· Private foundation
On Your Mark
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $193k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $108,935 |
| WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY | $84,357 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $26,000 |
| XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $10,689 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| SNOW COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $4,000 |
| COLLEGE OF SOUTHERN IDAHO | $3,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-ID | $3,000 |
| UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSAL SCHOOL OF HORSE DENTISTRY | $2,000 |
| UTAH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| OGDEN-WEBER APPL TECH | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% of its 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.
27 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Southern Methodist University2× · 2023–2024 · $149k · revenue +14%- WUWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +24%
- MUMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE4× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- SLSALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $5k
- SNSouthern New Hampshire Universitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +100%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WYOMINGone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Wgu's mission is to change lives for the better by creating pathways to opportunity. wgu does this by operating and administering an institution of higher education and learning.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 40 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
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 Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds OGDEN - WEBER TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds Southern New Hampshire University ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Davis Technical College Foundation Inc ↗
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: Marriner S Eccles Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization On Your Mark funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from On Your Mark. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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