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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 FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $152k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mayors Fund for Las Vegas Life$50,000
Southern Utah University$46,819
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints$20,100
Western Governors University$20,000
T-Birds with a Purpose$15,000
Maliheh Free Clinic$10,000
East High School Foundation$10,000
Unicef USA$10,000
The Academy for Creating Enterprise$10,000
World Food Program$10,000
Ensign Peak Foundation$5,000
Canyon Creek Services$5,000
Charitable Events Corp$2,000
American Prep Education Foundation$1,070
Eni & Hina Faleomavaega Foundation$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%World Food Program: $10k → 14%Cambodia Job Foundation: $500 → 8%Canyon Creek Services: $7k → 13%Canyon Creek Services: $5k → 13%Elizabeth Smart Foundation: $500 → 8%Canyon Creek Services: $1k → 13%Encircle LGBTQ Family and You Resource Center: $25k → 8%Canyon Creek Services: $1k → 13%Encircle LGBTQ Family and You Resource Center: $25k → 8%Holding Out HELP: $1k → 8%Utah Youth Village: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
NV
CA
UT
VA
TN
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$704k · 16 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
24

Total granted

$704k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

56%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MF
    Maliheh Free Clinic
    2× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +63%
  • CE
    Charitable Events Corporation
    4× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue ×22
  • CC
    CANYON CREEK WOMENS CRISIS CENTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • MG
    MORE GOOD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -35%
  • CL
    Care Labgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +47%
  • JM
    John Miller's Charity
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
2
Utah Geological Foundation
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3
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
5
Lightspark Foundation
Civil Rights
6
Child Liberation Foundation Inc

The Child Liberation Foundation (CLF), founded in February 2017, is dedicated to eradicating child trafficking worldwide. In 2023, CLF expanded its mission beyond rescue operations to emphasize rehabilitation and healing for survivors of…

Human Services
7
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
8
Utah Foster Care Foundation Inc

We serve Utah's children by finding, educating, and nurturing families to meet the needs of children in foster care

Human Services
9
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
10
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
11
The Ammon Foundation
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12
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Orrin G Hatch Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hanging Cleats Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 52 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
14/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $340,552 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSSouthern Utah University: $127,542 · OtherSouthern Utah UniversityTHE NASHVILLE CHAMBER PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION: $68,000 · OtherTHE NASHVILLE CHAMBER PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION+27 more: $116,970 · Other+27 moreEncircle Family and Youth Resource Center: $50,000 · Human ServicesEncircle …CANYON CREEK WOMENS CRISIS CENTER: $13,500 · Human ServicesCANYON CR…FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS O…+4 more: $4,500 · Human Services+4 moreMAYOR'S FUND FOR LAS VEGAS LIFE: $50,000 · Public BenefitCare Lab: $15,000 · Public BenefitT Birds with a Purpose Inc: $26,000 · PhilanthropyCharitable Events Corporation: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCHAIR THE HOPE INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyMORE GOOD FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationInternet Keep Safe Coalition: $3,000 · EducationMusicLight Inc: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $150 · EducationAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $10,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 · InternationalHanging Cleats Foundation: $8,500 · Recreation & SportsCOLOR COUNTRY FUTBOL CLUB: $7,100 · Recreation & Sports
Other$653,064Human Services$78,000Public Benefit$65,000Philanthropy$47,500Education$30,150International$20,000Recreation & Sports$15,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSutherland Institute: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 Found…The Community Foundat…Ihc Health Services I…Semnani Family Founda…Beesley Family Founda…Larry H Miller and Ga…George S and Dolores …doTERRA Healing Hands…The Huntsman Foundati…The Ashton Family Fou…Intermountain Communi…Lawrence & Janet Dee …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael & Jacalyn Leavitt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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