How much does The George Family Foundation give?

The George Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $739,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The George Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Recreation & Sports (11%), Human Services (10%).

Who are The George Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Constitution Center ($2.0M), Northwestern University ($650k), Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence Region ($360k).

Does The George Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The George Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The George Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ssir Cares Inc, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.

Where is The George Family Foundation based?

The George Family Foundation is based in UT.

The George Family Foundation

The George Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The George 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.

$740k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$425k

Largest

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$2.0MRecreation & Sports$580kHuman Services$500kFood & Nutrition$445kYouth Development$365kHealth$310kReligion$297kEducation$292kOther$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k9 grants · $140k
$50k–250k2 grants · $170k
$250k+1 grant · $425k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$15M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER	$424,750
NORTH WESTERN UNIVERSITY KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT	$100,000
UTAH FOOD BANK	$70,000
ST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH	$45,000
HOLY CROSS MINISTRIES	$20,000
THE BOWERY MISSION	$15,000
PEACE HOUSE	$10,000
ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SALT LAKE CITY	$10,000
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAH	$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SUMMIT AND WASATCH COUNTIES	$10,000
US SKI AND SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION	$10,000
CATHEDRAL OF THE MADELEINE	$10,000
FRIENDS OF SKI MOUNTAIN MINING HISTORY	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.9M · 26 repeat orgs$316k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.9M

$291k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+3%

Still filing today

69%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

NC
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
8× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +173%
Northwestern University
8× · 2017–2025 · $650k · revenue +41%
CT
CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC
5× · 2017–2021 · $230k · revenue +202%

Funded once

AR
AMERICAN RED CROSS
one grant, 2022 · $50k
SB
St Brendan Catholic School
one grant, 2017 · $25k
MB
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Inc
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -10%

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Public Health Institute

Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.

Health

Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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The New School

The new school's mission is to prepare our students to understand, contribute to, and succeed in a rapidly changing society, and thus make the world a better and more just place. (continued on schedule o)

Education

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education

City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health

Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Cross Ministries of Utah; the most unlike its peers is Autozoner Assistance Fund Inc. 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

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 45 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/29

Grantees still filing

20/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$2,035,910Other$1,335,765Recreation & Sports$685,000Youth Development$365,000Human Services$340,000Food & Nutrition$250,000Health$165,000

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.

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.

Ssir Cares IncUT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ssir Cares Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 George Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home