· Private foundation
Smith and Wilcox Blue Skies Foundation Fka George and Oma Wilcox and Smith Foun
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of SMITH AND WILCOX BLUE SKIES FOUNDATION FKA GEORGE AND OMA WILCOX AND SMITH FOUN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LDS CHURCH | $103,833 |
| ZAMBIA | $10,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS | $5,000 |
| CONSERVE SOUTHWEST UTAH | $5,000 |
| GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION | $5,000 |
| GRAND TETON PARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE FOREVER | $5,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $5,000 |
| SAVE OUR CANYONS | $4,000 |
| UTAH SYMPHONY | $4,000 |
| CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER | $2,500 |
| WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES | $2,500 |
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, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ZNZION NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2023 · $68k · revenue +154%
- SUSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance6× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +134%
EARTHJUSTICE7× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- SLSALT LAKE MISSIONone grant, 2021 · $5k
- MFMESA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CSCAMBIA SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.
Utah Open Lands' mission is to preserve and protect open space, in perpetuity, in order to maintain Utah's natural heritage and quality of life for present and future generations. The purpose of Utah Open Lands is to permanently protect…
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Living rivers promotes river restoration through mobilization by articulating conservation and alternative management strategies to the public. seeking to revive the natural habitat and spirit of rivers by undoing the extensive damage done…
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Folklife Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Four Paws Rescue Inc. 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 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.
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 83 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 ZION NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds Sageland Collaborative ↗
- Who funds CONSERVE SOUTHWEST UTAH ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE TO SAVE OUR ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds Western Resource Advocates ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds Taraloka Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
- Who funds FOUR PAWS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
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 · The Jones Family Charitable Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Ballard Miller Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Achelis Foundation Dba Steven B Achelis Foundation · Kanter Family Foundation · Hemingway 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 Smith and Wilcox Blue Skies Foundation Fka George and Oma Wilcox and Smith Foun 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.