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M Lazy M Foundation at a glance

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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.

$125k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$333kArts & Culture$118kHealth$69kHuman Services$63kPhilanthropy$60kFood & Nutrition$58kRecreation & Sports$41kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY$40,000
UTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$15,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
TETON VALLEY TRAILS & PATHWAYS$8,000
4TH STREET CLINIC$5,000
FAMILY SAFETY NETWORK$5,000
TETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST$5,000
WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS$5,000
TETON VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION$4,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$3,000
GRAND TETON PARK FOUNDATION$3,000
U OF U HEALTH SCIENCE$2,000
TEENS RUN SALT LAKE CITY$2,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%RAMIRO ARANCEDO: $6k → 6%GRAND TETON PARK FOUNDATION: $6k → 5%RAMIRO ARANCEDO: $5k → 6%GRAND TETON NATL PARK FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY: $15k → 7%TETON VALLEY TRAILS & PATHWAYS: $8k → 7%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY: $7k → 7%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY: $5k → 7%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY: $5k → 7%TETON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%YWCA: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY: $5k → 7%YWCA: $5k → 8%FAMILY SAFETY NETWORK: $5k → 7%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $10k → 8%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $8k → 8%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $6k → 8%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $6k → 8%UTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $15k → 8%UTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $11k → 8%UTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $11k → 8%WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $10k → 8%UTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $10k → 8%UTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $10k → 8%UTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $10k → 8%UTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $10k → 8%WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $10k → 8%4TH STREET CLINIC: $8k → 8%4TH STREET CLINIC: $8k → 8%4TH STREET CLINIC: $8k → 8%UTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $7k → 8%JAMSIN COMISH: $8k → 8%WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $40k → 8%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $35k → 8%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $35k → 8%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $35k → 8%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $25k → 8%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $25k → 8%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $16k → 8%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $10k → 8%KATHLEEN NGUYEN: $7k → 8%KATHLEEN NGUYEN: $6k → 8%KATHLEEN NGUYEN: $6k → 8%AUDREY RIGHTER: $10k → 8%AUDREY RIGHTER: $10k → 8%AUDREY RIGHTER: $10k → 8%TAYLOR WISSLER: $13k → 8%TAYLOR WISSLER: $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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$789k · 26 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
8

Total granted

$789k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+19%

Still filing today

42%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • WC
    WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +70%
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +140%
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +232%

Funded once

  • TV
    TETON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • A
    ARTSPACEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +40%
  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +19%
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 Geological Foundation
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2
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
3
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Utah Foundation

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.…

Public Benefit
5
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
6
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.

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7
Utah World Trade Center

World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.

Community Improvement
8
Utah Athletic Foundation

Foster development of winter sports in utah and manage and maintain the utah olympic park, utah olympic oval and soldier hollow nordic center.

Recreation & Sports
9
Trails Utah

Trails Utah is dedicated to trails advocacy, planning, funding, and construction in needed areas throughout the state.

Environment
10
Utah Open Lands Conservation Association Inc

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…

Environment
11
University of Utah Foundation

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

Philanthropy
12
Utah State Fair Corporation

The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 38 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $84,000 · OtherUTAH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC: $51,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TETON VALLEY INC4TH STREET CLINIC: $47,500 · Other4TH STREET CLINICIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $25,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAHIndividual grant recipient: $23,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $21,800 · OtherYWCA: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $18,500 · Other+19 more: $140,500 · Other+19 moreWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $221,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITYWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $43,000 · Community ImprovementRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $42,000 · HealthGIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH: $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC: $11,000 · EnvironmentTETON VALLEY TRAILS & PATHWAYS INCORPORATED: $8,000 · EnvironmentUTAH FILM CENTER: $11,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ALTA CLUB BUILDING FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$466,800Education$221,000Community Improvement$43,000Health$42,000Youth Development$19,000Environment$19,000Arts & Culture$17,500

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 budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $221,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $43,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $42,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH: $19,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTETON VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $14,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTETON REGIONAL LAND TRUST INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTETON VALLEY TRAILS & PATHWAYS INCORPORATED: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetARTSPACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SAFETY NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALTA CLUB BUILDING FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetUTAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 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 ARTSPACE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SAFETY NETWORK INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Teton Springs Fou…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Community Foundation …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Teton Springs Foundation Inc 01ID13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 M Lazy M Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M Lazy M Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    7report 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.

    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 38 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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