· Private foundation
Spencer Fane Utah Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of SPENCER FANE UTAH FOUNDATION INC’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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AND JUSTICE FOR ALL | $6,000 |
| KUED 7 (PBS UTAH) | $4,000 |
| SNOW COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| UTAH CENTER FOR LEGAL INCLUSION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| KUER | $2,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| J REUBEN CLARK LAW SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH LAW SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| UTAH OPEN LANDS | $1,000 |
| CHRISTMAS BOX HOUSE | $1,000 |
| TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,000 |
| UTAH SYMPHONYOPERA CO | $1,000 |
| BALLET WEST | $1,000 |
| ODYSSEY HOUSE | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- AJAND JUSTICE FOR ALL4× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +199%
- SCSNOW COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +41%
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- RMRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue 0%
- DEDAVIS EDUCATION TEEN CENTERSone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
USARA's mission is to connect and inspire communities to advocate for addiction recovery. We envision a Utah where recovery community and connection are recognized as the most valuable assets for people to recover from addiction.
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…
The Utah Genealogical Association provides genealogical information, courses and education through personal instruction and published media on state, national and international family history topics, while promoting high standards and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Center Utah and the most unlike its peers is Fullmer Legacy Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 63 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 AND JUSTICE FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds SNOW COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds SNOWBIRD SPORTS EDUCATION FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds UTAH INFERTILITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds UTAH CENTER FOR LEGAL INCLUSION ↗
- Who funds ABILITY FOUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Utah Foster Care Foundation 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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Archer Family Charitable Corp · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Utah Medical Association Foundation · The Ashton Family 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 Spencer Fane Utah Foundation Inc 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.
- Postpartum Support International — 43% of income from government
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.