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King Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$652k
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$591kHuman Services$517kYouth Development$258kHousing & Shelter$232kInternational$202kEducation$181kFood & Nutrition$126kPhilanthropy$118kOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $555k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Childrens Center$25,000
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater SL$25,000
Alzheimbers Association$20,000
Salvation Army$20,000
Building Youth Around the World$20,000
Pregnancy Resource Center of SL$20,000
Neighborhood House$20,000
Huntsman Cancer Foundation$20,000
Volunteers of America$20,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters$15,000
Haven$15,000
Friends of the Coalition$15,000
United Way of Salt Lake$15,000
Odyssey House Inc-Utah$15,000
A Chance in Life$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $413k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%A Chance in Life: $25k → 17%Single Moms Mindset Development: $5k → 8%A Chance in Life: $15k → 17%A Child's Hope Foundation: $10k → 8%Dan Gyllenskog Veterans Resource Center Foundation: $5k → 12%Family Counseling Services: $5k → 9%Dan Gyllneskog Veterans Resource Ce: $5k → 12%Family Counseling Services: $5k → 9%Family Counseling Services: $5k → 9%Family Counseling Services: $3k → 9%Common Ground Outdoor Adventures: $10k → 12%Common Ground Outdoor Adventures: $10k → 12%Common Ground Outdoor Adventures: $8k → 12%Common Ground Outdoor Adventures: $8k → 12%Common Ground Outdoor Adventures: $6k → 12%Common Ground Outdoor Adventures: $4k → 12%Crossroads Urban Center: $5k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $5k → 8%People Helping People: $5k → 8%People Helping People: $5k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $5k → 8%People Helping People: $3k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $3k → 8%South Valley Sanctuary: $10k → 8%South Valley Sanctuary: $5k → 8%Utah Youth Village: $3k → 8%People Helping People: $3k → 8%People Helping People: $3k → 8%People Helping People: $3k → 8%Pregnancy Resource Center of SL: $20k → 8%Pregnancy Resource Center of SL: $15k → 8%Pregnancy Resource Center of SL: $10k → 8%South Valley Services: $5k → 8%The Road Home: $10k → 8%The Road Home: $10k → 8%The Road Home: $10k → 8%The Road Home: $10k → 8%The Road Home: $10k → 8%Adopt-ANativeElder: $5k → 8%Utah Youth Village: $5k → 8%Utah Youth Village: $5k → 8%Utah Youth Village: $5k → 8%Neighborhood House: $20k → 8%Neighborhood House: $15k → 8%Neighborhood House: $15k → 8%Neighborhood House: $10k → 8%Neighborhood House: $10k → 8%Neighborhood House: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 65 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

65 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
23

Total granted

$2.4M
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+11%

Still filing today

63%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH
    6× · 2020–2025 · $130k · revenue +113%
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH
    6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +81%
  • NH
    Neighborhood House Association
    6× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • MS
    MOBILE SURGERY INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -45%
  • WR
    Warrior Rising
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • DO
    Dept of Orthopedics Scholarship Fund
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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2
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
3
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
4
Ability 1st Utah

Assisting persons with disabilities to develop independent living and social skills, assisting with housing and transportation needs, rights advocacy, and counseling.

Human Services
5
Skilled Sos

The objective of this organization is to help students and workers make better career, education and finance decisions. With the influx of Afghan refugees in the USA, there is a need for resettlement assistance as well as a unique position…

Employment
6
Utah Foster Care Foundation Inc

We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care

Human Services
7
Shelter Providers of Utah

To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.

—
8
Salt Lake American

Serving refugees living in Salt Lake County who are unable to communicate in English and do not know how to navigate the system on-call 24-7 provided free a language interpreter and guidance through the system also help during weekday…

Religion
9
The Christmas Box International

The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…

Community Improvement
10
Kids Who Count

We empower families to optimize the developmental potential of their young children.

Education
11
Utah Valley Family Support Center Inc

Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.

