· Private foundation
M Bastian Family Foundation Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $195k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
- $250k+1 grant · $322k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Utah Valley University Foundation | $322,405 |
| Alpine School District Foundation | $52,000 |
| Primary Childrens Medical Center F | $40,000 |
| Food Care Coalition | $20,000 |
| Education Resource Development Coun | $20,000 |
| Kids On The Move | $15,000 |
| The Center for Women and Children | $10,000 |
| Women of The World | $10,000 |
| Php Foundation | $10,000 |
| Utah Refugee Connection | $10,000 |
| Meal On Wheelr Summit Utah and Wasatch | $10,000 |
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Provo City School District Foundati | $10,000 |
| Wasatch Forensic Nurses | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- UVUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +5%
- KOKids on the Move Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +79%
- HCHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- UVUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $650k
- PCPrimary Children Medical Centerone grant, 2020 · $25k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEYone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -47%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
Fundraising for healthcare to support patient care, medical education, and clinical research for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics and other similar nonprofit organizations.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
The promotion of low-income housing within the state of utah.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Women and Children in Crisis and the most unlike its peers is Php Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 32 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Alpine School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds Kids on the Move Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Center for Women and Children in Crisis ↗
- Who funds UTAH REFUGEE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds WASATCH FORENSIC NURSES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PROVO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds Community Health Connect ↗
- Who funds Women of the World ↗
- Who funds Community Action Services and Food Bank ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR CHILD ADVOCACY AND FAMILY SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds TIMPANOGOS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Neal and Sherrie Savage Family Foundation · The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family 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 M Bastian Family Foundation Trust 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.
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.