· Private foundation
Michel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH LINC | $72,500 |
| BUILDING YOUTH | $32,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,271 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,971 |
| NEUROWORKS | $13,500 |
| ROTARTY INTERNATIONAL | $11,530 |
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| WEST RIDGE ACADEMY | $7,800 |
| SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC | $5,600 |
| RISE UP SCHOOL OF DANCE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $4,589 |
| CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS | $3,200 |
| HOPE AFTER POLYGAMY | $2,500 |
| YOUTH IMPACT | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
39 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- YYOUTHLINC8× · 2017–2025 · $367k · revenue +35%
- TDTHE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $243k · revenue +93%
- MFMaliheh Free Clinic3× · 2018–2020 · $117k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- RIROTARY INTERNATIONALone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SJSOUTH JORDAN ROTARY INTERNATIONALone grant, 2017 · $8k
- TFTHE FLOOD MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
The objective of this organization is to help students and workers make better career, education and finance decisions. With the influx of Afghan refugees in the USA, there is a need for resettlement assistance as well as a unique position…
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
Serving refugees living in Salt Lake County who are unable to communicate in English and do not know how to navigate the system on-call 24-7 provided free a language interpreter and guidance through the system also help during weekday…
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
Hope worldwide utah was created to serve refugee populations around the world. we seek to serve those in acute need and to offer opporunities for volunteers to join us in humanitarian trips.
At the helm foundation, our vision is a world where every child and woman can thrive regardless of background or circumstance. we are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty through education, healthcare, and sustainable development. in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Utah and the most unlike its peers is The Good Samaritan Foundation. 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.
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 20 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 91 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 YOUTHLINC ↗
- Who funds THE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 ↗
- Who funds AFRICA HEARTWOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Monument of the Americas Inc ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds RISE UP SCHOOL OF DANCE ↗
- Who funds PRO-LIFE UTAH ↗
- Who funds DESERET FIRST CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC ↗
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 · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Gardiner Adams Foundation · The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation · Semnani 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 Michel 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.