· Private foundation
Robert W & Barbara J Keener Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St. Ambrose Catholic Church | $24,000 |
| University of Utah David Eccles School of Business | $20,000 |
| Guadalupe Schools | $10,000 |
| Utah Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $10,000 |
| University of Kansas Endowment | $10,000 |
| University of Kansas School of Engineering | $10,000 |
| St. Jude Children's Research Hospital | $10,000 |
| Missouri Western State University Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Road Home | $7,500 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah | $6,000 |
| Covenant House | $6,000 |
| Boys & Girls of Greater Salt Lake | $6,000 |
| Cosgriff Catholic School | $5,000 |
| University of Utah -Orthopaedic Center | $5,000 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue +10%- MWMISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $16k · revenue +6%
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- WUWilliams United Way Campaign, for the benefit of the United Way of Salt Lakeone grant, 2024 · $25k
- UHUniversity Hospital Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +35%
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.
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.
Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
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To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
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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…
The National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho, a major nonprofit health organization, is dedicated to preventing diseases of the kidney, improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and families affected by kidney disease, and…
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.
The Utah Medical Association is a professional resource for member physicians providing educational opportunities and dissemination of medical knowledge and practices.
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
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How this is measured
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