· Private foundation
The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of THE DENNIS AND JOAN NORTON 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| UVU FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,796 |
| MOYLE PARK LDS WARD | $11,800 |
| SLCC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MIDAS CREEK LDS 6TH WARD | $7,200 |
| CARBON HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JORDAN RIVER LDS WARD | $5,000 |
| DAVIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HEFY-HUMANITARIAN EXPERIENCE FOR YO | $4,890 |
| MTN RIDGE JUNIOR HIGH | $3,200 |
| LDS PHILANTHROPIES | $2,700 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EQUESTRIAN SPOR | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,300 |
| JORDAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $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 (FY18–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 63% 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 +73% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- SCSNOW COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +41%
- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN UTAH8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +146%
- HEHumanitarian Experience Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $18k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRISTone grant, 2022 · $50k
- BUBYU UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $20k
- UCUTAH COUNTY NORTH VALLEY EQUESTIANone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Our mission is to fund and support educator-powered initiatives that inspire all Park City students to reach their academic and lifelong potential.
The mission of the Weber School Foundation is to raise and provide funds to enhance educational goals and opportunities for students.
Canyons School District Education Foundation works in tandem with community and business partners to build support for public schools and to advance Canyons School Districts mission to help every student become college- and career-ready…
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.
Provide academic growth to students of San Juan County Utah School District by promoting, sponsoring and carrying out educational, scientific, charitable and related activities and objectives with the San Juan County School District.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Type of Wood Charities. 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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 103 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 SNOW COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHERN UTAH ↗
- Who funds Humanitarian Experience Inc ↗
- Who funds Jordan Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Type of Wood Charities ↗
- Who funds BOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Davis Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds HALE CENTER FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE FAIRFAX ↗
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 Community Foundation of Utah · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · University Impact · Beesley Family Foundation · The Miner Foundation · R & B Patterson Memorial Fdn Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Friend to Friend Inc · The Pi Foundation Inc · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation
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 Dennis and Joan Norton 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.
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.