—
12
Rural Housing Development Corporation

To provide quality affordable housing opportunities to individuals and families living in Utah.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Odyssey House Inc - Utah and the most unlike its peers is Liahona Saineha High School Alumni. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%4%<5yr16%13%5–10yr18%20%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr8%20%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%1%<5yr16%5%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr8%20%35–55yr13%45%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
16%
1,191/7,488

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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 98 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
34/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $130,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAHSalvation Army — $105,000 · OtherSalvation ArmyVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH — $100,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAHBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater SL — $80,200 · OtherBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater SLUTAH FOOD BANK — $80,000 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAH — $75,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters — $70,645 · OtherGuadalupe School — $65,000 · OtherODYSSEY HOUSE INC - UTAH — $56,000 · OtherThe Good Samaritan Program — $55,000 · OtherAlzheimers Association — $55,000 · OtherUniversity of Utah Honors College — $50,000 · Other+47 more — $545,300 · Other+47 moreNeighborhood House Association — $80,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House …RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC — $52,000 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSION OF S…PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF SALT LAKE INC — $51,000 · Human ServicesPREGNANCY RESOURCE …THE ROAD HOME — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOMECOMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES — $45,000 · Human ServicesCOMMON GROUND OUTDO…A CHANCE IN LIFEINC — $40,000 · Human ServicesA CHANCE IN LIFEINCSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC — $22,000 · Human ServicesCrossroads Urban Center — $22,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE — $22,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN UTAH INC — $20,500 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE — $18,000 · Human Services+6 more — $42,500 · Human Services+6 moreMaliheh Free Clinic — $55,000 · HealthMaliheh Fre…Wasatch Homeless Health Care — $47,500 · HealthWasatch Hom…HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $45,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CA…Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc — $39,500 · HealthRonald McDo…ALLIANCE HOUSE INC — $21,000 · HealthALLIANCE HO…FIRST STEP HOUSE — $20,000 · HealthFIRST STEP …MOBILE SURGERY INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 · HealthMOBILE SURG…THE SHARING PLACE — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $6,000 · HealthCENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE — $75,000 · InternationalBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD — $37,000 · InternationalWORLD OF DIFFERENCE INC — $34,000 · InternationalWomen of the World — $25,000 · InternationalEmpower Mali — $18,000 · InternationalUTAH'S PROMISE — $70,000 · PhilanthropyASHLIN MAE KLEVEN FOUNDATION — $37,500 · PhilanthropyWarrior Rising — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropyHELPER PROJECT — $60,000 · Community ImprovementWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS — $20,000 · Community ImprovementLiahona Saineha High School Alumni — $5,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY — $53,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,467,145Human Services$465,000Health$259,000International$189,000Philanthropy$119,500Community Improvement$85,000Food & Nutrition$53,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $130,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH — $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood House Association — $80,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE — $75,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE — $70,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHELPER PROJECT — $60,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetODYSSEY HOUSE INC - UTAH — $56,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic — $55,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY — $53,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC — $52,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF SALT LAKE INC — $51,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care — $47,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES — $45,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation — $42,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetA CHANCE IN LIFEINC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc — $39,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetASHLIN MAE KLEVEN FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD — $37,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetWORLD OF DIFFERENCE INC — $34,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetBuilding Utah Youth — $26,500 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetJewish Family Service — $26,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWomen of the World — $25,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC — $22,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center — $22,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE — $22,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetALLIANCE HOUSE INC — $21,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN UTAH INC — $20,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST STEP HOUSE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEmpower Mali — $18,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE SURGERY INTERNATIONAL — $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE SHARING PLACE — $10,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWarrior Rising — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHELPING HAND ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAN GYLLENSKOG VETERANS RESOURCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAdopt-A-Native Elder — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCanines With a Cause — $7,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAUTISM COUNCIL OF UTAH — $6,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetChildren First Education Fund — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiahona Saineha High School Alumni — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE UTAH FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHILD & FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF CACHE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe American Legion — $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE ↗
  • Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds HELPER PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ODYSSEY HOUSE INC - UTAH ↗
  • Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
  • Who funds Wasatch Homeless Health Care ↗
  • Who funds COMMON GROUND OUTDOOR ADVENTURES ↗
  • Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation ↗
  • Who funds A CHANCE IN LIFEINC ↗
  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASHLIN MAE KLEVEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD ↗
  • Who funds WORLD OF DIFFERENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Building Utah Youth ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Family Service ↗
  • Who funds Women of the World ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…George S and Dolores …Marriner S Eccles Fou…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Larry H Miller and Ga…The Community Foundat…McCarthey Family Foun…Kennecott Utah Copper…Intermountain Communi…Henry W & Leslie M Es…Hemingway FoundationCastle Foundation Co …
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT61.5× affinity28 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 · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · McCarthey Family Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillips

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 King 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your 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
    14report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to King Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to King Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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