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The Gardiner Adams 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS | $13,275 |
| JORDAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| INTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION | $652 |
| UTAH REFUGEE CONNECTION | $590 |
| Individual grant recipient | $542 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $400 |
| PBS UTAH | $330 |
| TO UKRAINE WITH LOVE | $300 |
| MILLCREEK CITY | $200 |
| COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICES | $128 |
| GRANITE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $102 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100 |
| CONSUMER REPORTS | $100 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE | $100 |
| KUER | $100 |
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 (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% 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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $828 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
- JEJordan Education Foundation2× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +48%
- URUTAH REFUGEE CONNECTION6× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +22%
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- TOThe Other Side Academyone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- U6UNION 6TH WARDone grant, 2023 · $800
- DRDEBT RELIEF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $538
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.
We improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our local community to provide resources and programs that focus on health, education, and income.
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
Serving refugees living in Salt Lake County who are unable to communicate in English and do not know how to navigate the system on-call 24-7 provided free a language interpreter and guidance through the system also help during weekday…
The objective of this organization is to help students and workers make better career, education and finance decisions. With the influx of Afghan refugees in the USA, there is a need for resettlement assistance as well as a unique position…
The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…
We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care
Utah valley refugee mission is to assist refugees in utah in their quest to become self reliant. the organization accomplishes its mission by providing employment & housing assistance, education grants, esl skills,and healthcare services.…
Our mission is to increase access to food across utah through advocacy, outreach, and education. utahns against hunger is utahs only state-wide anti-hunger non-profit organization working on public policy and advocacy for federal nutrition…
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.…
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Refugee Connection and the most unlike its peers is Bonneville Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 51 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 The Other Side Academy ↗
- Who funds Jordan Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds UTAH REFUGEE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds GRANITE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Shelter Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds RISE UP SCHOOL OF DANCE ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER REPORTS INC ↗
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 · The Community Foundation of Utah · Michel Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Semnani Family Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati
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 Gardiner Adams 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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