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The Jacquelyn & Gregory Zehner Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.

Arts & Culture$857kEducation$548kReligion$460kPublic Benefit$220kHuman Services$174kPhilanthropy$162kYouth Development$152kHealth$116kCivil Rights$103kOther$1.0M
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $340k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$250,000
THE HARBOR FUND$90,000
PEOPLES HEALTH CLINIC$50,000
PEACE HOUSE INC$50,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$50,000
CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY$50,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC$35,000
YWCA$25,000
VOICES FOR UTAH CHILDREN$25,000
WOMEN OF THE WORLD$25,000
SCHWAB CHARITABLE$25,000
THE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY$25,000
CULTURE REFRAMED$25,000
EQUALITY UTAH FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 12%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $15k → 17%ACCESS CIRCLES: $2k → 9%ACCESS CIRCLES: $2k → 9%ACCESSCIRCLES: $1k → 9%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $10k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF UTA: $20k → 8%WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF UTA: $10k → 8%WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF UTA: $10k → 8%TAKE THE LEAD: $3k → 17%IMMIGRANT LEGAL SERVICES: $10k → 8%IMMIGRANT LEGAL SERVICES: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 38 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
28

Total granted

$2.3M
$777k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
-1%

Still filing today

66%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $526k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitHealthCivil RightsOther

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

  • Sundance Institute
    4× · 2021–2024 · $633k · revenue +24%
  • PC
    Park City Education Foundation
    4× · 2021–2024 · $95k · revenue +13%
  • PH
    People's Health Clicnic
    3× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • TU
    The University of British Columbia
    one grant, 2023 · $385k · revenue +8%
  • TP
    THE POLICY PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -7%
  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Utah Foundation

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.…

Public Benefit
2
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
3
Utah World Trade Center

World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.

Community Improvement
4
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
6
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

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7
Utah Leads

Utah Leads set out to understand what makes our information ecosystem in Utah unique, who is influencing policy formation in Utah, how that influence works in practice through multiple channels and across channels, and what policy…

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8
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

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9
Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc

Utah clean energy's mission is to lead the clean energy transformation with vision and expertise. our vision for the future is healthy, thriving communities for all, empowered and sustained by clean energy.

Environment
10
Aclu of Utah Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to preserve and promote individual civil rights and civil liberties as guaranteed by the united states and utah constitutions and the civil rights laws within the state of utah.

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11
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
12
Utah Water Ways Inc

Utah water ways promotes water conservation through collaboration between government, non-profit groups, and private sector partners and empowers the public to be wise stewards of this critical shared resource.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Utah Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Immigrant Legal Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLgbtq+ Community SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsCancer Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity Arts CentersAddiction Recovery ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%6%<5yr17%21%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr8%9%35–55yr12%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%13%<5yr17%7%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr15%43%20–35yr8%5%35–55yr12%7%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/63
the rest of the field
15%
1,823/12,340

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 86 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
31/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Sundance Institute — $632,600 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteHarbor Fund — $90,000 · Arts & CultureHarbor FundUTAH FILM CENTER — $60,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERUtah Museum of Contemporary Art — $31,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $42,500 · Arts & CultureFIDELITY CHARITABLE — $250,000 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLETHE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY — $55,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · OtherCULTURE REFRAMED INC — $135,000 · OtherCULTURE REFRAMED INCPeople's Health Clicnic — $75,000 · OtherPeople's Health ClicnicEQUALITY UTAH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherUtah Children — $50,000 · OtherEconomic Development Corp of Utah — $60,000 · Other+43 more — $655,509 · Other+43 moreThe University of British Columbia — $385,000 · EducationThe University o…Park City Education Foundation — $95,000 · EducationPark City Educat…BARNARD COLLEGE — $35,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGETHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $30,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF …+1 more — $2,500 · EducationCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY — $460,000 · ReligionCHRISTIAN CEN…THE POLICY PROJECT — $150,000 · Public BenefitON BEING PROJECT — $40,000 · Public BenefitLatin American Leadership Foundation Inc — $20,000 · Public BenefitUTAH MICROENTERPRISE LOAN FUND — $10,000 · Public BenefitPeace House Inc — $75,000 · Human ServicesWomen's Leadership Institute of Utah — $40,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesImmigrant Legal Services — $15,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $9,000 · Human ServicesIMPACTASSETSINC — $75,000 · PhilanthropyPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $31,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyThe Community Foundation of Utah — $10,500 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$856,600Other$1,380,509Education$547,500Religion$460,000Public Benefit$220,000Human Services$174,000Philanthropy$161,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSundance Institute — $632,600 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY — $460,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetThe University of British Columbia — $385,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POLICY PROJECT — $150,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCULTURE REFRAMED INC — $135,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetPark City Education Foundation — $95,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHarbor Fund — $90,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetPeople's Health Clicnic — $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeace House Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetEconomic Development Corp of Utah — $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEQUALITY UTAH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetUtah Children — $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomen of the World — $40,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetWomen's Leadership Institute of Utah — $40,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetON BEING PROJECT — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Other Side Academy — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art — $31,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $31,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetClean Slate Utah — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSAFFRON KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLatin American Leadership Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKEN GARFF FOR GOOD — $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetImmigrant Legal Services — $15,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah — $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKimball Art Center — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH MICROENTERPRISE LOAN FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUBIN PICTURES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEAM AFRICA RISING INC — $10,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY BONDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCONSERVE UTAH VALLEY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT SUCCESS COALITION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH COMMUNITY BUILDERS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetACCESSCIRCLES INC — $5,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Larry H Miller and Ga…George S and Dolores …Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…Ssir Cares IncPark City Community F…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Dominion Energy Chari…Promontory FoundationBallard Miller Founda…PROG Holdings Foundat…Kanter Family Foundat…
Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family FoundationUT33.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ssir Cares Inc · Park City Community Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Promontory Foundation · Ballard Miller Foundation · PROG Holdings Foundation Inc · Kanter Family Foundation

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 Jacquelyn & Gregory Zehner 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Center for Human Development Inc — 26% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 86 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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