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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,041,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONTRIBUTIONS$3,041,500
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 (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 your 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 INC: $5k → 9%Family Counseling Service of Northern Utah: $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%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $5k → 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%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

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.
$18M · 140 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you 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

+68%
+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

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

  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    2× · 2017–2020 · $400k · revenue +18%
  • IH
    INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $350k · revenue +34%
  • OS
    OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $128k · revenue +40%

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

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.

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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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Children and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyUtah Community InstitutionsSmall Business DevelopmentUtah Community ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Animal Rescue and ServiceUtah Arts & Cultural Organi…Trauma & Crisis Support Ser…Faith-Based Youth & Communi…Performing Arts Organizatio…Utah Advocacy & Civic Organ…Diverse Advocacy and Servic…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%1%<5yr15%1%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr8%34%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr8%21%35–55yr16%47%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/176
the rest of the field
15%
851/5,779

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

167 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. 167 of the 239 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
71
Early backer (in before they grew)
160/167
Grantees still filing
126/167
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONTRIBUTIONS — $11,613,000 · OtherCONTRIBUTIONSUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $1,696,740 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY — $920,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY+104 more — $2,694,500 · Other+104 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+17 more — $169,000 · 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+15 more — $197,000 · HealthNeighborhood House Association — $282,500 · Human ServicesIntermountain Therapy Animals — $32,500 · Human ServicesTHE INN BETWEEN — $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 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $10,000 · EnvironmentUtah Dine Bikeyah — $10,000 · EnvironmentTORREY HOUSE PRESS — $10,000 · Environment+3 more — $15,000 · 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$16,924,240Arts & Culture$792,000Health$704,500Human Services$587,250Education$484,000Environment$200,500Animals$194,000

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetWasatch Public Media — $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% 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 budgetMaliheh Free Clinic — $47,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetREPERTORY DANCE THEATRE — $40,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA — $35,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER — $35,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIntermountain Therapy Animals — $32,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN — $32,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetONSTAGE OGDEN — $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% 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 budgetUTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $28,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH — $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetODYSSEY HOUSE INC - UTAH — $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME — $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetCrossroads Urban Center — $25,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS — $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEnvision Utah — $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetFRIENDS FOR SIGHT — $22,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah — $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUtah Youth Symphony Orchestra Association — $22,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR — $21,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNOVA CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES — $20,000 over 3y, 6.3% 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.

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

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 Lawrence & Janet Dee 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%1%4%8%15%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
    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

    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 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 239 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.

    Source object · view filing

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