· Private foundation
Robert F Orr Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $302k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $51,579 |
| IDAHO RIVERS UNITED | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $25,000 |
| WASATCH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $24,720 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| RODS HEROES | $20,000 |
| MINIDOKA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MAGIC VALLEY AREA HUMANITARIAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| UINTAH BASIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SUMMIT LAND CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| HAWAII WILDLIFE FUND | $10,000 |
| MAUI NUI MARINE RESOURCE | $10,000 |
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, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% 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.
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 +76% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY4× · 2020–2024 · $420k · revenue +111%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $221k · revenue +132%
- MVMagic Valley Area Humanitarian Center6× · 2020–2025 · $89k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- ASAlpine School Districtone grant, 2020 · $20k
- MCMINIDOKA COUNTY SCHOOL DIST 331 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +17%
- WCWASATCH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -9%
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.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.
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.…
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
To ensure the future of wildlife through conservation, education and hunting.
Utah water ways promotes water conservation through collaboration between government, non-profit groups, and private sector partners and empowers the public to be wise stewards of this critical shared resource.
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ouelessebougou Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Idaho Rivers United. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 50 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Magic Valley Area Humanitarian Center ↗
- Who funds IDAHO RIVERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII WILDLIFE FUND ↗
- Who funds Wasatch Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds RODS HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds OUELESSEBOUGOU ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC ↗
- Who funds Summit Land Conservancy ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINIDOKA COUNTY SCHOOL DIST 331 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds IMUA FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds Salt Lake Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds WASATCH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUN ↗
- Who funds TREE UTAH ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND EATS ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Ssir Cares Inc · McCarthey Family Foundation · American Express Foundation · Patagoniaorg · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Utah Medical Association Foundation
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 Robert F Orr Charitable 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.