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The John a & Leah D Widtsoe Foundation Fka the John a Widtsoe Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to become the center for global mormon studies.

$11k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2018
67%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2024
$11,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$11,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$705k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 67% of the organizations The John a & Leah D Widtsoe Foundation Fka the John a Widtsoe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$11k100%
FY20183$8k67%
FY20171$35kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$600kReligion$54k

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Book of Mormon Central$37,87522%
The Interpreter Foundation$11,00011%
Chapman University$5,00010%
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints$1001n/a

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About The John a & Leah D Widtsoe Foundation Fka the John a Widtsoe Foundation

How much does The John a & Leah D Widtsoe Foundation Fka the John a Widtsoe Foundation give?
The John a & Leah D Widtsoe Foundation Fka the John a Widtsoe Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $11,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does The John a & Leah D Widtsoe Foundation Fka the John a Widtsoe Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (92%), Religion (8%).
Who are The John a & Leah D Widtsoe Foundation Fka the John a Widtsoe Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Book of Mormon Central ($38k), The Interpreter Foundation ($11k), Chapman University ($5k).
Does The John a & Leah D Widtsoe Foundation Fka the John a Widtsoe Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is The John a & Leah D Widtsoe Foundation Fka the John a Widtsoe Foundation based?
The John a & Leah D Widtsoe Foundation Fka the John a Widtsoe Foundation is based in CA.

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 5 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 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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