· Private foundation
Nebeker 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,750 |
| BEAR LAKE WATCH | $6,000 |
| BYU MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $4,000 |
| ONSTAGE OGDEN | $3,000 |
| WEBER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER | $2,500 |
| LOVE IN ACTION MISSION | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY | $2,000 |
| UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA | $2,000 |
| OGDEN MUSICAL THEATRE | $2,000 |
| UVU FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| OGDEN RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +50% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 11 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- BLBEAR LAKE WATCH6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +181%
- ECECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +22%
- OSOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- LILove in Action Mission Incone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -56%
- USUNION STATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +16%
- OCOGDEN CONTEMPORARY ARTSone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
Opera Education and Performance
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
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
Music & arts performances
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salt Lake Music School Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Elation 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 33 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 86 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 BEAR LAKE WATCH ↗
- Who funds ECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONSTAGE OGDEN ↗
- Who funds UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Love in Action Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Elation Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
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: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Msl Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Douglas & Shelley Felt Family Found · Beaver Creek Foundation · Donnell B & Elizabeth D Stewart Education Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Rich Junior E & Blanche B Fdn · The Community Foundation of Utah
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 Nebeker Family 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.