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Paul E and Mary Grace Utterback 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.

$72k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$11,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 16
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$978k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Paul E and Mary Grace Utterback Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCivil RightsAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$72k7%
FY202415$66k33%
FY202312$60k0%
FY202216$75k44%
FY202111$75k36%
FY202013$60kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$97kHealth$88kEducation$43kFood & Nutrition$41kHuman Services$40kHousing & Shelter$37kPhilanthropy$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
UT
MO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
MS
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($195k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paul E and Mary Grace Utterback Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClassroom Central Inc: $43,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered: $19,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGateway Housing First Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRoof Above Inc: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPromo Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetNational Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression: $14,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Justice: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeyond Housing Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi Center for Public Policy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa of St Louis: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Residence D/B/A Doorways: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Outreach Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

United Way of Greater St Louis IncMO13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Paul E and Mary Grace Utterback Foundation

How much does Paul E and Mary Grace Utterback Foundation give?
Paul E and Mary Grace Utterback Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $72,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Paul E and Mary Grace Utterback Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Health (22%), Education (11%).
Who are Paul E and Mary Grace Utterback Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Classroom Central Inc ($43k), Blood Cancer United Inc ($40k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered ($19k).
Does Paul E and Mary Grace Utterback Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paul E and Mary Grace Utterback Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paul E and Mary Grace Utterback Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Edward Jones Foundation.
Where is Paul E and Mary Grace Utterback Foundation based?
Paul E and Mary Grace Utterback Foundation is based in MS.

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 30 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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