· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| KUER | $100 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE | $100 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER INSTITUTE | $100 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gardiner Adams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gardiner Adams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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