· Private foundation
M Lazy M 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY | $15,000 |
| UTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TETON VALLEY TRAILS & PATHWAYS | $8,000 |
| WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS | $5,000 |
| TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| 4TH STREET CLINIC | $5,000 |
| FAMILY SAFETY NETWORK | $5,000 |
| TETON VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| GRAND TETON PARK FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $3,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN | $2,000 |
| U OF U HEALTH SCIENCE | $2,000 |
| TEENS RUN SALT LAKE CITY | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 96% of your 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 +98% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- WCWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +157%
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +140%
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +232%
Funded once
- AARTSPACEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +40%
- TVTETON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
- USUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERAone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +19%
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.
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
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…
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.
Foster development of winter sports in utah and manage and maintain the utah olympic park, utah olympic oval and soldier hollow nordic center.
Trails Utah is dedicated to trails advocacy, planning, funding, and construction in needed areas throughout the state.
Utah Open Lands' mission is to preserve and protect open space, in perpetuity, in order to maintain Utah's natural heritage and quality of life for present and future generations. The purpose of Utah Open Lands is to permanently protect…
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Alta Club Building Foundation Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 38 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 WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TETON VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds TETON VALLEY TRAILS & PATHWAYS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SAFETY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSPACE ↗
- Who funds The Community Foundation of Utah ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds THE ALTA CLUB BUILDING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Teton Springs Foundation Inc 01 · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lazy M 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.
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.