· Private foundation
The May Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF GRAND COUNTY CHILDRENS JUSTICE CENTER | $10,000 |
| MOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC | $7,500 |
| MOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER | $6,500 |
| SEEKHAVEN INC | $5,000 |
| WABISABI INC | $5,000 |
| GRAND COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| WELLNESS COLLECTIVE | $3,000 |
| MOAB SOLUTIONS INC | $3,000 |
| CAN D AID | $2,500 |
| MOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC | $2,500 |
| MOAB COMMUNITY CHILDCARE | $2,500 |
| SKY MIND RETREATS | $2,000 |
| YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT | $1,500 |
| MOAB WOMENS FESTIVAL | $1,500 |
| GRAND COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +118% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- MVMOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +164%
- MFMOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC8× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +255%
- WIWABISABI INC7× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CVCASTLE VALLEY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $50k
- GCGRAND COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -51% · 30% of their budget
- AMActive Minds Incone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -19%
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.
Provide mental health services to residents of Cache, Rich, and Box Elder Counties in Utah.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
Mountain High Recovery Center is a substance use treatment facility whose mission is to provide local, quality, and affordable recovery services to individuals and families in the South Lake Tahoe, CA community.
Mutual aid partners is a network that supports and connects grassroots efforts in mesa county colorado, by facilitating communication, education, boosting collaboration and accessibility to resources & volunteers.
To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…
As stewards of the land, our village community center cultivates togetherness and life-long learning for all ages.
Natural resource protection: Protected communities and the environment from the negative impacts of mineral development; provided support to communities impacted by mining
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moab Valley Healthcare Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Grand County Childrens Justice Center. 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 19 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 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 MOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WABISABI INC ↗
- Who funds SEEKHAVEN FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GRAND COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVING RIVERS ↗
- Who funds Moab Solutions Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GRAND COUNTY CHILDRENS JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOAB COMMUNITY CHILDCARE ↗
- Who funds CANYONLANDS FIELD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds SKY MIND RETREATS ↗
- Who funds MOAB HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPICENTER ↗
- Who funds Colorado Healing Fund ↗
- Who funds Transitions Inc ↗
- Who funds MOAB VALLEY HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds MOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Can'd Aid ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Cal-Wood Education Center ↗
- Who funds GROWING GARDENS OF BOULDER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST UTAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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: Alpenglow Foundation · Val a Browning Charitable Foundation · Palladium Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Ruth Brown Foundation · The Colin D Fryer Foundation · The Carl George Bjorkman Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Janet Q Lawson 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 May Family 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.