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Simmons Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k18 grants · $320k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER F | $202,351 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOL | $52,755 |
| PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY | $50,000 |
| UTAH SYMPHONY AND OPERA | $30,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH WOMEN'S RESOURCE | $20,000 |
| SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE | $20,000 |
| PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE | $20,000 |
| SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| DISCOVERY GATEWAY | $20,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $20,000 |
| BALLET WEST | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $700k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- IHINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2021 · $770k · revenue +64%
- DEDavis Education Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · $240k · revenue +112%
- USUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA8× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- IFINTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION PRIMARY CHone grant, 2022 · $200k
- IFINTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $72k
- PTPIONEER THEATRE COMOPANYone grant, 2021 · $45k
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.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…
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…
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
The Utah Public Health Association (UPHA) is a statewide membership organization dedicated to improving the health of Utah communities by supporting and representing the public health workforce. UPHA advances public health through…
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Ability Center and the most unlike its peers is Spy Hop Productions. 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 42 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 44 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
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 INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds Davis Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds American Indian Services ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY GATEWAY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah ↗
- Who funds SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MUNDI PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Utah Parent Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WGU Advancement ↗
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 · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillips · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable 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 Simmons 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.
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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