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Kenneth C Savage Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$7.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$18MHealth$92kInternational$9kArts & Culture$5kReligion$5kEducation$5kFood & Nutrition$2kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,839,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$202k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DECHOMAI ASSET TRUST A FLORIDA PUBLIC CHARITABLE 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION$7,839,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF UTAH$1,100,000
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 (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $1k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 54% of Kenneth C Savage Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 57% of the giving stays in UT; by stated purpose, 51%.

Kenneth C Savage Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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 Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
3
Utah Taxpayers Association

The Utah Taxpayer's Association was founded as a nonprofit, nonpartisan voluntary organization of approxiamately 2,800 businesses, professionals and individuals who work together for more efficient and effective government. The…

Civil Rights
4
One Utah Health Collaborative

The organization's purpose is focused on improving and advancing health care in utah to be more affordable, with better health outcomes by accelerating, enabling and promoting healthcare innovation.

Health
5
Utah Geological Foundation
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6
Southwest Utah Community Health Center

Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.

Health
7
University Hospital Foundation

Fundraising for healthcare to support patient care, medical education, and clinical research for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics and other similar nonprofit organizations.

Philanthropy
8
Utah State Fair Corporation

The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.

Recreation & Sports
9
Utah Leads

Utah Leads set out to understand what makes our information ecosystem in Utah unique, who is influencing policy formation in Utah, how that influence works in practice through multiple channels and across channels, and what policy…

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10
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
11
BioUtah

BioUtah was created to elevate the stature and influence of Utahs life science community on the national and global stage. The organization serves Utahs medical device, biopharma, natural products and healthcare industries through…

Community Improvement
12
Utah Foundation

Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Utah; the most unlike its peers is The Road Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Community Foundation of Utah: $10,456,589 · PhilanthropyThe Community Foundation of Utah+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyDECHOMAI ASSET TRUST A FLORIDA PUBLIC CHARITABLE 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION: $7,839,000 · OtherDECHOMAI ASSET TRUST A FLORIDA PUBLIC CHARITABLE…+7 more: $27,539 · OtherHOPE4UTAH: $68,000 · HealthCourage Reins: $5,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC: $5,000 · InternationalTIMPANOGOS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSutherland Institute: $3,000 · EducationTHE ROAD HOME: $2,000 · Human ServicesUTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$10,466,589Other$7,866,539Health$83,000International$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000Education$3,000Human Services$3,000

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 Community Foundation of Utah: $10,456,589 over 2y, 36% of budgetHOPE4UTAH: $68,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCourage Reins: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSutherland Institute: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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…Larry H Miller and Ga…George S and Dolores …Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · 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 Kenneth C Savage Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kenneth C Savage Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 19 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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