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Linda Buehner Marsh Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Linda Buehner Marsh Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$87kArts & Culture$68kReligion$39kHealth$36kHuman Services$21kYouth Development$8kInternational$6kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$489k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNERSTONE PRODUCTIONS$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$5,000
SOUTH SUBURBAN MEN'S CLUB$4,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Neuro Restorative: $3k → 8%Water of Life: $6k → 10%Humanitarion Experience for Youth (RISE Institute for Literacy): $3k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $16k → 8%Brigham Young University: $2k → 8%Southern Utah University: $4k → 13%JOURNEY CHURCH: $3k → 3%Steamboat Free Summer Concerts: $8k → 6%Christ Community Church: $6k → 7%Brent's Place: $5k → 8%Peaceworks: $11k → 9%COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES: $3k → 12%Neuro Restorative: $3k → 8%Humanitarion Experience for Youth (RISE Institute for Literacy): $3k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $5k → 8%Brigham Young University: $8k → 8%SOUTH SUBURBAN MEN'S CLUB: $4k → 3%Cornerstone Christian Center: $5k → 7%CORNERSTONE PRODUCTIONS: $30k → 8%Peaceworks: $4k → 9%College of Engineering Development Fund: $5k → 8%Brigham Young University - Annual Fund: $5k → 8%Christ Community Church: $4k → 7%Cornerstone Productions: $20k → 8%Breckenridge Christian Ministries: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $5k → 8%CORNERSTONE PRODUCTIONS: $20k → 8%College of Engineering Development Fund: $5k → 8%CORNERSTONE PRODUCTIONS: $7k → 8%College of Engineering Development Fund: $5k → 8%Rocky Mountain Blood Center Assistance Fund: $6k → 8%University of Utah: $5k → 8%Rocky Mountain Blood Center Assistance Fund: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $5k → 8%Rocky Mountain Blood Center Assistance Fund: $6k → 8%College of Engineering Development Fund: $4k → 8%Rocky Mountain Blood Center Assistance Fund: $6k → 8%College of Engineering Development Fund: $4k → 8%SOUTH SUBURBAN MEN'S CLUB: $4k → 8%Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: $6k → 8%Cornerstone Productions: $3k → 8%Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints - Missionary Fund: $5k → 8%South Suburban Men's Club: $2k → 8%CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF THE LATTER DAY SAINTS: $2k → 8%South Suburban Men's Club: $2k → 8%Brighton High -Canyons Education Foundation: $5k → 8%Brighton High School for the At Risk Tean: $3k → 8%Cottonwood Heights 7th Ward: $5k → 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$237k · 14 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
16

Total granted

$237k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+48%

Still filing today

29%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterEnvironmentRecreation & 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

  • CP
    CORNERSTONE PRODUCTIONS LTD
    4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +159% · 45% of their budget
  • PI
    PEACEWORKS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +23%
  • RI
    RISE INSTITUTE FOR LITERACY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • SF
    Steamboat Free Summer Concerts
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • SF
    SET FREE ALLIANCE (F/K/A WATER OF LIFE)graduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +196%
  • TC
    THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
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
Safehouse Denver Inc

Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…

Human Services
2
The Rock Ministries

To preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Nations

Human Services
3
Stone Family Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Brentwood Foundation
—
5
Brentwood Foundation
—
6
Rocky Mountain Foundation
Human Services
7
Brookestrong Foundation
Food & Nutrition
8
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.

Human Services
9
Brian Littleton Foundation
Education
10
Rocky Wall Productions
—
11
Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence Inc

To provide safe shelter, support and advocacy for adults and their children, and to provide an end to violence against adults, youth and children through support, advocacy and community organizing.

Human Services
12
The Aspen Strong Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Set Free Alliance (F/K/a Water of Life); the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone Productions Ltd. 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

11 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. 11 of the 30 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $35,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHROCKY MOUNTAIN BLOOD CANCER ASSISTANCE FUND: $24,600 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN BLOOD CANCER ASSISTANCE FUNDCollege of Engineering Development Fund: $23,000 · OtherCollege of Engineering Development FundPEACEWORKS INC: $14,513 · OtherPEACEWORKS INCBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $11,050 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYChrist Community Church: $10,000 · OtherSOUTH SUBURBAN MEN'S CLUB: $8,000 · OtherSteamboat Free Summer Concerts: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · Other+13 more: $52,100 · Other+13 moreCORNERSTONE PRODUCTIONS LTD: $79,750 · ReligionCORNERSTONE PRODUCTIONS LTDBRECKENRIDGE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $3,000 · ReligionRISE INSTITUTE FOR LITERACY: $6,000 · EducationSET FREE ALLIANCE (F/K/A WATER OF LIFE): $6,000 · InternationalBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthDOVE CENTER INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSouth Suburban Mens Golf Club: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $500 · Environment
Other$193,263Religion$82,750Education$6,000International$6,000Health$5,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Recreation & Sports$4,000Environment$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCORNERSTONE PRODUCTIONS LTD: $79,750 over 4y, 45% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BLOOD CANCER ASSISTANCE FUND: $24,600 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetPEACEWORKS INC: $14,513 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetRISE INSTITUTE FOR LITERACY: $6,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetSET FREE ALLIANCE (F/K/A WATER OF LIFE): $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRENT ELEY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOVE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Suburban Mens Golf Club: $4,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBRECKENRIDGE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN UTAH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $500 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 CORNERSTONE PRODUCTIONS LTD ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BLOOD CANCER ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
  • Who funds PEACEWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds RISE INSTITUTE FOR LITERACY ↗
  • Who funds SET FREE ALLIANCE (F/K/A WATER OF LIFE) ↗
  • Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOVE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds South Suburban Mens Golf Club ↗
  • Who funds BRECKENRIDGE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN UTAH ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

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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 Linda Buehner Marsh Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Linda Buehner Marsh Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Linda Buehner Marsh Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Linda Buehner Marsh Family Charitable 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 30 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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