How much did THE FIELD FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 99% of THE FIELD FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

deafdance

2022

dancedeaf

2023

schwab daf

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k12 grants · $22k
$50k–250k1 grant · $229k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

SCHWAB CHARITABLE DAF$229,373
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SOCIAL WORK$5,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$3,500
CONGREGATION KOL AMI$2,940
CHAVURAH B'YACHAD$2,500
UTAH SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND$1,000
RIRIE WOODBURY DANCE COMPANY$1,000
FRIENDS OF SPRINGBOARD DANSE$500
WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS$200
MURRAY SENIOR CENTER$200
SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH$100
SCHWAB CHARITABLE DAF$60

02The need

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 (FY22–22, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$359k · 17 repeat orgs$244k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$359k

$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%

+95%

Still filing today

29%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

UJ
UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH
3× · 2018–2022 · $6k · revenue +356%
JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue +219%
RD
REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE
2× · 2021–2022 · $800 · revenue +27%

Funded once

JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
one grant, 2018 · $2k
WS
WORKFORCE SERVICES REHABILITATION
one grant, 2017 · $500
MS
MCGILLIS SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +129%

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.

Utah Public Lands Alliance

Education

Utah Geological Foundation

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The Utah Nordic Alliance

Education and charitable purposes of promoting the sport of cross-country skiing and racing in utah through youth and adult education, coaching, facilitation, information, volunteer work and recreational and competitive events. the…

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Utah Athletic Foundation

Foster development of winter sports in utah and manage and maintain the utah olympic park, utah olympic oval and soldier hollow nordic center

Recreation & Sports

Utah High School Cycling League

To enable every utah teen to strengthen body, mind, and character through the lifelong sport of cycling.

Recreation & Sports

Utah Festival Opera Company

Elevating lives through ennobling artistic experiences by creating a nurturing environment that ensures performance excellence, creative experiences, and educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture

Utah Open Lands Conservation Association Inc

Preservation, protection and stewardship of open space, in perpetuity, in order to maintain Utah's natural heritage and quality of life for present and future generations.

Environment

Utah Symphony & Opera

Connect the community through great live music. To perform. To engage. To inspire. We do this by serving the people of our state and beyond as the region's premier provider of orchestral and operatic music. Our orchestral performances span…

Arts & Culture

Utah Foundation

Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…

Public Benefit

Utah Zoological Society

Utah's Hogle Zoo inspires wildlife champions and connects our community to animals, promoting conservation locally and globally.

Animals

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art

The utah museum of contemporary art believes in the power of the art of our time. through programming, advocacy, and collaboration, we work with artists and communities to build a better world.

Arts & Culture

Utah Heritage Foundation

The organization's mission is to keep the past alive, not only for preservation, but to inspire and provoke a more creative present and sustainable future.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Utah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Muscular Dystrophy Association. 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 48 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1/24

the rest of the field

12%

944/7,740

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

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/19

Grantees still filing

14/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$594,747Philanthropy$5,600Arts & Culture$900Education$500Recreation & Sports$500Environment$400Health$250

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of UtahUT17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Utah · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · American Express Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation THE FIELD 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

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: USA DEAF SPORTS FEDERATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 526044700 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on USA DEAF SPORTS FEDERATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Field Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Field Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE FIELD FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Field Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE FIELD FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Field Foundation?

More from the funding graph