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· Private foundation
The Mountain Spring Foundation
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$250k
Granted FY2024
12
Grants
2
Communities
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Public Benefit$106kEducation$70kHealth$55kHuman Services$50kAnimals$30kArts & Culture$20kPhilanthropy$15kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$191k
02FY2024 · 12 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $242k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
- WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC$40,000
- MALIHEH FREE CLINIC$35,000
- HUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$32,000
- GENERATION DATA EDUCATION FUND$30,000
- POLICY PROJECT$25,000
- HALE CENTRE THEATRE$20,000
- CHANCE ACADEMY$20,000
- HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH$15,000
- BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$15,000
- STAR LIT BLADES SYNCHRONIZED SKATING$10,000
- SHARE-PARENTS OF UTAH$5,000
- NAYER AND JAVED HONARVAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$2,500
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.
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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$376k · 6 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +195% since the first grant, against +74% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
6
Total granted
$376k
$77k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+195%
+74%
Still filing today
100%
83%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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
- WAWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +195%
- PPPOLICY PROJECT2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +6199%
- MFMALIHEH FREE CLINIC2× · 2023–2024 · $54k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- CLCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF UTAH INCone grant, 2022 · $20k
- EFENCIRCLE FAMILY AND YOUTH RESOURCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +340%
HOPEWELL FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +59%
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
Equality Utah Foundation
To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.
Civil Rights
2
Muflehun
Muflehun is an independent non-profit organization at the nexus of society, security and technology, serving as a resource center in preventing hate, extremism and violence by: (a) Conducting research and analysis of current hate and…
Education
3
Sage Bionetworks
Sage Bionetworks is on a mission to drive a new age of discovery through truly open science and radical collaboration. We aim to create a world where silos within and across science and technology no longer exist, forging a path to optimal…
Science & Tech
4
X Prize Foundation Inc
To bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefits of humanity, thereby inspiring the formation of new industries and the revitalization of markets
Public Benefit
5
Aim Youth Mental Health
AIM is bridging the gap between research and access to care for youth struggling with their mental health, by finding, funding, and implementing evidence-based treatments, and empowering youth to discover their own mental health solutions.
Health
6
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
The mission of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley ("Law Foundation") is to advance the rights of under-represented individuals and families in our diverse community through legal services, strategic advocacy and educational outreach.
Crime & Legal
7
Startx
Startx accelerates the development of stanford's highest-potential entrepreneurs.
Community Improvement
8
Challenge Success
Challenge Success partners with schools, families, and communities to embrace a broad definition of success and implement research-based strategies that promote student well-being and engagement with learning.
Education
9
Opportunity Labs Foundation
To build and champion lasting solutions that create meaningful opportunities for children.
Community Improvement
10
Student Research and Development
Education of the public, primarily K-12 and postsecondary students, in technology and engineering.
Education
11
Upaya Social Ventures
Upaya Social Ventures fights extreme poverty through dignified jobs. Founded in 2011, Upaya provides investment and consulting support to early-stage businesses aimed at creating jobs for people living in extreme poverty.
International
12
Honest Game Foundation
Honest Game Foundations mission is to level the playing filed so that every student has a fair and equitable opportunity to attend college. We do this by partnering with corporations and donors to support schools, students, and families…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Nayer and Javad Honarvar Memorial. 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
16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$215,889Public Benefit$106,000Education$70,000Health$55,389Human Services$50,000Animals$30,000Arts & Culture$20,000
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 WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds POLICY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MALIHEH FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHANCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GENERATION DATA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds HALE CENTRE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ENCIRCLE FAMILY AND YOUTH RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds STAR LIT BLADES SYNCHRONIZED SKATING ↗
- Who funds SILICON SLOPES ↗
- Who funds NAYER AND JAVED HONARVAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.
Semnani Family FoundationUT13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Semnani Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore · Ihc Health Services Inc · The Community Foundation of Utah · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation The Mountain Spring 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
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: STAR LIT BLADES SYNCHRONIZED SKATING.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 464354443 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on STAR LIT BLADES SYNCHRONIZED SKATING, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Mountain Spring Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Mountain Spring Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines