· Private foundation
Richard W Erickson 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wasatch Parks and Recreation | $4,000 |
| CAF Utah Wingnuts Aviation Museum | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Continue Mission | $2,500 |
| Vibrant America | $2,500 |
| Wasatch High School | $2,500 |
| Vintage Aviation Museum | $1,500 |
| The Horse of Many Colors Cancer Foundation | $1,500 |
| National Kidney Foundation | $1,000 |
| Utah Foster Care | $1,000 |
| Wasatch County | $800 |
| Yellowstone Forever | $52 |
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 (FY21–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 7 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- WCWasatch County4× · 2021–2025 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2021–2025 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2021–2024 · $11k
Funded once
- TOTools Of Freedom Inc - Operation Keep Em Rollingone grant, 2021 · $3k
- HVHeber Valley CAF Air Museumone grant, 2023 · $3k
- PCPRIMARY CHILDREN'S CANCERone grant, 2019 · $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.
Rescued wild mustangs from slaughter and brought them to sanctuary
To inspire the community to get outside and embrace Utahs incredible recreational amenities. We provide unique, local experiences that engage, educate and inspire participants to get outside and live healthy lifestyles.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Western Washington & Alaska supports families with seriously ill children by providing a caring home-away-from-home at the SEattle Ronald McDonald House and operating a house and a van service in…
The Volcan Mountain Foundation's mission is to preserve Volcan Mountain Range in its natural state for all generations.
To Promote Stewardship of our public lands by engaging the community in education, conservation and restoration projects.
Enable veterans to visit the war memorials built in their honor. with respect and gratitude to their service and sacrifice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Forever and the most unlike its peers is Vibrant America Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 22 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 Vibrant America Inc ↗
- Who funds CONTINUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Utah Foster Care Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Vintage Aviation Museum ↗
- Who funds Horse of Many Colors ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Richard W Erickson 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.
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.
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