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The Miner Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$297k
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$612kArts & Culture$516kHealth$353kPhilanthropy$287kFood & Nutrition$280kHuman Services$256kYouth Development$242kCommunity Improvement$74kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $152k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PLANTRICIAN PROJECT$57,992
DONORSCHOOSEORG$30,000
JAPAN SOCIETY OF NORTHERN CA$25,000
Individual grant recipient$10,052
ST GEORGE CHILDREN'S MUSUEM$10,000
UTAH ARTS ACADEMY$10,000
YOUTH FUTURES ST GEORGE$7,500
SCHOOL OF LIFE FOUNDATION$7,500
THE HALE FOUNDATION THE RUTH$5,000
WASHINGTON CO SCHOOL DISTRICT$5,000
TURNING POINT USA$5,000
APPLE VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$5,000
NPO KAMONOHASHI PROJECT$5,000
JOHN HANCOCK CHARTER SCHOOL$5,000
ABILITY FOUND$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $244k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%ATTACHMENT & TRAUMA NETWORK INC: $8k → 11%MOMENT BY MOMENT: $3k → 9%THINK TECH HAWAII: $5k → 9%ACTIVE RE-ENTRY: $5k → 14%WABI SABI: $3k → 23%JOSIES CLOSET: $3k → 8%ATTACHMENT & TRAUMA NETWORK INC: $5k → 11%THINK TECH HAWAII: $3k → 9%ATTACHMENT & TRAUMA NETWORK INC: $5k → 11%ACTIVE RE-ENTRY: $3k → 14%ATTACHMENT & TRAUMA NETWORK INC: $5k → 11%ATTACHMENT & TRAUMA NETWORK INC: $3k → 11%SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%SENIOR CHARITY CARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 9%YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 9%THE HAPPY FACTORY: $5k → 13%OGDEN VALLEY ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $3k → 9%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN UTAH: $3k → 9%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF NORTHERN UTAH: $3k → 9%THE HAPPY FACTORY: $3k → 13%THE HAPPY FACTORY: $3k → 13%THE HAPPY FACTORY: $3k → 13%THE HAPPY FACTORY: $3k → 13%UTAH PARENT CENTER: $3k → 8%CANYON CREEK SERVICES: $5k → 13%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SW UTAH: $5k → 13%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SW UTAH: $5k → 13%CANYON CREEK SERVICES: $5k → 13%CANYON CREEK SERVICES: $5k → 13%HAPPY FACTORY: $5k → 13%ABILITY FOUND: $5k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SW UTAH: $5k → 13%ABILITY FOUND: $5k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $5k → 8%CANYON CREEK WOMEN'S CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 13%CANYON CREEK SERVICES: $5k → 13%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SW UTAH: $5k → 13%TABITHA'S WAY: $3k → 8%SWITCHPOINT: $5k → 10%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER: $5k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $5k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $10k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $5k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $5k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $5k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $5k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ID
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
MD
AZ
NC
DC
HI
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 124 repeat orgs$642k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

124 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 87 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124
145

Total granted

$2.5M
$597k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

69%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    9× · 2017–2025 · $344k · revenue +24%
  • TP
    The Plantrician Project
    4× · 2022–2025 · $223k · revenue +42%
  • CF
    Cherish Families
    2× · 2021–2022 · $60k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • SD
    SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $57k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
2
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
3
Utah Geological Foundation
4
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

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…

5
Utah Education Fits All

To ensure utah families have the freedom and access to choose the best fit for their childs education.

Education
6
The Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging

Our mission is to engage with communities and catalyze private, public, and philanthropic partnerships to remedy opportunity gaps in economic opportunity, education, health, and housing in Utah.

Community Improvement
7
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

9
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
10
Kids Who Count

We empower families to optimize the developmental potential of their young children.

Education
11
Dyslexia Center of Utah New Heights Inc

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.

Education
12
Trauma-Informed Utah

The primary purpose of Trauma-Informed Utah is to respond to requests for education, resources and training around implementing a Trauma-Informed approach within their organization. The focus includes any and all sectors of society seeking…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc and the most unlike its peers is T Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%9%<5yr17%16%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr8%18%35–55yr12%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%7%<5yr17%9%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr15%41%20–35yr8%10%35–55yr12%8%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.5% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/197
the rest of the field
15%
1,822/12,206

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.

