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Lang Charitable Found

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$90kHealth$85kHuman Services$83kHousing & Shelter$48kFood & Nutrition$23kEducation$15kArts & Culture$7kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$792k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH FUTURES UTAH$5,000
THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH$5,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF UTAH$5,000
THE ROAD HOME$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
BAD DOG ARTS$2,000
FRIENDS FOR SIGHT$2,000
SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES$2,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $5k → 14%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $3k → 14%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $2k → 14%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE INC: $5k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $2k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $2k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $4k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $6k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $3k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $3k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $4k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $4k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $4k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $3k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $3k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $2k → 8%ASSITANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $2k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $5k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $3k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $3k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $3k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $3k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $2k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY: $2k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$323k · 22 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +50% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
8

Total granted

$323k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+50%

Still filing today

68%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TR
    THE ROAD HOME
    8× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +121%
  • SL
    SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES
    6× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +73%
  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    7× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • CS
    CHILDREN S CENTER OF UTAH
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • CS
    CHILDREN SERVICE
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • BY
    BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +105%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
House of Hope

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

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2
Salt Lake Community Action Program

The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.

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3
The Sammy Center

Fostering preschool age children's social emotional well-being.

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4
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
5
Utah Association of Family Support Centers Inc

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…

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6
Asian Association of Utah

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…

Human Services
7
Urban Peak Denver

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
Utah Community Action Partnership Association Inc

The organization's mission is to lead, strengthen, and support the community action network in order to build thriving communities and end poverty.

Human Services
9
Latino Behavioral Health Services

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…

Human Services
10
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
11
Friends of the Children - Utah

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…

Youth Development
12
Utah Domestic Violence Advisory Council

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Service Society of Utah; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 33 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
21/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $23,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSUTAH FOOD BANK: $23,000 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $22,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAHFRIENDS FOR SIGHT: $17,000 · OtherFRIENDS FOR SIGHTRITE CARE: $17,000 · OtherRITE CAREYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah: $13,000 · OtherYoung Women's Christian Association of UtahYOUTH FUTURES UTAH: $12,500 · OtherYOUTH FUTURES UTAHBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF: $11,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OFGUADALUPE SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherGUADALUPE SCHOOLSVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $9,500 · Other+8 more: $26,500 · Other+8 moreTHE ROAD HOME: $31,500 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOMEUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $21,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCEUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $16,500 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH VILLAGECrossroads Urban Center: $16,500 · Human ServicesCrossroads Urban CenterPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $10,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLEPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $9,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesSALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES: $24,500 · HealthBAD DOG ARTS: $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentDISCOVERY GATEWAY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $7,000 · Arts & CultureBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah: $5,000 · EducationSTAND4KIND: $2,000 · EducationBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD: $2,000 · InternationalNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$184,500Human Services$106,500Health$24,500Youth Development$20,000Arts & Culture$7,000Education$7,000International$2,000Recreation & Sports$1,000

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 ROAD HOME: $31,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES: $24,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $23,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $21,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS FOR SIGHT: $17,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $16,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBAD DOG ARTS: $13,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $9,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY GATEWAY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHELTER THE HOMELESS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
  • 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 GIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY GATEWAY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • 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 SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC ↗
  • Who funds STAND4KIND ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗

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…Dominion Energy Chari…Marriner S Eccles Fou…Kennecott Utah Copper…Lawrence & Janet Dee …George S and Dolores …Herbert I & Elsa B Mi…Henry W & Leslie M Es…Hemingway FoundationCastle Foundation Co …Petersen Bruce & Ceci…C Scott & Dorothy E W…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT40.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lang Charitable Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lang Charitable Found. 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report 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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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