· Private foundation
Semnani Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $279k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $520k
- $250k+3 grants · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD DONOR ADVISED FUND | $3,965,750 |
| UTAH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $500,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $250,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION | $125,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $110,054 |
| ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $75,000 |
| WESTMINSTER COLLEGE | $60,000 |
| US FRIENDS OF AMAR | $50,000 |
| UTAH HERITAGE & ARTS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PRIMARY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| UTAH AIDS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| USU INSTITUTE FOR LAND WATER & AIR | $20,000 |
| ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $988k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +50% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M 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
- MFMaliheh Free Clinic6× · 2019–2024 · $323k · revenue +64%
- NHNeighborhood House Association5× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +48%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $272k · revenue +99%
Funded once
CHARITY GLOBAL INCone grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +5%- UCUtah Cultural Alliance Foundationone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -69%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
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.…
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.
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…
Fundraising for healthcare to support patient care, medical education, and clinical research for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics and other similar nonprofit organizations.
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…
To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.
To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
The organization's mission is to help survivors of torture living in utah to heal from their physical and psychological injuries and rebuild their lives.
Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.
The organization's mission is to preserve and promote individual civil rights and civil liberties as guaranteed by the united states and utah constitutions and the civil rights laws within the state of utah.
USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aclu of Utah Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Persians 4 Cure. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
114 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. 114 of the 207 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN ↗
- Who funds Utah Cultural Alliance Foundation ↗
- Who funds PENNY APPEAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds SDG IMPACT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Community Foundation of Utah ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING AMERICAN FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rise and Rebuild Foundation ↗
- Who funds NUFDI FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Impact Mental Health ↗
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 · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ihc Health Services Inc · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · McCarthey Family Foundation · Wcf Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Lawrence & Janet Dee 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 Semnani Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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