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Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33M
Granted FY2024still arriving
324
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$48MPhilanthropy$19MHealth$19MPublic Benefit$8.4MArts & Culture$7.7MRecreation & Sports$6.5MHuman Services$5.7MHousing & Shelter$3.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 324 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k59 grants · $312k
  • $10k–50k163 grants · $3.1M
  • $50k–250k76 grants · $6.4M
  • $250k+26 grants · $23M
$25,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$774M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Salt Lake County Foundation$10,035,000
University of Utah$1,976,974
Ukraine House DC Foundation Inc$1,000,000
Ogden-Weber Technical College Foundation$1,000,000
Friends Of Switchpoint Inc$1,000,000
Utah Historical Society$1,000,000
Neuroworx$1,000,000
Utah Summer Games Foundation$625,000
Brigham Young University$600,000
Utah's Promise$500,000
St George Musical Theater$500,000
Utah Symphony Utah Opera$400,000
Thanksgiving Point Institute$325,000
Huntsman Mental Health Foundation$325,000
Utah Sports Commission Foundation$300,000
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 (FY21–24, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Chicanos Por La Causa Inc: $150k → 11%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $500k → 8%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%Charity Water: $100k → 4%Box Elder Family Support Center: $20k → 8%Deseret Heritage Association: $8k → 11%Lauren McCluskey Foundation: $5k → 20%Wabisabi Inc: $15k → 11%Active Re-Entry: $50k → 14%Association For Growth And Education: $25k → 10%A Child's Hope Foundation: $25k → 8%YCC Family Crisis Center: $25k → 9%KONY Charities DBA KONY Coins for Kids: $19k → 10%Seekhaven Inc: $10k → 11%A CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%Friends Of Switchpoint Inc: $1.0M → 10%Hearsee: $15k → 10%Utah FFA Foundation: $25k → 12%Safe Harbor Crisis Center: $30k → 6%Continue Mission: $25k → 6%Generationall: $25k → 8%Utah Foster Care Foundation: $100k → 8%Cities Strong Foundation: $10k → 8%Senior Charity Care Foundation: $9k → 8%Intermountain Therapy Animals: $10k → 8%The Sandy Club A Safe Place For Boys & Girls: $35k → 8%Utah Diaper Bank: $10k → 8%The Bradley Center for Grieving Children and Families: $8k → 8%Wasatch Recovery Foundation: $80k → 8%Holding Out HELP: $50k → 8%YMCA of Northern Utah: $50k → 8%HOLDING OUT HELP: $15k → 8%Ward Foundation: $10k → 8%South Valley Services: $29k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $150k → 8%The Road Home: $105k → 8%The INN Between: $100k → 8%Bear O Care: $5k → 8%American Indian Services: $25k → 8%Utah Refugee Connection: $2k → 8%Neighborhood House: $240k → 8%Suazo Business Center: $50k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
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IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
FL

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$98M · 99 repeat orgs$28M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.

99 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 229 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
87

Total granted

$98M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+0%

Still filing today

83%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • SL
    Salt Lake Community College Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $7.9M · revenue +80%
  • WS
    WATERFORD SCHOOL HOLDING CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +50%
  • HM
    HUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +165% · 67% of their budget

Funded once

  • SL
    SALT LAKE COUNTY PARKS AND REC
    one grant, 2021 · $4.0M
  • EC
    ENSIGN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $3.0M
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +60% · 26% of their budget

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
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
4
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
5
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
6
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
7
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
9
Utah Education Fits All

To ensure utah families have the freedom and access to choose the best fit for their childs education.

Education
10
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
—
11
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

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12
Utah Youth Sports Academy Foundation Fka Rsl Youth Academy Foundation
Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hollow Tree Honey Foundation. 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 22 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number30%8%<5yr17%17%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr8%18%35–55yr13%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value30%4%<5yr17%7%5–10yr18%28%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr8%18%35–55yr13%24%55yr+

The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%2/340
the rest of the field
16%
1,550/9,754

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

301 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. 301 of the 420 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.

