· Private foundation
Mountain America 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k232 grants · $386k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $54k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
- $250k+2 grants · $850k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hale Centre Theatre | $600,000 |
| Fullmer Legacy Foundation | $250,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities | $200,000 |
| University of Utah School of Medici | $40,000 |
| USANA Kids Eat | $14,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 234 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, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHale Centre Fdn for the ArtsEd2× · 2023–2024 · $1.2M
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $350k · revenue -10%
- MDMake-a-Wish Donation Match2× · 2022–2023 · $26k
Funded once
- HCHale Centre Theatre Ed Progone grant, 2022 · $600k
- TDTHE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +65%
- IHIntermountain Healthcare Fndone grant, 2023 · $250k
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.
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.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.
To provide hope and a brighter future for at risk, food insecure children by providing them a weekly, weekend meal bag thru a vast group of donors, advocates and volunteers who work to help us end child hunger across the valley.
We empower families to optimize the developmental potential of their young children.
The organization's mission is to prevent child abuse and neglect by strengthening at-risk families using proven interventions. Using the relief nursery model TVCRN signficantly reduces the likelihood of child maltreatment by reducing the…
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
Kitty care neuter or spay and rehome
The mission of the fscu is to strengthen utah families one community at a time by supporting parents, protecting children, and preserving families. to accomplish this mission, each family support center provides its clients with a 24-hour…
How this is measured
71 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. 71 of the 576 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 HALE CENTRE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds FULLMER LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOWEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds USANA KIDS EAT ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CARING FOR OUR YOUNG INC ↗
- Who funds Davis Education 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.
Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Making a Difference Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · The Miner Foundation · Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mountain America Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mountain America Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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