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Sally Langdon Barefoot Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$214k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$852kHealth$429kYouth Development$295kHuman Services$113kReligion$113kArts & Culture$64kCrime & Legal$62kHousing & Shelter$62kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OFSP$40,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
BREAKTHROUGH T-1DJDRF$18,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL$16,500
HEADLAND PREPARATORY SCHOOL$7,250
INN BETWEEN$6,000
DAISY SCHOOL$6,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$5,000
YOUTH IMPACT$5,000
KOMMISSION FOR KIDS$5,000
SOUTH VALLEY SERVICES$5,000
SCOTTY LAPP FOUNDATION$4,400
Individual grant recipient$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ZIONS HILL ACADEMY: $1k → 13%SOUTH VALLEY SERVICES: $10k → 8%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $5k → 14%SOUTH VALLEY SERVICES: $10k → 8%ST JOSEPH'S CENTER: $5k → 14%SOUTH VALLEY SERVICES: $5k → 8%INN BETWEEN: $12k → 8%INN BETWEEN: $6k → 8%INN BETWEEN: $2k → 8%INN BETWEEN: $2k → 8%INN BETWEEN: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
NY
NJ
CA
UT
MD
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 55 repeat orgs$254k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
27

Total granted

$2.5M
$176k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+23%

Still filing today

31%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
Human ServicesAnimalsInternationalCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SV
    SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +77%
  • TI
    THE INN BETWEEN
    5× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +29%
  • B
    BABY2BABY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • U
    UKRAINETRUSTCHAINORG
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • K
    KIDSAVE
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • EF
    EDUCATION FOR GENERAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $12k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Volunteers of America Utah

To provide community-supported paths, for those who are vulnerable, to improve their lives and increase their self-reliance. we envision a community where everyone belongs, everyone has access to the services they need, and homelessness is…

2
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

3
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
4
The Christmas Box International

The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…

Community Improvement
5
Habitat for Humanity of Utah County

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity of utah county fosters hope and unites diverse groups to improve the lives of individuals and communities by building, renovating, and repairing homes.

6
Unsheltered Utah Inc

Unsheltered utah is a grassroots non-profit effort that formed from with community members coming together to meet needs of unsheltered individuals who often have a difficult time navigating existing programs or even knowing what resources…

Human Services
7
Salt Lake Community Action Program

The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.

8
The Road Home

The primary mission is to help individuals and families step out of homelessness and back into the community in salt lake county. the road home meets this mission by providing housing-focused, emergency shelter programs, along with…

Human Services
9
Friends of Switchpoint Inc

To mobilize individuals and resources to deliver creative solutions to community problems. signifigant activities include operating homeless shelter, community food pantry and a community resource center to help those seeking employment.

Human Services
10
My Hand to Yours Inc

My hand to yours aims to feed, clothe and help the homeless people in utah.

Health
11
Utah Geological Foundation
12
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Ukraine Inc and the most unlike its peers is S-Age. 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 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr16%16%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%12%20–35yr10%32%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%64%10–20yr18%5%20–35yr10%7%35–55yr13%17%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
15%
9,685/64,816

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.

04the grantee network

23 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY — $700,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITYSHRINERS HOSPITAL — $324,500 · OtherSHRINERS HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient — $275,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $173,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientYOUTH IMPACT INCORPORATED — $163,000 · OtherYOUTH IMPACT INCORPORATED+76 more — $978,775 · Other+76 moreSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE INN BETWEEN — $24,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH CENTER — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $16,500 · InternationalHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC — $12,500 · InternationalScotty Lapp Foundation — $19,400 · Youth DevelopmentWEBER PATHWAYS — $16,250 · Civil RightsRON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 · PhilanthropyZIEGFELD THEATER ARTS — $12,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,614,275Human Services$60,000International$29,000Youth Development$19,400Civil Rights$16,250Philanthropy$13,500Arts & Culture$12,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE GRETTA FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetST ANNE'S CENTER — $27,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN — $24,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBABY2BABY — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetScotty Lapp Foundation — $19,400 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $16,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWEBER PATHWAYS — $16,250 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetRON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetZIEGFELD THEATER ARTS — $12,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR — $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetENABLEUTAH INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ORCHESTRA OF SOUTHERN UTAH — $5,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSPARK — $5,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHERN UTAH INC — $500 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
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 THE GRETTA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ST ANNE'S CENTER
  • Who funds SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC
  • Who funds THE INN BETWEEN
  • Who funds BABY2BABY
  • Who funds Scotty Lapp Foundation
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds WEBER PATHWAYS
  • Who funds RON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590
  • Who funds ZIEGFELD THEATER ARTS
  • Who funds HOPE FOR UKRAINE INC
  • Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER

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.

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 · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Dr Wc Swanson Family Foundation · The Miner Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Ralph Nye Charitable Foundation · Katherine W Dumke & Ezekiel R Dumke Jr Foundation · Donnell B & Elizabeth D Stewart Education Foundation · The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation · Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation · Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main

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 Sally Langdon Barefoot 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sally Langdon Barefoot Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sally Langdon Barefoot Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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