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The Ashton Family Foundation at a glance

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The Ashton Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$207k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MReligion$1.1MHealth$957kHuman Services$321kArts & Culture$219kInternational$213kPublic Benefit$161kFood & Nutrition$152kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k35 grants · $197k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$372k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RISE & REBUILD FOUNDATION$10,000
TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS$8,000
PRO-LIFE UTAH$8,000
CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER$8,000
WASATCH FORENSIC NURSES$7,500
MOUNTAINLANDS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENT$7,500
STELLA H OAKS FOUNDATION$7,500
THE REFUGE UTAH$7,500
THE FATHERS AND FAMILIES COALITION$7,500
SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES$7,500
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY$7,500
UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE$7,500
IVU MED$7,000
EMPOWER MALI$7,000
UTAH FOOD BANK$7,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%STAND WITH UKRAINE: $5k → 11%ONE HEART WORLDWIDE: $5k → 11%ONE HEART WORLDWIDE: $5k → 11%LITTLE LAMBS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS: $5k → 12%LITTLE LAMBS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS: $5k → 12%LITTLE LAMBS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS: $5k → 12%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $8k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $8k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $8k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $8k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $8k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $8k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $7k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $5k → 8%TABITHA'S WAY: $8k → 8%UTAH FOSTER CARE FOUNDATIONG: $5k → 8%BIG OCEAN WOMEN: $5k → 8%BIG OCEAN WOMEN: $5k → 8%BIG OCEAN WOMEN: $5k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $5k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $5k → 8%CAMBODIA JOB FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%CAMBODIA JOB FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%CAMBODIA JOB FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%THE RISE & REBUILD FOUNDATION: $12k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 8%THE RISE & REBUILD FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 8%THE RISE & REBUILD FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $5k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%THE RISE & REBUILD FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%PRO-LIFE UTAH: $10k → 8%PRO-LIFE UTAH: $10k → 8%PRO-LIFE UTAH: $8k → 8%PRO-LIFE UTAH: $8k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $8k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SLC: $5k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SLC: $5k → 8%INN BETWEEN: $6k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITY: $5k → 8%INN BETWEEN: $5k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SLC: $5k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $10k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $8k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $8k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
PA
CA
UT
CO
MD
AZ
DC
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 73 repeat orgs$664k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
82

Total granted

$4.2M
$637k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+39%

Still filing today

74%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • MG
    MORE GOOD FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $935k · revenue +124%
  • IH
    IHC HEALTH SERVICES INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $172k · revenue +62%
  • OC
    OREM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $150k · revenue +109% · 64% of their budget

Funded once

  • TP
    THANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $191k · revenue +313%
  • UF
    UTAH FRIENDS OF AMAR INT'L CHARITY
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • PC
    PRIMARY CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER F
    one grant, 2017 · $39k
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
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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2
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
3
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
4
Utah Valley Family Support Center Inc

Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.

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5
The Christmas Box International

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…

Community Improvement
6
Shelter Providers of Utah

To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.

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7
Trauma-Informed Utah

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…

Health
8
Hope Worldwide Utah

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.

International
9
The Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging

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.

Community Improvement
10
Utah Swat Inc
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11
Utah Association of Family Support Centers Inc

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…

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12
GenerationAll

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Support Center; 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.
04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 161 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/100
Grantees still filing
78/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $524,500 · OtherBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY: $385,000 · OtherUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITYUTAH VALLEY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $350,000 · OtherUTAH VALLEY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONTHIS IS THE PLACE HERITAGE FOUNDATI: $175,000 · OtherTHIS IS THE PLACE HERITAGE FOUNDATI+94 more: $993,396 · Other+94 moreMORE GOOD FOUNDATION: $935,000 · EducationMORE GOOD FOUNDATION+11 more: $63,000 · Education+11 moreIHC HEALTH SERVICES INC: $172,285 · HealthIHC HEALTH…WASATCH FORENSIC NURSES INC: $50,500 · HealthWASATCH FO…FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $46,600 · HealthFREE WHEEL…SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES: $37,500 · HealthSALT LAKE …The Center for Women and Children in Crisis: $37,500 · HealthThe Center…Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $33,000 · HealthRonald McD…HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $26,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN C…Mountainlands Community Health Center: $24,500 · Health+5 more: $34,500 · Health+5 moreCrossroads Urban Center: $59,500 · Human ServicesCrossroads…Rise and Rebuild Foundation: $52,000 · Human ServicesRise and R…UPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $40,500 · Human ServicesUPLIFT COM…PRO-LIFE UTAH: $36,000 · Human ServicesPRO-LIFE U…THE ROAD HOME: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD H…CAMBODIA JOB FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesCAMBODIA J…UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $30,000 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH…ABILITY FOUND CORPORATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesABILITY FO…THE INN BETWEEN: $23,600 · Human ServicesTHE INN BE…Little Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc: $20,500 · Human ServicesBIG OCEAN WOMEN: $15,000 · Human Services+11 more: $61,000 · Human Services+11 moreTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC: $190,719 · EnvironmentIVU MED: $29,500 · InternationalYOUTHLINC: $29,000 · InternationalBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD: $27,000 · InternationalEmpower Mali: $24,500 · InternationalWomen of the World: $15,000 · InternationalENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC: $15,000 · InternationalMentors International: $15,000 · InternationalAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $7,500 · InternationalWHOLIVES INC: $6,000 · International+4 more: $8,750 · InternationalOREM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $5,000 · Public Benefit
Other$2,427,896Education$998,000Health$462,385Human Services$428,100Environment$190,719International$177,250Public Benefit$155,000

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 budgetMORE GOOD FOUNDATION: $935,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC: $190,719 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIHC HEALTH SERVICES INC: $172,285 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOREM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $59,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $56,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRise and Rebuild Foundation: $52,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWASATCH FORENSIC NURSES INC: $50,500 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $49,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $46,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUPLIFT COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $40,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES: $37,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe Center for Women and Children in Crisis: $37,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPRO-LIFE UTAH: $36,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS FOR SIGHT: $34,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $33,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCAMBODIA JOB FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIVU MED: $29,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetYOUTHLINC: $29,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL: $27,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD: $27,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABILITY FOUND CORPORATION: $25,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetEmpower Mali: $24,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMountainlands Community Health Center: $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN: $23,600 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSTELLA H OAKS FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITYINC: $21,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetLittle Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc: $20,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE UTAH: $19,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN UTAH: $16,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetWomen of the World: $15,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBIG OCEAN WOMEN: $15,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetFight the New Drug Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMentors International: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER THE HOMELESS INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE: $11,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTABITHA'S WAY: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONE HEART WORLDWIDE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGARY & JEANETTE HERBERT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Women and Children in Crisis ↗
  • 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 CAMBODIA JOB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
  • 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 Empower Mali ↗
  • Who funds Mountainlands Community Health Center ↗
  • Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…George S and Dolores …Larry H Miller and Ga…The Community Foundat…The Miner FoundationKennecott Utah Copper…McCarthey Family Foun…Ihc Health Services I…C Scott & Dorothy E W…Dominion Energy Chari…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Utah Medical Associat…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT131.6× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Ashton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ashton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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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    How do I get to The Ashton Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Ashton 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 161 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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