· Private foundation
The Lightweaver 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION | $65,249 |
| OPERATION LITERACY | $18,704 |
| THE LEAGUE OF UTAH WRITERS | $10,000 |
| COURAGE REINS | $6,781 |
| HARRINGTON CENTER | $5,665 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,050 |
| REACH OUT UTAH | $5,000 |
| SCENIC VIEW ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| DYSLEXIA CENTER OF UTAH | $2,540 |
| INTRODUCING TOMORROW | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF UTAH | $1,915 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $1,880 |
| BRANDON DEWITT FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BIG WORLD NETWORK | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +86% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CRCourage Reins6× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +86%
- OLOperation Literacy2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +492%
- TRTHE ROAD HOME3× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- VDVarious Donationsone grant, 2018 · $17k
- LHLifting Hands Internationalone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -23%
- OFOUT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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…
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Building bright futures through literacy, digital skills, math, and conversation.
Provide loving home environment, continuity of care, and empowerment of displaced and fragile children.
We inspire and transform students with learning differences into confident, independent, and successful readers. We collaborate with colleagues and members of the community for the welfare and value of our diverse learners.
To provide educaitonal services to students in the Salt Lake County area as a public charter school, to support education initiatives, and to help prepare students to be successful in life by developing healthy lifestyle habits abd by…
Provide housing to low-income families in provo, utah.
Big brothers big sisters of utah's vision is that all children achieve success in life. our mission is to create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Assisting persons with disabilities to develop independent living and social skills, assisting with housing and transportation needs, rights advocacy, and counseling.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
Ronald McDonald House Mountain West surrounds families with the support they need to be near and care for their seriously ill or injured children.
Book harvest provides books to children who need them and engages families and communities to promote children's lifelong literacy and academic success.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 103 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.
- Who funds Courage Reins ↗
- Who funds WORLDBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Literacy ↗
- Who funds League of Utah Writers ↗
- Who funds Lifting Hands International ↗
- Who funds Utah Pride Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ScenicView Academy ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Generations Humanitarian ↗
- Who funds BRANDON DEWITT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MY STORY MATTERS ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · The Miner Foundation · Bill and Pat Child Family Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lightweaver Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lightweaver Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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