· Private foundation
The Mark and Kathie Miller Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $543k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Utah's Promise | $250,000 |
| Nature Conservancy | $100,000 |
| United Way of Greater Salt lake | $100,000 |
| The Children's Center | $83,333 |
| American Cancer Society | $80,000 |
| University of Utah | $75,000 |
| Univesity of Utah Health Care Moran Eye Center | $55,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $50,000 |
| Huntsman Mental Health Foundation | $25,000 |
| Wasatch Adaptive Sports | $25,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake | $25,000 |
| Envision Utah | $20,000 |
| YWCA | $10,000 |
| Artspace | $10,000 |
| Friends of the Children - Utah | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH5× · 2020–2025 · $325k · revenue +113%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE3× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +6%
- AARTSPACE3× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- UPUTAH PARTNERS FOR HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +64%
- UMUtah Museum of Natural Historyone grant, 2020 · $30k
- DGDISCOVERY GATEWAY CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +56%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
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…
Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.
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.…
The organization's purpose is focused on improving and advancing health care in utah to be more affordable, with better health outcomes by accelerating, enabling and promoting healthcare innovation.
We unite people and organizations to build a healthy, stable, and well-educated community.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
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.
Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.
Provide housing to low-income families in provo, utah.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Town Club Preservation Foundation Inc. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 36 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE ↗
- Who funds UTAH PARTNERS FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE ↗
- Who funds ARTSPACE ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY GATEWAY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds UTAH GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Envision Utah ↗
- Who funds UTAH ROYAL KIDS ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service ↗
- Who funds THE INN BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds Wasatch Homeless Health Care ↗
- Who funds TOWN CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · American Express Foundation · Utah Medical Association Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc
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 Mark and Kathie Miller 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.
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.
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