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SJ and Jessie E Quinney Foundation at a glance

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SJ and Jessie E Quinney 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.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$6.8MEducation$4.3MEnvironment$3.4MPhilanthropy$3.0MArts & Culture$2.6MHealth$482kHuman Services$286kInternational$147kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $327k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $621k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.2M
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Renaissance Charitable Foundation$1,395,000
Utah State University - LWA Institute$1,000,000
Utah State University - Quinney College of Natural Resources$575,000
Intermountain Medical Foundation for Primary Childrens Hospital$250,000
University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law$150,000
University of Utah - University Development Office$136,000
Ballet West$130,000
Huntsman Mental Health Institute$100,000
Utah Symphony and Opera$55,000
The Salt Lake Tribune$50,000
The McGillis School$35,000
Planned Parenthood Association of Utah$31,000
Moab Music Festival$30,000
Guadalupe Schools$30,000
We Are Limitless$27,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Street Soccer USA Inc: $7k → 17%Warrior Rizen Foundation: $16k → 4%The Jared Prescott Charitable Trust: $5k → 6%The Jared Prescott Charitable Trust: $5k → 6%The Jared Prescott Charitable Trust: $5k → 6%The Bridgid Alliance: $3k → 17%The Brigid Alliance: $3k → 17%The Bridgid Alliance: $2k → 17%Utah Pride Center: $7k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $5k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $5k → 8%Neighborhood House: $31k → 8%Neighborhood House: $20k → 8%Neighborhood House: $16k → 8%Neighborhood House: $16k → 8%Neighborhood House: $12k → 8%Neighborhood House: $11k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 53 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

53 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
15

Total granted

$17M
$616k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+121%

Still filing today

58%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $459k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BW
    BALLET WEST
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +69%
  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    6× · 2017–2024 · $302k · revenue +18%
  • MM
    MOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $121k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • US
    Utah State University - SJ and Jessie E Quinney College of Natural Resource
    one grant, 2017 · $507k
  • MC
    MOAB CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • TM
    The Madeline Choir School
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
3
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Utah Foundation

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.…

Public Benefit
5
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

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6
Utah Arts Academy

Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…

Education
7
Utah World Trade Center

World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.

Community Improvement
8
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

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.

Environment
9
Utah State Fair Corporation

The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.

Recreation & Sports
10
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
11
Summit Land Conservancy

Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.

Environment
12
Utah Water Ways Inc

Utah water ways promotes water conservation through collaboration between government, non-profit groups, and private sector partners and empowers the public to be wise stewards of this critical shared resource.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Worldwide Addiction Recovery Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/52
Grantees still filing
37/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law: $6,815,542 · OtherUniversity of Utah SJ Quinney College of LawUtah State University - LWA Institute: $3,152,000 · OtherUtah State University - LWA InstituteUtah State University - Quinney College of Natural Resources: $2,625,000 · OtherUtah State University - Quinney College of Natural ResourcesUniversity of Utah - University Development Office: $748,572 · Other+46 more: $1,933,690 · Other+46 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,550,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILAN…Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,395,000 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Cha…+2 more: $26,000 · PhilanthropyBALLET WEST: $1,776,690 · Arts & CultureBALLET WESTUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $302,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY…MOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $121,000 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute: $92,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $186,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreUTAH LAND USE INSTITUTE: $70,000 · EducationMOAB CHARTER SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationTHE MCGILLIS SCHOOL: $35,000 · EducationUtah Hispanic Business Leadership Foundation: $15,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationNeighborhood House Association: $106,000 · Human ServicesUtah Pride Center Inc: $17,000 · Human ServicesWARRIOR RIZEN FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Human ServicesTHE JARED PRESCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $94,000 · HealthFight the New Drug Inc: $20,000 · HealthWORLDWIDE ADDICTION RECOVERY LTD: $15,000 · HealthWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTHE FAMILY CONNECTION CENTER INC DBA OPEN DOORS SOCIAL SERVICES: $42,500 · Crime & LegalThe Other Side Academy: $22,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$15,274,804Philanthropy$2,971,000Arts & Culture$2,477,690Education$179,000Human Services$168,000Health$135,000Crime & Legal$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBALLET WEST: $1,776,690 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,550,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $1,395,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $302,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetwe are limitless inc: $122,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetMOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $121,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $106,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $94,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSundance Institute: $92,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVISUAL ART INSTITUTE: $72,500 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $72,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH LAND USE INSTITUTE: $70,000 over 6y, 52% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $66,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMOAB CHARTER SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTHE FAMILY CONNECTION CENTER INC DBA OPEN DOORS SOCIAL SERVICES: $42,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetALF ENGEN SKI MUSEUM FOUNDATION IN: $41,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetMOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MCGILLIS SCHOOL: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLEN CANYON INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC: $28,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY: $22,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Other Side Academy: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFight the New Drug Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetUtah Pride Center Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWARRIOR RIZEN FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JARED PRESCOTT CHARITABLE TRUST: $15,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetUTAH RIVERS COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetIJ & JEANNE WAGNER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUtah Blues Society: $10,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetZION CANYON MESA: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTREET SOCCER USA INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREATHE UTAH: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
  • Who funds we are limitless inc ↗
  • Who funds MOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH ↗
  • Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
  • Who funds VISUAL ART INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds UTAH LAND USE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds MOAB CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY CONNECTION CENTER INC DBA OPEN DOORS SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ALF ENGEN SKI MUSEUM FOUNDATION IN ↗
  • Who funds MOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho ↗
  • Who funds THE MCGILLIS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GLEN CANYON INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds The Other Side Academy ↗

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.

George S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…Sorenson Legacy Found…Marriner S Eccles Fou…Willard L Eccles Char…Janet Q Lawson Founda…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Palladium FoundationDavid Kelby Johnson M…Hemingway FoundationPacificorp Foundation…Emma Eccles Jones Fou…
George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT40.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Janet Q Lawson Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Palladium Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Emma Eccles Jones Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization SJ and Jessie E Quinney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from SJ and Jessie E Quinney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to SJ and Jessie E Quinney 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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