Utah · Private foundation
Robert H & Katharine B Garff 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.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2024
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,037,350
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 46
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Robert H & Katharine B Garff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 48 | $2.6M | 54% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $2.7M | 46% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $1.3M | 69% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $4.5M | 86% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $4.7M | 78% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $2.8M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Utah | $14,749,563 | 7 | n/a |
| Utah Sports Commission Foundation | $308,000 | 3 | 21% |
| The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Utahs First Lady Foundation | $105,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Weber State University | $66,852 | 5 | n/a |
| Utah Valley University | $42,583 | 3 | n/a |
| Ken Garff for Good | $38,300 | 2 | 1% |
| Transcend International | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Good Deed Revolution | $20,000 | 3 | 6% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert H & Katharine B Garff Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Call Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · Wcf Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Robert H & Katharine B Garff Foundation with peer funders
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About Robert H & Katharine B Garff Foundation
- How much does Robert H & Katharine B Garff Foundation give?
- Robert H & Katharine B Garff Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $2,632,761 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Robert H & Katharine B Garff Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (77%), Arts & Culture (18%), Recreation & Sports (2%).
- Who are Robert H & Katharine B Garff Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: University of Utah ($15M), Utah Sports Commission Foundation ($308k), The Martin Luther King Jr Center For Nonviolent Social Change Inc ($250k).
- Does Robert H & Katharine B Garff Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert H & Katharine B Garff 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 Robert H & Katharine B Garff Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation, Sorenson Legacy Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation.
- Where is Robert H & Katharine B Garff Foundation based?
- Robert H & Katharine B Garff Foundation is based in UT.
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