· Private foundation
Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catholic Community Services of Utah | $5,000 |
| Salt Lake City Mission | $4,000 |
| MOSAIC Inter-Faith Ministries | $3,500 |
| The Road Home | $3,000 |
| Utah Food Bank | $3,000 |
| Kostopulos Dream FoundationCamp K | $2,500 |
| The Salvation Army Salt Lake City Corps | $2,500 |
| Jordan Education Foundation | $2,500 |
| Friends of the Salt Lake County Childrens Justice Center | $2,500 |
| Granite Education Foundation | $2,500 |
| Guadalupe Center | $2,500 |
| Magna FACT Inc | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| The INN Between | $2,000 |
| Crossroads Urban Center | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 44 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- TRTHE ROAD HOME5× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +117%
- GEGranite Education Foundation4× · 2019–2024 · $19k · revenue +23%
- TITHE INN BETWEEN5× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- SASLCO AGING & ADULT SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $5k
- SLSALT LAKE COUNTY AGING AND ADULTone grant, 2019 · $5k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SLCone grant, 2018 · $4k
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.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
Assisting persons with disabilities to develop independent living and social skills, assisting with housing and transportation needs, rights advocacy, and counseling.
To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…
Provides services and supports to individuals in Utah County who have intellectual disabilities.
We empower families to optimize the developmental potential of their young children.
Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.
To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.
The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.
Our mission is to engage with communities and catalyze private, public, and philanthropic partnerships to remedy opportunity gaps in economic opportunity, education, health, and housing in Utah.
USARA's mission is to connect and inspire communities to advocate for addiction recovery. We envision a Utah where recovery community and connection are recognized as the most valuable assets for people to recover from addiction.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Support Center and the most unlike its peers is Trails Utah. 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 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
102 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. 102 of the 168 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 ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds Granite Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds Jordan Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC INTER-FAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ABILITY FOUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UTAHNS AGAINST HUNGER ↗
- Who funds WORK ACTIVITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SHARING PLACE ↗
- Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
- Who funds Cancer Wellness House dba Survivor Wellness ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds TURN Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Women of the World ↗
- Who funds Utah Aids Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITYINC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOBE INC ↗
- Who funds Salt Lake Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Utah Parent Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH COUNCIL OF THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds UTAH VETERANS ALLIANCE ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillips · Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Association
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 Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable 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.
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.