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Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.2MArts & Culture$1.3MHealth$1.2MEnvironment$797kHuman Services$610kYouth Development$410kAnimals$157kReligion$120kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,041,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONTRIBUTIONS$3,041,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $587k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Encircle Family And Youth Resource Center: $10k → 8%Foundation For Education For Generations: $5k → 6%ENCIRCLE FAMILY AND YOUTH RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 8%FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION FOR GENERATIONS: $5k → 6%Crossroads Urban Center: $10k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $8k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $8k → 8%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHE: $5k → 9%Family Counseling Service of Northern Utah: $5k → 9%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN UTAH INC: $5k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 8%COMUNIDADES UNIDAS: $5k → 8%Senior Charity Care Foundation: $5k → 8%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%Ability Foundation: $5k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $10k → 8%Intermountain Therapy Animals: $10k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $13k → 8%People Helping People Inc: $4k → 8%Family Support Center: $5k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $5k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $15k → 8%YMCA of Northern Utah: $5k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $5k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $5k → 8%Scottish Rite Foundation of Utah: $5k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $5k → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER: $5k → 8%Utah Pride Center Inc: $5k → 8%Neighborhood House: $15k → 8%Utah Pet Partners: $4k → 8%Assistance League of Salt Lake City: $5k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $4k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $3k → 8%American Indian Services: $13k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $5k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $208k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $50k → 8%The INN Between: $13k → 8%The INN Between: $8k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $8k → 8%PETE SUAZO BUSINESS CENTER: $5k → 8%Pete Suazo Business Center: $5k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $5k → 8%The Road Home: $13k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $8k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $6k → 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 140 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

140 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 139 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

140
96

Total granted

$18M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+9%

Still filing today

91%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    2× · 2017–2020 · $400k · revenue +18%
  • IH
    INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $350k · revenue +34%
  • NH
    Neighborhood House Association
    3× · 2017–2020 · $283k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • IH
    INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH CARE
    one grant, 2019 · $250k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER SALT
    one grant, 2017 · $208k
  • US
    UTAH SYPHONY & OPERA
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
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
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
2
Utah Geological Foundation
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3
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
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.

—
5
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…

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6
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
7
University of Utah Foundation

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

Philanthropy
8
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

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

Community Improvement
9
Utah Valley Arts

Support various performing arts in utah.

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10
Utah Arts Academy

Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…

Education
11
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

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12
The Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging

Our mission is to engage with communities and catalyze private, public, and philanthropic partnerships to remedy opportunity gaps in economic opportunity, education, health, and housing in Utah.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Children; the most unlike its peers is Riversedge West. 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

167 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 167 of the 239 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)
70
Early backer (in before they grew)
160/167
Grantees still filing
126/167
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONTRIBUTIONS: $11,613,000 · OtherCONTRIBUTIONSUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $1,696,740 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $920,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY+106 more: $2,704,500 · Other+106 moreUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $400,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WEST: $70,000 · Arts & CultureUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $50,000 · Arts & CultureREPERTORY DANCE THEATRE: $40,000 · Arts & CultureECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $35,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $28,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $159,000 · Arts & CultureINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · HealthCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthMaliheh Free Clinic: $47,500 · HealthWasatch Homeless Health Care: $35,000 · HealthMOUNTAIN WEST MOTHERS MILK BANK: $25,000 · Health+14 more: $192,000 · HealthNeighborhood House Association: $282,500 · Human ServicesTHE INN BETWEEN: $32,500 · Human ServicesIntermountain Therapy Animals: $32,500 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME: $26,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $25,000 · Human ServicesCrossroads Urban Center: $25,000 · Human Services+16 more: $163,750 · Human ServicesTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $127,500 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · EducationROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah: $22,500 · Education+3 more: $29,000 · EducationUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $80,000 · EnvironmentUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentRIVERSEDGE WEST: $20,000 · EnvironmentSageland Collaborative: $13,000 · EnvironmentUTAH RIVERS COUNCIL INC: $12,500 · EnvironmentUtah Dine Bikeyah: $10,000 · EnvironmentTORREY HOUSE PRESS: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $10,000 · Environment+4 more: $20,000 · EnvironmentTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $60,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $27,500 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · AnimalsGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $21,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $15,000 · AnimalsUtah Zoological Society: $15,000 · AnimalsUTAH ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER: $15,000 · AnimalsCanines With a Cause: $10,000 · Animals+1 more: $5,000 · Animals
Other$16,934,240Arts & Culture$782,000Health$699,500Human Services$587,250Education$484,000Environment$205,500Animals$194,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 NATURE CONSERVANCY: $450,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $400,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $282,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $127,500 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $72,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBALLET WEST: $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $65,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $50,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWasatch Public Media: $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $47,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetREPERTORY DANCE THEATRE: $40,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $35,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA: $35,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN: $32,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetIntermountain Therapy Animals: $32,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetONSTAGE OGDEN: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $28,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetODYSSEY HOUSE INC - UTAH: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEnvision Utah: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN WEST MOTHERS MILK BANK: $25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY: $23,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah: $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS FOR SIGHT: $22,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetUtah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association: $22,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $21,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 3y, 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.

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.

George S and Dolores …Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…Marriner S Eccles Fou…McCarthey Family Foun…Hemingway FoundationLarry H Miller and Ga…Ihc Health Services I…David Kelby Johnson M…Pacificorp Foundation…Willard L Eccles Char…Kennecott Utah Copper…
George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT180× affinity92 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center 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 Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    66report 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
    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.
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    How do I get to Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lawrence & Janet Dee 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 239 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.

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