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Stephen G and Susan E Denkers Family Foundation at a glance

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Stephen G and Susan E Denkers Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$436k
Granted FY2022
35
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Health$219kEnvironment$132kHuman Services$130kArts & Culture$100kEducation$60kAnimals$35kFood & Nutrition$35kRecreation & Sports$33kOther$0
02FY2022 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k14 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $262k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Children's Center$60,000
Moran Eye Center$50,000
University of Utah Orthopedic Cente$25,000
YCC Family Crisis Center$25,000
Westminster College$25,000
Henry's Fork Foundation$22,000
Planned Parenthood$15,000
PBS$15,000
Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective$15,000
Salt Lake Community College$10,000
YMCA$10,000
Greater Yellowstone Coalition$10,000
Ogden School Foundation$10,000
Fourth Street Clinic$10,000
Tracy Aviary$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 (FY21–22, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YCC Family Crisis Center: $60k → 9%YCC Family Crisis Center: $25k → 9%Crossroads Urban Center: $10k → 8%Crossroads Urban Center: $10k → 8%Intermountain Therapy Animals: $5k → 8%Intermountain Therapy Animals: $5k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$491k · 20 repeat orgs$350k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
14

Total granted

$491k
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+26%

Still filing today

65%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
EnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureEducationHealthOther
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

  • YF
    YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $85k · revenue +14%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH
    2× · 2021–2022 · $65k · revenue +92%
  • HF
    HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $27k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • TF
    Trails Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • GO
    GREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTRgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +58%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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.

1
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
3
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

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.

Environment
4
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

—
5
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Utah World Trade Center

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

Community Improvement
7
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

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…

—
8
Utah Open Lands Conservation Association Inc

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…

Environment
9
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

—
10
Wasatch Wigeons Association

Improve utah's wetlands through hands-on conservation and community engagement

Animals
11
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
12
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Prospekt Mira. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $65,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAHMoran Eye Center: $50,000 · OtherMoran Eye CenterUniversity of Utah Orthopedic Cente: $45,000 · OtherUniversity of Utah Orthopedic CenteTrails Foundation: $30,000 · OtherTrails FoundationHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · OtherPBS: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $25,000 · OtherRite Care of Utah: $20,000 · OtherYMCA: $20,000 · OtherSALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $20,000 · OtherST ANNE'S CENTER: $20,000 · OtherWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $20,000 · Other+18 more: $153,200 · Other+18 moreYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $85,000 · Human ServicesYCC FAMILY CRIS…Crossroads Urban Center: $20,000 · Human ServicesCrossroads Urba…Intermountain Therapy Animals: $10,000 · Human ServicesIntermountain T…Summit Land Conservancy: $15,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake: $15,000 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $10,000 · EnvironmentUTAH WETLANDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentMADISON RIVER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $5,000 · EnvironmentUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $25,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $20,000 · AnimalsUTAH ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER: $5,000 · AnimalsWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCraft Lake City Corporation: $15,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSALT LAKE CITY BICYCLE COLLECTIVE: $25,000 · Employment
Other$520,200Human Services$115,000Environment$65,000Animals$50,000Education$40,000Arts & Culture$40,000Employment$25,000

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 budgetYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $85,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $65,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSALT LAKE CITY BICYCLE COLLECTIVE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetST ANNE'S CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetFRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake: $15,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCraft Lake City Corporation: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIntermountain Therapy Animals: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH WETLANDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetMADISON RIVER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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.

Willard L Eccles Char…Lawrence & Janet Dee …George S and Dolores …Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…Hemingway FoundationCross Charitable Foun…Palladium FoundationDavid Kelby Johnson M…Ihc Health Services I…Dominion Energy Chari…Castle Foundation Co …
Willard L Eccles Charitable FoundationUT49.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Hemingway Foundation · Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clark · Palladium Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillips

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 Stephen G and Susan E Denkers Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen G and Susan E Denkers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Stephen G and Susan E Denkers 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 49 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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