· Private foundation
The Ashton Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $197k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE RISE & REBUILD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $8,000 |
| CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER | $8,000 |
| PRO-LIFE UTAH | $8,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY | $7,500 |
| THE FATHERS AND FAMILIES COALITION | $7,500 |
| WASATCH FORENSIC NURSES | $7,500 |
| STELLA H OAKS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES | $7,500 |
| MOUNTAINLANDS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENT | $7,500 |
| UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE | $7,500 |
| THE REFUGE UTAH | $7,500 |
| IVU MED | $7,000 |
| EMPOWER MALI | $7,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $408k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 24% 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 +60% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- MGMORE GOOD FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $935k · revenue +124%
- IHIHC HEALTH SERVICES INC3× · 2018–2020 · $172k · revenue +62%
- OCOREM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $150k · revenue +60% · 64% of their budget
Funded once
- TPTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $191k · revenue +313%
- UFUTAH FRIENDS OF AMAR INT'L CHARITYone grant, 2020 · $50k
- PCPRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER Fone grant, 2017 · $39k
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.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.
The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…
To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
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…
Hope worldwide utah was created to serve refugee populations around the world. we seek to serve those in acute need and to offer opporunities for volunteers to join us in humanitarian trips.
Our mission is to engage with communities and catalyze private, public, and philanthropic partnerships to remedy opportunity gaps in economic opportunity, education, health, and housing in Utah.
The mission of the fscu is to strengthen utah families one community at a time by supporting parents, protecting children, and preserving families. to accomplish this mission, each family support center provides its clients with a 24-hour…
Our Mission is to drastically minimize the generational impact of sexual violence through advocacy and healing by breaking the cycle of generational trauma through advocacy, awareness, and change.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Support Center and the most unlike its peers is Five 12 Foundation. 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 23 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 161 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 MORE GOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds IHC HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OREM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Rise and Rebuild Foundation ↗
- Who funds WASATCH FORENSIC NURSES INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The Center for Women and Children in Crisis ↗
- Who funds SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PRO-LIFE UTAH ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR SIGHT ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds CAMBODIA JOB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IVU MED ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINC ↗
- Who funds BOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ABILITY FOUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Mountainlands Community Health Center ↗
- Who funds Empower Mali ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗
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 · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · The Miner Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Utah Medical Association 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 The Ashton Family Foundation 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.
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