20
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
298/301
Grantees still filing
142/301
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $16,263,294 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY — $6,000,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITYCORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENT — $5,629,947 · OtherCORPORATION OF THE PRESIDENTSALT LAKE COUNTY PARKS AND REC — $4,000,000 · OtherSALT LAKE COUNTY PARKS AND RECHUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $3,825,000 · OtherHUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY — $3,000,000 · OtherENSIGN COLLEGE — $3,000,000 · Other+93 more — $25,724,472 · Other+93 moreSalt Lake Community College Foundation — $7,900,000 · EducationSalt Lake Comm…WATERFORD SCHOOL HOLDING CORPORATION — $5,065,000 · EducationWATERFORD SCHO…Sutherland Institute — $900,000 · EducationSutherland Ins…+20 more — $2,095,750 · Education+20 moreSALT LAKE COUNTY FOUNDATION — $10,076,000 · Human ServicesSALT LAKE COU…FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF SW…SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER — $780,000 · Human ServicesIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC — $500,000 · Human Services+22 more — $2,620,200 · Human Services+22 moreINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $9,000,000 · HealthINTERMOUNTAI…THE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC — $1,650,000 · HealthTHE DR DALE …ANASAZI FOUNDATION — $1,180,000 · HealthANASAZI FOUN…MADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC — $600,000 · Health+13 more — $1,036,000 · Health+13 moreHALE CENTRE THEATRE — $3,250,000 · Arts & CultureUKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $800,000 · Arts & CultureST GEORGE MUSICAL THEATER — $500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ORRIN G HATCH FOUNDATION — $500,000 · Arts & CultureGolden Spike Foundation — $250,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $952,000 · Arts & CultureEBA FOUNDATION ABIGAIL BLACK ELBAUM TRUSTEE — $1,400,000 · PhilanthropyThe Community Foundation of Utah — $1,100,000 · PhilanthropyUTAH'S PROMISE — $650,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $355,000 · PhilanthropyPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $275,000 · PhilanthropyRON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 · Philanthropy+6 more — $391,000 · PhilanthropyThe Other Side Academy — $1,020,000 · Crime & LegalClean Slate Utah — $400,000 · Crime & LegalSalt Lake City Foundation — $218,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more — $90,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$67,442,713Education$15,960,750Human Services$14,976,200Health$13,466,000Arts & Culture$7,252,000Philanthropy$4,346,000Crime & Legal$1,728,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSALT LAKE COUNTY FOUNDATION — $10,076,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $9,000,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetSalt Lake Community College Foundation — $7,900,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetWATERFORD SCHOOL HOLDING CORPORATION — $5,065,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetHUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $3,825,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetHALE CENTRE THEATRE — $3,250,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetSHELTER THE HOMELESS INC — $1,770,147 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC — $1,650,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetTHE POLICY PROJECT — $1,425,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetEBA FOUNDATION ABIGAIL BLACK ELBAUM TRUSTEE — $1,400,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH — $1,310,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $1,200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetANASAZI FOUNDATION — $1,180,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah — $1,100,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetThe Other Side Academy — $1,020,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY — $1,020,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetFRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetUKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetOGDEN - WEBER TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetSutherland Institute — $900,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $800,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER — $780,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $700,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE — $650,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMADISON HOUSE AUTISM FOUNDATION INC — $600,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetGARY & JEANETTE HERBERT FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetST GEORGE MUSICAL THEATER — $500,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetTHE ORRIN G HATCH FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSPORTSMEN FOR FISH & WILDLIFE INC — $500,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWomen of the World — $420,875 over 3y, 18% of budgetClean Slate Utah — $400,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $355,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood House Association — $340,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC — $325,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMORE GOOD FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetUtah Sports Commission Foundation — $300,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE UTAH HEALTH COLLABORATIVE — $300,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetZION NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION — $290,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWeber County School District Foundation — $286,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER — $275,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME — $265,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGolden Spike Foundation — $250,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF UTAH COUNTY INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah — $250,000 over 2y, 2.5% 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.

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 …The Community Foundat…Ihc Health Services I…McCarthey Family Foun…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Pacificorp Foundation…The Miner FoundationIntermountain Communi…David Kelby Johnson M…Marriner S Eccles Fou…Kennecott Utah Copper…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT207.8× affinity127 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 · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ihc Health Services Inc · McCarthey Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · The Miner Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center 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 Larry H Miller and Gail Miller 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 · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    65report 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 Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Larry H Miller and Gail Miller 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 420 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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