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The Dell Loy Hansen Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$35M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$34M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

International$40MHuman Services$7.6MCommunity Improvement$758kEducation$513kEnvironment$500kArts & Culture$407kCrime & Legal$150kHousing & Shelter$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $745k
  • $250k+3 grants · $34M
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUM Foundation$33,522,035
Lifting Lives$350,000
Loveland Living Planet Aquarium$250,000
CAPSA$220,000
Weber State University$100,000
Cain College of the Arts$100,000
Dell Loy and Julie Hansen Scholars Foundation$90,000
MarketStar Foundation$75,000
Wasatch CAPSA Support Foundation$60,000
Operation Kids Foundation$50,000
Creative Visions for Giants of the Nile$50,000
Bridle Up Hope$45,000
Cache Education Foundation$20,000
Amethyst Center for Healing$20,000
North Logan City$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Hope Street Group: $6.0M → 14%Hope Street Group: $5k → 14%Little Lambs Foundation for Kids: $5k → 12%Little Lambs Foundation for Kids: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
OR
NJ
CA
UT
DC
HI
GA
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 79% of The Dell Loy Hansen 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.

The Dell Loy Hansen Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 79% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$48M · 15 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
20

Total granted

$48M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+40%

Still filing today

87%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $773k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationInternationalOther

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

  • SH
    SO HUM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $39M · revenue +182%
  • HS
    Hope Street Group
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6.0M · revenue +195%
  • TL
    THE LIVING PLANET INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • SW
    STAND WITH UKRAINE
    one grant, 2023 · $710k
  • WV
    West Valley City
    2× · 2021–2022 · $500k
  • VA
    VISUAL ART INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
4
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
5
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
6
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
7
Lightspark Foundation
Civil Rights
8
House of Hope

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

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9
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Utah Public Health Association

The Utah Public Health Association (UPHA) is a statewide membership organization dedicated to improving the health of Utah communities by supporting and representing the public health workforce. UPHA advances public health through…

Health
11
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
12
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Futures and the most unlike its peers is So Hum 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDonor-Advised Charitable Fu…Community Performing Arts O…Member-Based Social ClubsHealth, Education & Support…School District Education F…Diverse Utah Community Serv…Trauma & Abuse Support Serv…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 21 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%7%<5yr16%15%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr10%7%35–55yr12%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr16%82%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr10%1%35–55yr12%0%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
16%
9,146/58,130

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.

05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SO HUM FOUNDATION — $38,857,874 · InternationalSO HUM FOUNDATION+1 more — $350,000 · InternationalHope Street Group — $5,962,230 · Human ServicesHope Street Grou…CITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE — $1,244,440 · Human ServicesCITIZENS AGAINST…+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesWest Valley City — $500,000 · OtherTHE LIVING PLANET INC — $500,000 · OtherMarketStar Foundation — $225,000 · OtherVISUAL ART INSTITUTE — $200,000 · OtherTo Ukraine with Love — $105,000 · OtherCain College of the Arts — $100,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherBirds for Sofia Foundation — $100,000 · OtherDell Loy and Julie Hansen Scholars Foundation — $90,000 · OtherPROJECT UNITE INC — $100,000 · Other+16 more — $453,500 · OtherSTAND WITH UKRAINE — $710,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FESTIVAL CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA — $140,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $17,000 · Arts & CultureOK Foundation — $300,000 · PhilanthropyWasatch CAPSA Support Foundation — $60,000 · PhilanthropyCharityVision International — $52,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,546 · PhilanthropyFight Against Domestic Violence — $150,000 · Crime & LegalThe Rachel Covey Foundation — $65,000 · HealthAMETHYST CENTER FOR HEALING — $64,420 · HealthYOUTH FUTURES — $8,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 · Health
International$39,207,874Human Services$7,216,670Other$2,473,500Arts & Culture$867,000Philanthropy$414,046Crime & Legal$150,000Health$142,420

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHope Street Group — $5,962,230 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST PHYSICAL AND SEXUAL ABUSE — $1,244,440 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE LIVING PLANET INC — $500,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLIFTING LIVES — $350,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetOK Foundation — $300,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetVISUAL ART INSTITUTE — $200,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFight Against Domestic Violence — $150,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN FESTIVAL CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA — $140,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetPROJECT UNITE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetDell Loy and Julie Hansen Scholars Foundation — $90,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetThe Rachel Covey Foundation — $65,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetAMETHYST CENTER FOR HEALING — $64,420 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetWasatch CAPSA Support Foundation — $60,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetCharityVision International — $52,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCACHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanyons School District Education Foundation — $12,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSPORTSMEN FOR FISH & WILDLIFE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc — $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH FUTURES — $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCACHE CHILDRENS CHOIR — $6,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH NONPROFITS ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah — $1,546 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…George S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…Ihc Health Services I…Larry H Miller and Ga…Joan and Tim Fenton F…Beesley Family Founda…The Kahlert Foundatio…Pacificorp Foundation…Community Trust of Ut…University ImpactDaniels Fund
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT29.8× affinity12 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 · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ihc Health Services Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Community Trust of Utah · University Impact · Daniels Fund

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 Dell Loy Hansen 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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