· Private foundation
Sorenson Legacy 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $183k
- $10k–50k179 grants · $3.6M
- $50k–250k42 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+12 grants · $21M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROCKER CATALYST FOUNDATION | $5,675,000 |
| DESERET TRUST COMPANY | $5,000,000 |
| INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC | $1,800,000 |
| U OF U - SCMI BUILDING | $1,750,000 |
| JDRF INTERNATIONAL | $1,500,000 |
| THOM & GAIL WILLIAMSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION | $1,161,000 |
| ELIZABETH ACADEMY | $1,030,000 |
| U OF U - COLLEGE OF EDUCATION | $826,200 |
| AMERICAN HERITAGE SCHOOLS INC | $775,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF UTAH | $666,667 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $381,333 |
| U OF U - TANNER DANCE | $260,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $210,000 |
| BILL OF RIGHTS INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME | $200,000 |
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, $13.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 9% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
502 repeat relationships — 246 still active in FY2024, 256 since wound down; 17 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M 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
- EAELIZABETH ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $22M · revenue +182% · 62% of their budget
- CCCROCKER CATALYST FOUNDATION FKA THE ONEIRIC FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $20M · revenue +142% · 100% of their budget
- TGTHOM & GAIL WILLIAMSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $4.6M · revenue ×1,150 · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- IHINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCAREone grant, 2017 · $750k
- MAMOUNTAINLAND APPLIED TECHNOLOGY COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · $555k
- BYBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-IDAHOone grant, 2018 · $500k
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.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
Our mission is to engage with communities and catalyze private, public, and philanthropic partnerships to remedy opportunity gaps in economic opportunity, education, health, and housing in Utah.
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's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
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…
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
The primary purpose of Trauma-Informed Utah is to respond to requests for education, resources and training around implementing a Trauma-Informed approach within their organization. The focus includes any and all sectors of society seeking…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Skyward Symphony. 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 23 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
505 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. 505 of the 763 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 ELIZABETH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CROCKER CATALYST FOUNDATION FKA THE ONEIRIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOM & GAIL WILLIAMSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JKS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH AND KATHLEEN SORENSON LEGACY FOUN ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds American Heritage Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds The Rachel Covey Foundation ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MOBILE SURGERY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds JOAN AND TIM FENTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ORRIN G HATCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Bill of Rights Institute ↗
- Who funds Kids on the Move Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MULLY CHILDRENS FAMILY USA INC ↗
- Who funds Academy for Creating Enterprise ↗
- Who funds Zahara Charity ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE 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: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ihc Health Services Inc · McCarthey Family Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · The Miner Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · Marriner S Eccles 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 Sorenson Legacy 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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