGETHE LIVING PLANET INC: $429,666 · OtherUTAH FRIENDS OF AMAR: $355,000 · OtherCORPORATION OF THE PRESIDING BISHOP: $300,000 · OtherLIFTING GENERATIONS INC: $300,000 · Other+67 more: $4,315,500 · Other+67 moreTHE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC: $1,624,234 · HealthTHE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDAT…INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500,000 · HealthINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE F…Zahara Charity: $1,135,000 · HealthZahara Charity+11 more: $390,000 · Health+11 moreTHRIVE-GULU INC: $1,355,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVE-GULU…Rise and Rebuild Foundation: $441,800 · Human ServicesRise and Re…Neighborhood House Association: $110,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhoo…+11 more: $145,000 · Human Services+11 moreKostopulos Dream Foundation: $871,325 · Recreation & SportsKostopulos…NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $740,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL A…SPECIAL HOOP CAMP INCORPORATED: $275,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL HO…+2 more: $47,000 · Recreation & SportsHOLE IN THE ROCK FOUNDATION: $539,500 · Arts & CultureWASATCH COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $220,000 · Arts & CultureGolden Spike Foundation: $150,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $90,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WEST: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $130,000 · Arts & CultureMentors International: $715,000 · InternationalAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $50,000 · InternationalTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC: $650,000 · Environment
Other$8,843,947Health$4,649,234Human Services$2,051,800Recreation & Sports$1,933,325Arts & Culture$1,179,500International$765,000Environment$650,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC: $1,624,234 over 5y, 19% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHRIVE-GULU INC: $1,355,000 over 5y, 80% of budgetZahara Charity: $1,135,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $871,325 over 6y, 23% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $740,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetMentors International: $715,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC: $650,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetHOLE IN THE ROCK FOUNDATION: $539,500 over 6y, 57% of budgetRise and Rebuild Foundation: $441,800 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetTHE LIVING PLANET INC: $429,666 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetLIFTING GENERATIONS INC: $300,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSPECIAL HOOP CAMP INCORPORATED: $275,000 over 2y, 92% of budgetTIMPANOGOS LEGAL CENTER: $240,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetWASATCH COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $220,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $215,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE INTERPRETER FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetSutherland Institute: $170,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetGolden Spike Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetWitherspoon Institute Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $125,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $110,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $110,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTennis For Life: $100,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH CENTER OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $80,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE CHRISTMAS BOX INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetKids on the Move Inc: $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Choral Arts Society of Utah: $65,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET WEST: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMurray Education Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSHELTER THE HOMELESS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFriends of Liahona Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH: $50,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC: $40,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOHN ADAMS COLLEGE: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetRON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBRENT & CHERI ANDRUS CHARITABLE TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetODYSSEY DANCE THEATRE: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSUAZO BUSINESS CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSANPETE PANTRY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKimball Art Center: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% 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 THE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE-GULU INC ↗
  • Who funds Zahara Charity ↗
  • Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Mentors International ↗
  • Who funds THANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLE IN THE ROCK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rise and Rebuild Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE LIVING PLANET INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFTING GENERATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL HOOP CAMP INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds TIMPANOGOS LEGAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WASATCH COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE ↗
  • Who funds THE INTERPRETER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sutherland Institute ↗
  • Who funds Golden Spike Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Witherspoon Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
  • Who funds WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds MURRAY ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Tennis For Life ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH CENTER OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗

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 Found…George S and Dolores …Larry H Miller and Ga…Pacificorp Foundation…The Community Foundat…Joan and Tim Fenton F…McCarthey Family Foun…The Miner FoundationThom & Gail Williamse…Ihc Health Services I…Dominion Energy Chari…Lawrence & Janet Dee …
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT127.5× affinity63 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 · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · The Community Foundation of Utah · Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · The Miner Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee 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 Joseph and Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foun funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph and Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foun. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%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
    3get no government money at all
    31report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to Joseph and Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foun 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 125 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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