· Private foundation
Neal and Sherrie Savage Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of Neal and Sherrie Savage Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Dechomai Asset Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 18 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Neal and Sherrie Savage Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $306k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k13 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $143k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $25,000 |
| UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| Fox Hollow Elementary School | $15,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATI | $10,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST CHILDRENS ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| LOVELOUD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GIVE HOPE GUATEMALA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| OTHER SIDE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| Polaris High School | $10,000 |
| WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- UVUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2024 · $231k · revenue +5%
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $46k · revenue +67%- GHGIVE HOPE GUATEMALA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- PCPROVO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue -56%
- OFOK Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +659%
- UFUTAH FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +53%
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.
The National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho, a major nonprofit health organization, is dedicated to preventing diseases of the kidney, improving the health and wellbeing of individuals and families affected by kidney disease, and…
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
Funding solar energy solutions, building capacity, and amplifying local leadership for those experiencing the greatest impacts from climate change, economic instability, and social injustice.
To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.
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…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
The organization's mission is to preserve and promote individual civil rights and civil liberties as guaranteed by the united states and utah constitutions and the civil rights laws within the state of utah.
Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Kenneth C Savage Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 77 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
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 DECHOMAI ASSET TRUST ↗
- Who funds UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE HOPE GUATEMALA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Other Side Academy ↗
- Who funds Alpine School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOVELOUD FOUNDATION % TRIBECA BUSINESS MGMT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LYMEDISEASEORG ↗
- Who funds THE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROVO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN ROOTS ↗
- Who funds UTAH VALLEY REFUGEES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE OF CELEBRATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds CITIES STRONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OK Foundation ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING PLANET INC ↗
- Who funds American Heritage Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK 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: Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · University Impact · The Community Foundation of Utah · Beesley Family Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family Foundation · Wheeler Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Ihc Health Services Inc · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · doTERRA Healing Hands 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 Neal and Sherrie Savage Family 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.