· Private foundation
The Ij and Jeanne Wagner Charitable Foundation
Its FY2026 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 · FY2026
- $10k–50k11 grants · $245k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000,000 |
| SJQ COL Wagner Scholarship Endowment | $350,000 |
| University of Utah | $250,000 |
| Hinckley Institute | $35,000 |
| SJQ COLLEGE OF LAW | $30,000 |
| Madeleine Choir School | $25,000 |
| Peel Therapeutics Inc | $25,000 |
| Snow College | $25,000 |
| SJ Quinney COL Scholarship Grant | $25,000 |
| University of Utah VSC | $25,000 |
| Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary | $20,000 |
| Scenic Utah | $15,000 |
| Utah Film Center | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +77% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK2× · 2017–2018 · $335k · revenue +93%
- SCSNOW COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +41%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY3× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- UMUtah Museum of Natrural Historyone grant, 2018 · $120k
- MFMaliheh Free Clinicgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +35%
- UTUTAH TIBETAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -45% · 100% of their budget
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.
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
The Utah Taxpayer's Association was founded as a nonprofit, nonpartisan voluntary organization of approxiamately 2,800 businesses, professionals and individuals who work together for more efficient and effective government. The…
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.
To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.
The Utah Chamber Artists (UCA) is a world renowned, not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 to provide audiences with an artistic force that provides a wide variety of music of the highest caliber, presented in the finest manner. UCA…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 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.
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.
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: The Community Foundation of Utah · Ihc Health Services Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ij and Jeanne Wagner Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ij and Jeanne Wagner Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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