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Spencer F and Cleone P Eccles Family Foundation at a glance

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Spencer F and Cleone P Eccles Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$927k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$5.9MRecreation & Sports$500kArts & Culture$393kPublic Benefit$253kHealth$210kHuman Services$117kPhilanthropy$106kReligion$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $183k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $446k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STAND TOGETHER FOUNDATION$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SPENCER F & CLEONE P ECCLES SUPPORT FUND$125,000
SAINT PETER FOR HUMANITY$100,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SKI TEAM$71,000
OGDEN PIONEER DAYS FOUNDATION$50,000
QUARLES FAMILY FOUNDATION$25,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$25,000
US SKI & SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION$20,000
APPLIED TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION DBA TECH CHARTIES$15,000
RON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH DAVID ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$12,500
UNIVERISTY OF UTAH SPENCER S ECCLES HEALTH SCIENCE LIBRARY$10,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL$10,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1k → 14%THE ROAD HOME: $20k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $20k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $11k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $1k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 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

ID
MN
NY
WY
OH
CA
UT
VA
DC
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Spencer F and Cleone P Eccles Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Spencer F and Cleone P Eccles Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 40 repeat orgs$822k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
26

Total granted

$5.4M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+38%

Still filing today

38%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $631k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UA
    UTAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2021 · $251k · revenue +137%
  • NH
    Neighborhood House Association
    8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +1%
  • US
    UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • RR
    RAPE RECOVERY CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +14%
  • BT
    BETA THETA PHI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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.

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Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Utah Sports Commission Foundation

The Utah Sports Commission Foundation is a charitable organization governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, and community leaders, and was created to foster national and international sports…

Recreation & Sports
5
University of Utah Foundation

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

Philanthropy
6
Utah Ski and Snowboard Association Inc

Promote growth in the use of winter sports facilities in Utah.

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7
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
9
Utah Sports Commission

The utah sports commission is governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, and community leaders, and was created to foster national and international sports competitions to be held in the state…

Community Improvement
10
Summit Land Conservancy

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

Environment
11
The Community Foundation of Utah

We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.

Philanthropy
12
Utah World Trade Center

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

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Saprea. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 81 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
22/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $4,063,221 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHSTANFORD UNIVERSITY BILL LANE CENTER FOR THE AMERICAN WEST: $225,000 · Other+52 more: $954,325 · Other+52 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,479,227 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES …+4 more: $37,100 · EducationUTAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $251,000 · Recreation & SportsUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $21,000 · Recreation & SportsSNOWBIRD SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATIO: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $5,400 · Recreation & SportsStand Together Foundation: $250,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $141,000 · HealthRAPE RECOVERY CENTER: $30,000 · Health+2 more: $6,000 · HealthOGDEN PIONEER DAYS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $46,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WEST: $23,000 · Arts & CultureUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureALF ENGEN SKI MUSEUM FOUNDATION IN: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $3,600 · Arts & CultureNeighborhood House Association: $90,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME: $42,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 · Human Services
Other$5,242,546Education$1,516,327Recreation & Sports$287,400Public Benefit$250,000Health$177,000Arts & Culture$142,600Human Services$139,000

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,479,227 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $251,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $141,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $90,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetOGDEN PIONEER DAYS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $46,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $42,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRAPE RECOVERY CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET WEST: $23,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAPPLIED TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSNOWBIRD SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATIO: $10,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALF ENGEN SKI MUSEUM FOUNDATION IN: $10,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOACH MIKE'S FRIENDS OF PUBLIC TENNIS: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOGDEN SURGICAL SOCIETY: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSaprea: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETA THETA PI FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALTA CLUB BUILDING FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetUTAH WETLANDS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetARTSPACE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Bill Memorial Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELDORADO COUNTRY CLUB: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALLEY CLUB: $400 over 2y, 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UTAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
  • Who funds OGDEN PIONEER DAYS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
  • Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds RAPE RECOVERY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
  • Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds APPLIED TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE ↗
  • Who funds RON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…George S and Dolores …Sorenson Legacy Found…Larry H Miller and Ga…Willard L Eccles Char…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Pacificorp Foundation…Jeffrey S & Helen H C…Marriner S Eccles Fou…David Kelby Johnson M…McCarthey Family Foun…Dominion Energy Chari…
The Community Foundation of UtahUT25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Utah · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Jeffrey S & Helen H Cardon Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable 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 Spencer F and Cleone P Eccles Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spencer F and Cleone P Eccles Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Spencer F and Cleone P Eccles Family 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 81 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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