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The Benjamin Foundation Dba Garbett Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of THE BENJAMIN FOUNDATION DBA GARBETT FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION ESCALERA | $600,000 |
| O2 UTAH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| WILDERNESS WORKSHOP | $50,000 |
| WONDERBLOOM | $42,000 |
| SEVEN CANYONS TRUST | $20,000 |
| SALT LAKE CHORAL ARTISTS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FIGHT AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $10,000 |
| BYU HAWAII LDS PHILANTHROPIES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN | $5,000 |
| UTAH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CANINES WITH A CAUSE | $1,000 |
| THE SINGLE PARENT PROJECT | $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 (FY17–24, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +52% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
- FEFOUNDATION ESCALERA INC3× · 2019–2024 · $661k · revenue +69% · 53% of their budget
- WWWILDERNESS WORKSHOP4× · 2021–2024 · $185k · revenue +37%
- WCWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS4× · 2017–2021 · $104k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- EDEPIK DELIBERATE DIGITALone grant, 2023 · $70k
- STSHELTER THE HOMELESS INCone grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue -31%
- BWBALLET WESTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +88%
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 dedicated to empowering the Latino community in Utah to recognize and achieve their own potential and become a positive force for change in the larger community.
The objective of this organization is to help students and workers make better career, education and finance decisions. With the influx of Afghan refugees in the USA, there is a need for resettlement assistance as well as a unique position…
To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Aspen Magdalene House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 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) — 0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 52 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 FOUNDATION ESCALERA INC ↗
- Who funds O2 UTAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Salt Lake Choral Artists ↗
- Who funds SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN SUDAN HUMANITARIAN ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS UTAH A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wonderbloom ↗
- Who funds Fight Against Domestic Violence ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds SEVEN CANYONS TRUST ↗
- Who funds Academy for Creating Enterprise ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Centro Hispano ↗
- Who funds American Indian Services ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO TURKIYE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Empower Mali ↗
- Who funds ASPEN MAGDALENE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AID ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN ↗
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 · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc
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 Benjamin Foundation Dba Garbett 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.
- Media Literacy Now — 12% of income from government
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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