04the grantee network

172 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 172 of the 289 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
168/172
Grantees still filing
95/172
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUND — $200,000 · OtherSCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUNDJAPAN SOCIETY OF NORTHERN C — $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $56,781 · OtherCherish Families — $60,000 · Other+110 more — $1,191,998 · Other+110 moreDONORSCHOOSEORG — $344,186 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGUtah Arts Academy — $35,000 · EducationUtah Arts AcademyJohn Hancock Charter School Foundation — $35,000 · EducationJohn Hancock Chart…+13 more — $83,669 · Education+13 moreST GEORGE CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $40,000 · Arts & CultureST GEORGE…KAYENTA ARTS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Arts & CultureKAYENTA A…ENCORE PERFORMING ARTS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureENCORE PE…DIXIE WATERCOLOR SOCIETY — $24,500 · Arts & CultureDIXIE WAT…ST GEORGE MUSICAL THEATER — $23,500 · Arts & CultureST GEORGE…HALE CENTRE THEATRE — $18,000 · Arts & CultureHALE CENT…CEDAR CITY CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATR — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCEDAR CIT…ZION CANYON MESA — $12,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureZIEGFELD THEATER ARTS — $9,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $53,500 · Arts & Culture+10 moreThe Plantrician Project — $222,992 · Science & TechYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah — $35,000 · Human ServicesCANYON CREEK WOMENS CRISIS CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SOUTHWESTERN UTAH — $22,000 · Human ServicesHAPPY FACTORY INC — $20,600 · Human ServicesABILITY FOUND CORPORATION — $17,500 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE — $12,500 · Human ServicesAdopt-A-Native Elder — $8,500 · Human ServicesACTIVE RE-ENTRY INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesTHINKTECH HAWAII INC — $7,500 · Human Services+16 more — $60,500 · Human ServicesSchool of Life Foundation — $76,075 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WEBER-DAVIS — $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH — $10,000 · Youth Development+3 more — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY REBUILDS — $30,000 · HealthThe Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc — $19,631 · HealthTHE SHARING PLACE — $15,000 · HealthPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $9,500 · HealthFight the New Drug Inc — $8,500 · HealthSUMMIT COUNTY CLUBHOUSE — $7,500 · HealthANGIOGENESIS FOUNDATION INC — $5,100 · HealthHERITAGE SCHOOLS INC — $5,000 · HealthTYLER ROBINSON FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthUS PAIN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthFARM AT GARDNER VILLAGE INC — $5,000 · HealthINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 · Health+5 more — $13,500 · Health
Other$1,583,779Education$497,855Arts & Culture$260,500Science & Tech$222,992Human Services$216,600Youth Development$136,075Health$133,231

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $344,186 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Plantrician Project — $222,992 over 4y, 11% of budgetSchool of Life Foundation — $76,075 over 9y, 15% of budgetCherish Families — $60,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLibertas Network — $48,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetST GEORGE CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $40,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetUtah Arts Academy — $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJohn Hancock Charter School Foundation — $35,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah — $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY REBUILDS — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKAYENTA ARTS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetENCORE PERFORMING ARTS — $25,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetCANYON CREEK WOMENS CRISIS CENTER — $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetST GEORGE MUSICAL THEATER — $23,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WEBER-DAVIS — $22,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC — $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SOUTHWESTERN UTAH — $22,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD — $21,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHAPPY FACTORY INC — $20,600 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetGOOD DEED REVOLUTION — $20,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetEmpower Mali — $20,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetThe Esselstyn Family Foundation Inc — $19,631 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetHALE CENTRE THEATRE — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetABILITY FOUND CORPORATION — $17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGES TO AMERICA INC REFUGEE SOCCER — $17,500 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetBest Seat in the House — $17,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAPAN SOCIETY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $16,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc — $15,150 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCEDAR CITY CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATR — $15,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAdventure Bucket List Foundation — $15,000 over 3y, 78% of budgetTHE SHARING PLACE — $15,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL CITIZENS INITIATIVE INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE — $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetZION CANYON MESA — $12,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetFriends of Liahona Inc — $10,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF UTAH — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIRON COUNTY CARE AND SHARE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPhysicians Committee for Responsible Med — $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZIEGFELD THEATER ARTS — $9,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUTAH NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTION — $9,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budget
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 DONORSCHOOSEORG
  • Who funds The Plantrician Project
  • Who funds School of Life Foundation
  • Who funds Cherish Families
  • Who funds Libertas Network
  • Who funds ST GEORGE CHILDRENS MUSEUM
  • Who funds Utah Arts Academy
  • Who funds John Hancock Charter School Foundation
  • Who funds Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah
  • Who funds COMMUNITY REBUILDS
  • Who funds KAYENTA ARTS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC
  • Who funds ENCORE PERFORMING ARTS
  • Who funds CANYON CREEK WOMENS CRISIS CENTER
  • Who funds DIXIE WATERCOLOR SOCIETY
  • Who funds ST GEORGE MUSICAL THEATER
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WEBER-DAVIS
  • Who funds THANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SOUTHWESTERN UTAH
  • Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD
  • Who funds HAPPY FACTORY INC
  • Who funds GOOD DEED REVOLUTION
  • Who funds Empower Mali
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds The Esselstyn Family 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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT131.6× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · McCarthey Family Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · The Ashton Family Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Marriner S Eccles 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 Miner 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 80%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Reed Institute1% of income from government
  • Read Usa Inc1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 289 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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