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The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation at a glance

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The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$378k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.4MEducation$358kYouth Development$271kInternational$240kHealth$120kHuman Services$104kFood & Nutrition$98kCrime & Legal$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $253k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTAH FILM CENTER$102,500
ROWLAND HALL$100,000
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM$50,000
HUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
SOUTHERN UTAH MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$25,000
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF UTAH$10,000
UTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ART$10,000
SUN VALLEY WRITES' CONFERENCE$8,000
OGDEN CONTEMPORARY ARTS$5,000
INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER$5,000
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS$5,000
TORREY HOUSE PRESS$5,000
PLAN-B THEATRE$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%ENCIRCLE: $10k → 8%LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%ENCIRCLE: $10k → 8%LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%ENCIRCLE: $1k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $10k → 8%NO POOR AFRICA: $50k → 8%NO POOR AFRICA: $30k → 8%NO POOR AFRICA: $20k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
NY
NJ
CA
UT
VA
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 41 repeat orgs$504k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
25

Total granted

$4.2M
$371k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+56%

Still filing today

63%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationReligionHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UM
    Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +103%
  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $386k · revenue +128%
  • LI
    LATINOS IN ACTION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $185k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MCGILLIS SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +61%
  • SU
    SOUTHERN UTAH MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • RM
    Rocky Mountain Innocence Centergraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +94%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Utah Arts Academy

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'…

Education
3
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Utah Geological Foundation
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5
Utah World Trade Center

World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.

Community Improvement
6
Utah Arts Alliance

To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.

Arts & Culture
7
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

—
8
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

—
9
Utah Leads

Utah Leads set out to understand what makes our information ecosystem in Utah unique, who is influencing policy formation in Utah, how that influence works in practice through multiple channels and across channels, and what policy…

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10
Art Access

The mission of Art Access is to build a diverse and inclusive arts community in Utah through creative opportunities for people with disabilities, and other marginalized communities, and through public engagement with the arts.

Arts & Culture
11
Salt Lake Arts Academy

To prepare students to become confident and creative builders of their future, equipped through the arts and academics to take responsibility for shaping their communities.

Education
12
Utah Valley Arts

Support various performing arts in utah.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
29/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art: $1,067,500 · Arts & CultureUtah Museum of Contemporary ArtUTAH FILM CENTER: $385,500 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERCenter for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc: $125,000 · Arts & CultureCenter for Latter-Day Saint Arts IncUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $90,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WEST: $87,500 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $80,160 · Arts & CultureUtah Cultural Alliance Foundation: $72,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $83,195 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $409,938 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM: $200,000 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMMORMON ARTS CENTER: $150,000 · OtherMORMON ARTS CENTERSOUTHERN UTAH MUSEUM OF ART: $135,000 · OtherSOUTHERN UTAH MUSEUM OF ARTNO POOR AMONG US: $120,000 · OtherNO POOR AMONG USSOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherSOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITYUTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ART: $95,000 · OtherGRANARY ARTS: $80,000 · OtherNORA ECCLES HARRISON MUSEUM OF ART: $75,000 · Other+30 more: $494,621 · Other+30 moreLATINOS IN ACTION INC: $185,000 · EducationLATINOS I…THE MCGILLIS SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationTHE MCGIL…ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationROWLAND H…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationNo Poor Africa: $100,120 · Human ServicesEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $21,000 · Human ServicesLOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $10,000 · Human ServicesWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $90,000 · Community ImprovementHELPER PROJECT: $10,000 · Community ImprovementRocky Mountain Innocence Center: $50,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY UTAH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Civil RightsBetter Utah Institute: $7,500 · Civil RightsEQUALITY UTAH: $4,500 · Civil RightsHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthWasatch Homeless Health Care: $7,500 · Health
Arts & Culture$2,081,355Other$1,859,559Education$395,000Human Services$151,120Community Improvement$100,000Civil Rights$72,000Health$57,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $1,067,500 over 8y, 24% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $385,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetLATINOS IN ACTION INC: $185,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCenter for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetNo Poor Africa: $100,120 over 3y, 19% of budgetTHE MCGILLIS SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $90,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC: $90,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetBALLET WEST: $87,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $80,160 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUtah Cultural Alliance Foundation: $72,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Innocence Center: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTORREY HOUSE PRESS: $47,500 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah: $47,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF HISTORIC SPRING CITY: $40,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $36,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen of the World: $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetSundance Institute: $13,195 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKimball Art Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEQUALITY UTAH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHELPER PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetBetter Utah Institute: $7,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN-B THEATRE COMPANY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE: $7,121 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUALITY UTAH: $4,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSALT LAKE ARTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH PIONEER HERITAGE ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Utah Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LATINOS IN ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds Center for Latter-Day Saint Arts Inc ↗
  • Who funds NO POOR AMONG US ↗
  • Who funds No Poor Africa ↗
  • Who funds THE MCGILLIS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCULPTURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
  • Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Utah Cultural Alliance Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE ↗
  • Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rocky Mountain Innocence Center ↗
  • Who funds TORREY HOUSE PRESS ↗
  • Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HISTORIC SPRING CITY ↗
  • Who funds SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds HUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds LOVE YOUR BRAIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Women of the World ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RELIGION JOURNALISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Sundance Institute ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Lawrence & Janet Dee …George S and Dolores …Sorenson Legacy Found…Kanter Family Foundat…Marriner S Eccles Fou…McCarthey Family Foun…Larry H Miller and Ga…Hemingway FoundationPark City Community F…Dominion Energy Chari…Willard L Eccles Char…
The Community Foundation of UtahUT41.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Utah · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Kanter Family Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · Park City Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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