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The Call 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $457k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEEDING AMERICA | $1,000,000 |
| PREVENT CHILD ABUSE | $155,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $151,412 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH | $110,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY | $105,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-UTAH | $105,000 |
| YWCA UTAH | $102,975 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $100,000 |
| DAVIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UTAH'S PROMISE | $100,000 |
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $100,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SALT LAKE VALLEY | $100,000 |
| UTAH CLEAN AIR PARTNERSHIP INC | $100,000 |
| WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY | $96,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $95,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $484k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 80% of The Call Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in UT; read by stated purpose it is 14% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 23 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $573k 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
Feeding America4× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +40%- YWYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah4× · 2021–2024 · $875k · revenue +7%
- IHINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2022 · $603k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TUTHE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue -80% · 47% of their budget
- AFALES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $900k · revenue -62%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVMENT UTAH INCone grant, 2019 · $500k
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.
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
United way of salt lake (uwsl) mobilizes people and resources to support basic needs and education.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.
Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.
Utah water ways promotes water conservation through collaboration between government, non-profit groups, and private sector partners and empowers the public to be wise stewards of this critical shared resource.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Children and the most unlike its peers is Wadman 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 24 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 141 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 Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds ALES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Davis Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UTAH CLEAN AIR PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH ↗
- Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds English Skills Learning Center ↗
- Who funds UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE UTAH HEALTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE ↗
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: Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Utah's Promise · Intermountain Community Care Foundation 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 Call 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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