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Kanter Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k39 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $314k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hyde Park Art Center | $50,000 |
| Chikaming Open Lands | $50,000 |
| John F Kennedy Center | $47,443 |
| Better Utah Institute | $45,000 |
| University of Chicago Smart Museum | $40,000 |
| Lubeznik Center for the Arts | $36,650 |
| Arena Stage | $20,000 |
| Temple Rodef Shalom | $18,500 |
| The Langley School | $17,500 |
| Utah Museum of Contemporary Art | $15,000 |
| Crohn's and Colitis Foundation | $12,500 |
| Tulane University | $11,000 |
| Kenya Education Fund | $10,000 |
| University of Chicago | $10,000 |
| Rowland Hall St Mark's School | $10,000 |
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, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 15 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
HYDE PARK ART CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $565k · revenue +44%- BUBetter Utah Institute8× · 2017–2024 · $399k · revenue +421% · 68% of their budget
- RHROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $261k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- TEThe Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence EFSGVone grant, 2018 · $40k
- MMMedia Matters of Americaone grant, 2018 · $30k
- ISILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +24%
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.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.
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.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
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…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hannah & Friends Weis Family Foundation 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 191 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 HYDE PARK ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds Better Utah Institute ↗
- Who funds ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE JACK AND SHIRLEY LUBEZNIK CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE LANGLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds Utah Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds KENYA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON DRAMA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHIKAMING OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK STUDENT FUND ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds AND JUSTICE FOR ALL ↗
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: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ballard Miller Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lightspark 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 Kanter 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% 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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