· Private foundation
Smartgo 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
- Under $10k24 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MADELEINE CHOIR SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH | $20,000 |
| WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS | $15,000 |
| JUDGE MEMORIAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF GREAT SALT LAKE | $8,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN GO FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| KUER FM 90 - PUBLIC RADIO CO UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $5,000 |
| YWCA OF SALT LAKE CITY | $3,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| SALT LAKE TRIBUNE | $3,000 |
| JE COSGRIFF MEMORIAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| UTAH RIVERS COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA | $2,000 |
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, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
42 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 8 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- WCWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +157%
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK4× · 2021–2024 · $29k · revenue +5%
- FOFRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake4× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- UFUTAH FILM CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +128%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +53%
- DDONORSCHOOSEORGone grant, 2020 · $100 · revenue +1%
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 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…
Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.
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.
To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
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…
BioUtah was created to elevate the stature and influence of Utahs life science community on the national and global stage. The organization serves Utahs medical device, biopharma, natural products and healthcare industries through…
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
Envision Utah is a nonpartisan public-private partnership that engages people to create and sustain communities that are beautiful, prosperous, healthy, and neighborly for current and future residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Film Center and the most unlike its peers is Common Good Press. 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 36 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 53 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 WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
- Who funds SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA ↗
- Who funds Wasatch Homeless Health Care ↗
- Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Salt Lake Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Ultimate Players Association ↗
- Who funds TREE UTAH ↗
- Who funds App Camp for Girls ↗
- Who funds UTAH RIVERS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GOOD PRESS ↗
- Who funds STORYCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds Yoga Forward Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds Independent Arts & Media ↗
- Who funds USA Ultimate Foundation ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Utah · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Jones Family Charitable Foundation · Steiner Foundation Inc · Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillips
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 Smartgo 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.