· Private foundation
The Brent and Kathryn Wood 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $310k
- $250k+2 grants · $605k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS | $330,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE COALITION | $275,000 |
| UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $110,000 |
| SCENICVIEW ACADEMY INC | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC | $100,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY-HAWAII | $45,000 |
| EAGLES WINGS COORDINATED CARE | $25,000 |
| UTAH METROPOLITAN BALLET | $18,000 |
| BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UTAH REGIONAL HOUSING CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| CLIMBHI INC | $5,530 |
| YES EDUCATION | $2,000 |
| ACADEMY FOR CREATING ENTERPRISE | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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 +70% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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
- SAScenicView Academy5× · 2020–2024 · $325k · revenue +46%
- UVUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2024 · $280k · revenue +5%
- URUTAH REGIONAL HOUSING CORPORATION4× · 2021–2024 · $145k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN CRISIS INCORPORATone grant, 2023 · $30k
- TWTHE WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -23%
- KAKAHUKU ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
To provide services to disabled persons with a focus on assisting individuals in Utah County with cognitive disabilities gain skills to enable them to enter the workforce.
Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…
The promotion of low-income housing within the state of utah.
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.
To provide quality affordable housing opportunities to individuals and families living in Utah.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
To provide scholarships for Utah residents between the ages of 18 and 28 who have graduated from high school and are seeking additional educational opportunities.
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.
To provide charitable grants to Brigham Young University and other educational institutions and to provide educational assistance and scholarship grants.
To establish a school where each student gains the scholarly knowledge and skills vital to becoming a self-motivated, lifelong learner and to succeed in the rapidly evolving and complex world. This mission will be accomplished by using the…
Assisting persons with disabilities to develop independent living and social skills, assisting with housing and transportation needs, rights advocacy, and counseling.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Washington County School District Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Utah Metropolitan Ballet. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 FRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ScenicView Academy ↗
- Who funds UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH REGIONAL HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES WINGS COORDINATED CARE ↗
- Who funds Utah Metropolitan Ballet ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMBHI ↗
- Who funds Academy for Creating Enterprise ↗
- Who funds YES EDUCATION ↗
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: The Ashton Family Foundation · Wheelwright Family Charitable Foundation · The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · University Impact · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Brent and Kathryn Wood 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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