· Private foundation
Lang Charitable Found
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH FUTURES UTAH | $5,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH | $5,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF UTAH | $5,000 |
| PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE INC | $5,000 |
| RITECARE OF UTAH | $4,000 |
| GUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM | $3,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE | $2,500 |
| CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS FOR SIGHT | $2,000 |
| SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES | $2,000 |
| BAD DOG ARTS | $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 (FY17–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +81% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 HOME8× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +121%
- SLSALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES6× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +73%
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- CSCHILDREN S CENTER OF UTAHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- CSCHILDREN SERVICEone grant, 2017 · $2k
- BYBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +105%
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.
The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.
Fostering preschool age children's social emotional well-being.
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…
The mission of the fscu is to strengthen utah families one community at a time by supporting parents, protecting children, and preserving families. to accomplish this mission, each family support center provides its clients with a 24-hour…
The asian association of utah (aau) was founded in 1977 and is a private, non-profit, community-based organization located in salt lake city. originally established to support asian immigrants and refugees in their transition to life in…
Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.
The organization's mission is to lead, strengthen, and support the community action network in order to build thriving communities and end poverty.
Lbhs is a nonprofit, grassroots organization created to minimize the disparities in access to mental health services among the underserved latino population concentrated in salt lake county and the rest utah. as an organization run by…
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
Friends of the children utah has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
The organization's mission is to end domestic violence in utah through advocacy, education, collaboration, and leadership. the organization is the nationally recognized domestic violence coalition for the state of utah.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Service Society of Utah and the most unlike its peers is People Helping People. 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 51 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 33 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 SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR SIGHT ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds BAD DOG ARTS ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY GATEWAY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds STAND4KIND ↗
- Who funds SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY 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.
Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Association · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillips · Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable 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 Lang Charitable Found 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.