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Msl Family 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.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$180kEducation$162kReligion$54kEnvironment$48kHealth$39kPhilanthropy$7kHuman Services$5kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS$13,000
SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC$13,000
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH$12,000
BEAR LAKE WATCH$11,000
TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$5,000
BALLET WEST$3,000
UTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$2,000
TRAILS FOUNDATION OF N UTAH$2,000
ONSTAGE OGDEN$2,000
WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY$2,000
OGDEN NATURE CENTER$1,000
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH$1,000
ECCLES ART CENTER$1,000
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS: $19k → 8%OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $40k → 9%CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS: $13k → 8%UNION STATION FOUNDATION: $23k → 9%CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS: $8k → 8%OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $18k → 9%CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS: $7k → 8%OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $16k → 9%CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS: $4k → 8%SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $13k → 9%CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS: $4k → 8%SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $13k → 9%NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH: $12k → 8%UNION STATION FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH: $7k → 8%OGDEN UNION STATION FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH: $6k → 8%OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $12k → 9%NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH: $6k → 8%ONSTAGE OGDEN: $10k → 9%NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH: $5k → 8%UNION STATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $10k → 9%OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $7k → 9%BALLET WEST: $3k → 8%OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $5k → 9%BEAR LAKE WATCH: $15k → 8%TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $5k → 9%BEAR LAKE WATCH: $11k → 8%TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $5k → 9%TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $5k → 9%TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $5k → 9%TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $5k → 9%TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $5k → 9%ECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $4k → 9%OGDEN SYMPHONY BALLET: $4k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 9%WEBER INFAITH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ONSTAGE OGDEN: $3k → 9%WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 9%WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 9%WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 9%WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 9%WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 9%WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 9%OGDEN NATURE CENTER: $3k → 9%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$473k · 19 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$473k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+105%

Still filing today

53%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • OS
    OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $101k · revenue +69%
  • SM
    SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +189%
  • BL
    BEAR LAKE WATCH
    8× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +506%

Funded once

  • OU
    OGDEN UNION STATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • WI
    WEBER INFAITH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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 Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Utah Valley Arts

Support various performing arts in utah.

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5
University of Utah Foundation

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

Philanthropy
6
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
7
Utah Valley Operafest

Opera Education and Performance

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8
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
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9
Timpanogos Arts Foundation

The mission of the timpanogos arts foundation is to educate, enrich, and inspire by provising leadership and encoragement for artistic and cultural excellence, which enhances the quality of life for the people of american fork and…

Arts & Culture
10
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
11
Sci Utah Foundation

To ensure the future of wildlife through conservation, education and hunting.

Animals
12
Utah Metropolitan Ballet

To bring world class ballet to utah and other audiences. to educate the community on the value of dance as an art and to give the opportunity for all ages to participate

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Ogden Community Nature Ctr; the most unlike its peers is Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDS: $54,250 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LDSWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $53,150 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITYUNION STATION FOUNDATION: $46,500 · OtherUNION STATION FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $36,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHTREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $35,000 · OtherTREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUMONSTAGE OGDEN: $20,000 · OtherONSTAGE OGDENOGDEN UNION STATION FOUNDATION: $11,600 · Other+13 more: $40,600 · Other+13 moreOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $100,950 · EducationOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATIO…+1 more: $200 · EducationSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $38,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthBEAR LAKE WATCH: $31,000 · EnvironmentGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $13,500 · AnimalsECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $7,250 · Arts & CultureBALLET WEST: $3,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER: $1,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH: $6,900 · Philanthropy
Other$297,100Education$101,150Health$38,500Environment$31,000Animals$13,500Arts & Culture$12,250Philanthropy$6,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $100,950 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetUNION STATION FOUNDATION: $46,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $38,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $35,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBEAR LAKE WATCH: $31,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetONSTAGE OGDEN: $20,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $13,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $7,250 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH: $6,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWEBER PATHWAYS: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBALLET WEST: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT BRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHLINC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWeber County School District Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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 OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds BEAR LAKE WATCH ↗
  • Who funds ONSTAGE OGDEN ↗
  • Who funds GREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR ↗
  • Who funds ECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH ↗
  • Who funds WEBER PATHWAYS ↗
  • Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT BRIDGE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHLINC ↗
  • Who funds BEAR LAKE VALLEY HEALTH CARE FOUNDA ↗
  • Who funds Weber County School District 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.

Donnell B & Elizabeth…Douglas & Shelley Fel…Nebeker Family Founda…Lawrence & Janet Dee …The Alan and Jeanne H…George S and Dolores …Beaver Creek Foundati…Rich Junior E & Blanc…Willard L Eccles Char…Ralph Nye Charitable …Val a Browning Charit…Pacificorp Foundation…
Donnell B & Elizabeth D Stewart Education FoundationUT28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donnell B & Elizabeth D Stewart Education Foundation · Douglas & Shelley Felt Family Found · Nebeker Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Beaver Creek Foundation · Rich Junior E & Blanche B Fdn · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Ralph Nye Charitable Foundation · Val a Browning Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Msl Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Msl Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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