Utah · 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.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Tanner Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $2.0M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $2.1M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $1.5M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $1.7M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $1.5M | 57% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $1.6M | 69% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $1.8M | 27% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $1.7M | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah Symphony & Opera | $5,672,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Utah State University | $1,555,000 | 7 | n/a |
| University of Utah | $1,400,893 | 6 | n/a |
| Shelter the Homeless Inc | $1,000,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Utah Valley University | $750,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Ken Garff for Good | $725,000 | 8 | 4% |
| The Children's Center Utah | $630,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Zion Canyon Mesa | $400,000 | 1 | 67% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $205,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tanner Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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: 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
How this is measured
About Tanner Charitable Trust
- How much does Tanner Charitable Trust give?
- Tanner Charitable Trust reported 11 grants totaling $2,091,280 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Tanner Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (36%), Housing & Shelter (6%).
- Who are Tanner Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Utah Symphony & Opera ($5.7M), Utah State University ($1.6M), University of Utah ($1.4M).
- Does Tanner Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tanner Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tanner Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, The Community Foundation of Utah.
- Where is Tanner Charitable Trust based?
- Tanner Charitable Trust is based in UT.
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