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The Holmes Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$46k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$170k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations The Holmes Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Crime & LegalArts & CultureInternationalReligionCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$41k29%
FY20236$105k17%
FY20229$94k22%
FY20219$62k22%
FY202010$158k20%
FY20198$95k13%
FY20182$16k50%
FY201712$88kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$162kEducation$161kCivil Rights$101kCommunity Improvement$67kArts & Culture$49kHealth$40kCrime & Legal$37kInternational$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($283k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Holmes Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLibertas Network: $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Other Side Academy: $80,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $56,700 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSave the Storks: $40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWilford Woodruff Papers Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetCenter for Growth and Opportunity: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBarry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedia Research Center: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWomen to Women Foundation: $7,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetCrossroads of the West Council Inc Boy Scouts of America 590: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Youth Village: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBook of Mormon Central: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetState Policy Network: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSutherland Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Steven J & Patricia Andersen Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · University Impact · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Holmes Family Foundation

How much does The Holmes Family Foundation give?
The Holmes Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $46,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Holmes Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Education (24%), Civil Rights (15%).
Who are The Holmes Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Libertas Network ($100k), The Other Side Academy ($80k), Academy for Creating Enterprise ($57k).
Does The Holmes Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Holmes Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Holmes Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, The Community Foundation of Utah, Steven J & Patricia Andersen Foundation.
Where is The Holmes Family Foundation based?
The Holmes Family Foundation is based in UT.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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