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Robert F Orr Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$537k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.1MYouth Development$436kArts & Culture$325kEnvironment$165kHuman Services$136kHealth$117kPhilanthropy$55kAnimals$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $302k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
RODS HEROES$20,000
HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION$20,000
MINIDOKA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
NATIONAL INVESTORS HALL OF FAME INC$10,000
MAGIC VALLEY AREA HUMANITARIAN CENTER$10,000
SUMMIT LAND CONSERVANCY$10,000
HAWAII WILDLIFE FUND$10,000
MAUI NUI MARINE RESOURCE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RODS HEROES: $20k → 12%MAGIC VALLEY AREA HUMANITARIAN CENTER: $20k → 12%RODS HEROES: $10k → 12%MAGIC VALLEY AREA HUMANITARIAN CENTER: $19k → 12%MAGIC VALLEY AREA HUMANITARIAN CENTER: $15k → 12%RODS HEROES: $2k → 12%MAGIC VALLEY AREA HUMANITARIAN CENTER: $15k → 12%MAGIC VALLEY AREA HUMANITARIAN CENTER: $10k → 12%MAGIC VALLEY AREA HUMANITARIAN CENTER: $10k → 12%ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
CA
UT
VA
MD
DC
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 33 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
14

Total granted

$2.3M
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+17%

Still filing today

64%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $420k · revenue +111%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $221k · revenue +132%
  • MV
    Magic Valley Area Humanitarian Center
    6× · 2020–2025 · $89k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • AS
    Alpine School District
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • MC
    MINIDOKA COUNTY SCHOOL DIST 331 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +17%
  • WC
    WASATCH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUN
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -9%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

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.

Environment
3
The Community Foundation of Utah

We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.

Philanthropy
4
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
5
Utah Foundation

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.…

Public Benefit
6
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
7
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
9
Sci Utah Foundation

To ensure the future of wildlife through conservation, education and hunting.

Animals
10
Utah Water Ways Inc

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.

Environment
11
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

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12
Southwest Utah Community Health Center

Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ouelessebougou Alliance; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $287,000 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYWATERFORD SCHOOL: $280,000 · OtherWATERFORD SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $136,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $61,000 · Other+25 more: $354,320 · Other+25 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY: $420,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB…UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $220,791 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…MINIDOKA COUNTY SCHOOL DIST 331 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationMINIDOKA COU…Salt Lake Community College Foundation: $11,200 · EducationWASATCH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUN: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationIDAHO RIVERS UNITED: $85,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII WILDLIFE FUND: $37,000 · EnvironmentSummit Land Conservancy: $20,000 · EnvironmentTREE UTAH: $10,000 · Environment+2 more: $4,000 · EnvironmentMagic Valley Area Humanitarian Center: $88,500 · Human ServicesRODS HEROES INC: $32,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME: $6,000 · Human ServicesRENAISSANCE ART CENTER INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $3,000 · Health
Other$1,368,320Youth Development$420,000Education$262,991Environment$156,000Human Services$126,500Arts & Culture$70,000Health$68,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY: $420,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $220,791 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMagic Valley Area Humanitarian Center: $88,500 over 6y, 19% of budgetIDAHO RIVERS UNITED: $85,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetRENAISSANCE ART CENTER INC: $70,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII WILDLIFE FUND: $37,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetWasatch Community Foundation: $34,720 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetRODS HEROES INC: $32,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetOUELESSEBOUGOU ALLIANCE: $31,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $21,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINIDOKA COUNTY SCHOOL DIST 331 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD: $16,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetIMUA FAMILY SERVICES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSalt Lake Community College Foundation: $11,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASATCH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTREE UTAH: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT COMMUNITY GARDENS AND EATS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION COUNCIL FOR HAWAII: $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGUITO RIVER VALLEY LAND CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…Dominion Energy Chari…Larry H Miller and Ga…George S and Dolores …Petersen Bruce & Ceci…David Kelby Johnson M…Ssir Cares IncMcCarthey Family Foun…American Express Foun…PatagoniaorgC Scott & Dorothy E W…Utah Medical Associat…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert F Orr Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert F Orr Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 50 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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