· Private foundation
The Miner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k49 grants · $152k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- DDONORSCHOOSEORG9× · 2017–2025 · $344k · revenue +24%
- TPThe Plantrician Project4× · 2022–2025 · $223k · revenue +42%
- CFCherish Families2× · 2021–2022 · $60k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- SDSCHWAB DONOR ADVISED FUNDone grant, 2022 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $57k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
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…
To ensure utah families have the freedom and access to choose the best fit for their childs education.
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.
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…
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
We empower families to optimize the developmental potential of their young children.
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.
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…
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 field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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.
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.
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
- Read Usa Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.