· Private foundation
Tanner Charitable Trust
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $556k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UTAH SYMPHONY AND OPERA | $1,500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $226,693 |
| SUCCESS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES | $104,587 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF UTAH | $100,000 |
| GIFTED MUSIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NORTHSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CENTER | $5,000 |
| SOUTH VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVEL | $5,000 |
| UTAH COALITION AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY | $5,000 |
| SOMOS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 10% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- USUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA9× · 2017–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +18%
- KGKEN GARFF FOR GOOD8× · 2018–2025 · $725k · revenue +192%
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $500k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- ZCZION CANYON MESAone grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue -69% · 67% of their budget
- UCUtah Cultural Alliance Foundationone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -69%
- SUSOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $125k
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.
We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.
The Utah Chamber Artists (UCA) is a world renowned, not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 to provide audiences with an artistic force that provides a wide variety of music of the highest caliber, presented in the finest manner. UCA…
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art believes in the power of the art of our time. Through programming, advocacy, and collaboration, we work with artists and communities to build a better world.
Opera Education and Performance
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 foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salt Lake Music School Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Onerefugee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 79 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 UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds KEN GARFF FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds ZION CANYON MESA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Utah Cultural Alliance Foundation ↗
- Who funds Onerefugee ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds UPWARDLY GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds SALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Leonardo ↗
- Who funds REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds Golden Spike Foundation ↗
- Who funds STAND4KIND ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOVA CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES ↗
- Who funds 90 & 9 ↗
- Who funds Kids on the Move Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH COALITION AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY ↗
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 · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Joseph and Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foun · Wcf 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 Tanner Charitable Trust 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.