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The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt 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.

$218k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$10M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

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Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHealthRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$218k61%
FY202413$76k38%
FY202314$80k50%
FY202215$118k67%
FY202112$60k67%
FY20205$8k60%
FY20193$75k33%
FY20182$5k50%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$368kEducation$158kCommunity Improvement$128kHealth$70kHuman Services$65kRecreation & Sports$42kPublic Benefit$20kInternational$19kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints$340,5529n/a
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation$68,00022%
Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center$50,00021%
Mayor's Fund for Las Vegas Life$50,00013%
T Birds with a Purpose Inc$26,00037%
More Good Foundation$25,00010%
Maliheh Free Clinic$15,00020%
Care Lab$15,00013%
Charitable Events Corporation$15,000417%
Canyon Creek Womens Crisis Center$13,50040%
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All grantees of The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints$340,5529n/a
The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation$68,00022%
Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center$50,00021%
Mayor's Fund for Las Vegas Life$50,00013%
T Birds with a Purpose Inc$26,00037%
More Good Foundation$25,00010%
Maliheh Free Clinic$15,00020%
Care Lab$15,00013%
Charitable Events Corporation$15,000417%
Canyon Creek Womens Crisis Center$13,50040%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc$10,00010%
Academy for Creating Enterprise$10,00010%
East High School Foundation$10,0001n/a
United States Fund for Unicef$10,00010%
San Francisco AIDS Foundation$9,25030%
No Poor Among US$8,90030%
Hanging Cleats Foundation$8,5005100%
Color Country Futbol Club$7,10035%
Chair the Hope Inc$5,00012%
Ensign Peak Foundation$5,0001n/a
The Orrin G Hatch Foundation$5,00010%
Eni & Hina Faleomavaega Foundation$3,0003n/a
Internet Keep Safe Coalition$3,00010%
Utah Youth Village$2,50010%
Living Hope Educational Enterprises$2,0002n/a
MusicLight Inc$2,000128%
Iron County School District$1,0002n/a
Utah Food Bank$1,00010%
Refugee Justice League Inc$1,00011%
Holding Out HELP$1,00010%
Off the Cuff Comedy Improvisation$1,0001n/a
Utah State University Foundation$9003n/a
Harrington Center for the Arts$6001n/a
Elizabeth Smart Foundation$50010%
Volunteers of America Utah$50010%
Cambodia Job Foundation$50010%
NAMI National$50010%
Sutherland Institute$15020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($181k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation: $68,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMayor's Fund for Las Vegas Life: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetT Birds with a Purpose Inc: $26,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetMore Good Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCare Lab: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCharitable Events Corporation: $15,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetCanyon Creek Womens Crisis Center: $13,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco AIDS Foundation: $9,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNo Poor Among US: $8,900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHanging Cleats Foundation: $8,500 over 5y, 100% of budgetColor Country Futbol Club: $7,100 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetChair the Hope Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Orrin G Hatch Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInternet Keep Safe Coalition: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUtah Youth Village: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusicLight Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetUtah Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee Justice League Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHolding Out HELP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetElizabeth Smart Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVolunteers of America Utah: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCambodia Job Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI National: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSutherland Institute: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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 FoundationUT29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ihc Health Services Inc · Semnani Family Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation · The Huntsman Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · Lawrence & Janet Dee 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.

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About The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation

How much does The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation give?
The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $218,089 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Education (17%), Community Improvement (14%).
Who are The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ($341k), The Nashville Chamber Public Benefit Foundation ($68k), Encircle Family and Youth Resource Center ($50k).
Does The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, The Community Foundation of Utah, Ihc Health Services Inc.
Where is The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation based?
The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation is based in UT.

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 52 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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