· Private foundation
Rafati Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Utah Food Bank | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Humane Society of Utah | $7,500 |
| ASPCA | $6,500 |
| Eagle Mountain Chamber of Commerce | $6,400 |
| Special Needs Senior Dog Sanctuary | $6,000 |
| Jahangiri Family Foundation | $5,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $5,000 |
| Hope Clinic | $5,000 |
| Utah State University | $4,500 |
| Mercy Ships | $4,000 |
| Utah Sheriff's Association | $3,100 |
| Orrin G Hatch Foundation | $3,000 |
| HEAL Foundation | $3,000 |
| Palestine Children's Relief Fund | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% 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 +75% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 12 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH8× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +90%
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK7× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +95%
- HCHope Clinic Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- EEXITUSone grant, 2021 · $3k
- BABoys and Girls Clubone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Fundraising for healthcare to support patient care, medical education, and clinical research for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics and other similar nonprofit organizations.
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
The organization's mission is to help survivors of torture living in utah to heal from their physical and psychological injuries and rebuild their lives.
The Utah Animal Advocacy Foundation is an all-volunteer organization working to help end the euthanasia of homeless pets. We specialize in the rescue and rehabilitation of animals with special needs including seniors, injured animals,…
Help homeless Utahns improve their health and quality of life by providing high-quality health care and support services.
The Utah Public Health Association (UPHA) is a statewide membership organization dedicated to improving the health of Utah communities by supporting and representing the public health workforce. UPHA advances public health through…
The Utah Medical Association is a professional resource for member physicians providing educational opportunities and dissemination of medical knowledge and practices.
We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.
Hope alliance's mission is to expand access to high-quality vision care for individuals facing economic and geographic barriers, enabling clearer sight and brighter futures in utah and around the world.
The organization is dedicated to reducing pet overpopulation, eliminating euthanasia as a means of controlling pet overpopulation, and preventing animal suffering in utah.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Orrin G Hatch Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc. 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 20 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 67 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Hope Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mountain Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds The Heal Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
- Who funds JAHANGIRI FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER FUNDRAISER ↗
- Who funds THE ORRIN G HATCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES DEPUTY SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE ↗
- Who funds Impact Mental Health ↗
- Who funds YOR CHRISTMAS MAGIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Child Liberation Foundation Inc ↗
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: Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Semnani Family Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Rafati 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.