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The Jeps 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.

$92k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$164kHealth$136kYouth Development$75kEnvironment$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$53kRecreation & Sports$40kAnimals$38kArts & Culture$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$707k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA$7,500
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$7,500
SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES$5,000
RACE SWAMI$4,000
URANIUM WATCH LIVING RIVERS$4,000
YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT$4,000
WESTERN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY$3,500
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$3,000
CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER$2,500
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF UTAH$2,500
STONE OF HOPE YOUTH$2,500
GIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICA$2,500
ABILITY FOUNDATION$2,500
WASATCH ACADEMY$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER PROGRAM: $5k → 5%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%UTAH PET PARTNERS: $2k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $2k → 8%TURN COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER: $5k → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER: $5k → 8%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER: $5k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $2k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $2k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $2k → 8%SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $2k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $2k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $2k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $3k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $2k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$696k · 56 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
28

Total granted

$696k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+32%

Still filing today

55%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +140%
  • SL
    SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES
    6× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +73%
  • YG
    YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT
    7× · 2018–2025 · $26k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • HI
    HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +60%
  • DD
    DONATED DENTAL SERVICE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

1
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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2
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
3
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
4
Salt Lake Community Action Program

The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.

—
5
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
6
Utah Arts Alliance

To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.

Arts & Culture
7
Utah Domestic Violence Advisory Council

The organization's mission is to end domestic violence in utah through advocacy, education, collaboration, and leadership. the organization is the nationally recognized domestic violence coalition for the state of utah.

Crime & Legal
8
Kids Who Count

We empower families to optimize the developmental potential of their young children.

Education
9
Urban Peak Denver

Urban peak helps youth experiencing homelessness and youth at risk of becoming homeless overcome real life challenges by providing essential services and a supportive community, empowering them to become self-sufficient adults.

Housing & Shelter
10
Recreation and Habilitation Services (Rah)

Provides services and supports to individuals in Utah County who have intellectual disabilities.

—
11
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
Utah Community Action Partnership Association Inc

The organization's mission is to lead, strengthen, and support the community action network in order to build thriving communities and end poverty.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utahns Against Hunger; the most unlike its peers is Teens Act. 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

54 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. 54 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/54
Grantees still filing
43/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAWK WATCH: $52,500 · OtherHAWK WATCHYWCA: $50,000 · OtherYWCARACE SWAMI: $36,000 · OtherRACE SWAMIWESTERN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY: $29,000 · OtherWESTERN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCYTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $22,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $21,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE: $18,000 · Other+52 more: $193,500 · Other+52 moreCrossroads Urban Center: $22,000 · Human ServicesCrossroads Urban Cen…ABILITY FOUND CORPORATION: $21,000 · Human ServicesABILITY FOUND CORPOR…Adopt-A-Native Elder: $20,000 · Human ServicesAdopt-A-Native ElderTHE ROAD HOME: $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOMESENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR CHARITY CARE …Neighborhood House Association: $12,000 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House A…UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $9,500 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH VILLAGEPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $9,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE HELPING PEOPL…UTAH PET PARTNERS: $7,500 · Human Services+4 more: $8,000 · Human Services+4 moreRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $37,500 · HealthRonald McDonal…SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES: $30,000 · HealthSALT LAKE DONA…ALLIANCE HOUSE INC: $18,000 · HealthALLIANCE HOUSE…EYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah: $10,000 · HealthEYE CARE FOR K…UTAH PARTNERS FOR HEALTH: $5,000 · HealthStone of Hope Youth: $22,000 · Youth DevelopmentSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentArts-Kids Inc: $2,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MUNDI PROJECT: $21,000 · Arts & CultureON PITCH PERFORMING ARTS INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL FORENSIC LEAGUE D/B/A NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE ASSOC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureKEYS CORP: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureYOUTH GARDEN PROJECT: $25,500 · Crime & LegalKids on the Move Inc: $13,000 · EducationWASATCH ACADEMY: $2,500 · EducationLive Your Dream: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · Education
Other$422,500Human Services$141,000Health$100,500Youth Development$43,000Arts & Culture$29,000Crime & Legal$25,500Education$17,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $37,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRACE SWAMI: $36,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetSALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH GARDEN PROJECT: $25,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $22,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $22,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetStone of Hope Youth: $22,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetABILITY FOUND CORPORATION: $21,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUNDI PROJECT: $21,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetAdopt-A-Native Elder: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $18,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE HOUSE INC: $18,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetKids on the Move Inc: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $12,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSageland Collaborative: $10,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetARTSPACE: $9,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $9,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUTAH PET PARTNERS: $7,500 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetUTAH PARTNERS FOR HEALTH: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetON PITCH PERFORMING ARTS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL FORENSIC LEAGUE D/B/A NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE ASSOC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASATCH ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEENS ACT: $2,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArts-Kids Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEYS CORP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFUTURES THROUGH CHOICES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURN Community Services Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLive Your Dream: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRON MCBRIDE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAD DOG ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH VETERANS ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget1999 Collective: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LIVING PLANET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAHNS AGAINST HUNGER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
  • Who funds RACE SWAMI ↗
  • Who funds SALT LAKE DONATED DENTAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
  • Who funds Stone of Hope Youth ↗
  • Who funds ABILITY FOUND CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MUNDI PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder ↗
  • Who funds SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Kids on the Move Inc ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
  • Who funds EYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah ↗
  • Who funds Sageland Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds ARTSPACE ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH PET PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds UTAH PARTNERS FOR HEALTH ↗

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 Found…George S and Dolores …McCarthey Family Foun…Lawrence & Janet Dee …The Community Foundat…Kennecott Utah Copper…Dominion Energy Chari…Pacificorp Foundation…Larry H Miller and Ga…Herbert I & Elsa B Mi…Henry W & Leslie M Es…David Kelby Johnson M…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT69.5× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Association · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial 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 Jeps Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jeps Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Jeps Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Jeps Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 91 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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