Utah · Private foundation
Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $64k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 64%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 64% of the organizations Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 9 | $64k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $241k | 64% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $205k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $160k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $95k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $410k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Courage Reins | $425,000 | 7 | 19% |
| American Heritage Schools Inc | $68,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Our Rescue | $66,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Five 12 Foundation | $36,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Fur Sisters Furever Urs Rescue Inc | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Center for Women and Children in Crisis | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Road Home | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tri-Cities Chaplaincy | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beaches Go Green Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($492k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Ashton Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · University Impact · doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · The Miner Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Derek and Shelaine Maxfield Family Found · Neal and Sherrie Savage Family Foundation · Wheelwright Family Charitable Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation with peer funders
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About Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation
- How much does Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation give?
- Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $63,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (34%), Recreation & Sports (31%), Education (9%).
- Who are Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Courage Reins ($425k), American Heritage Schools Inc ($68k), Our Rescue ($66k).
- Does Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 64% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ashton Family Foundation, Sorenson Legacy Foundation, The Community Foundation of Utah.
- Where is Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation based?
- Sterling & Shelli Gardner Foundation is based in UT.
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