Utah · Private foundation
The Miner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $297k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 133
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $57,992
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 133
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Miner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 55 | $295k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 133 | $590k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 123 | $548k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 118 | $865k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 79 | $391k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $112k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $154k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $109k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donorschooseorg | $344,186 | 9 | 0% |
| The Plantrician Project | $222,992 | 4 | 11% |
| School of Life Foundation | $76,075 | 9 | 15% |
| Cherish Families | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Libertas Network | $48,500 | 8 | 0% |
| St George Childrens Museum | $40,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Utah Arts Academy | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| John Hancock Charter School Foundation | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kayenta Arts Foundation | $30,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 194 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 93 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Miner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 159 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Miner Foundation
- How much does The Miner Foundation give?
- The Miner Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $297,044 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 133 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Miner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Miner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Donorschooseorg ($344k), The Plantrician Project ($223k), School of Life Foundation ($76k).
- Does The Miner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Miner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Miner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation.
- Where is The Miner Foundation based?
- The Miner Foundation is based in UT.
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