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THE PHILIP G McCARTHEY FAMILY FOUNDATION
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k5 grants · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rowland Hall St Mark's School | $55,000 |
| The Alta Club Building Foundation Inc | $6,000 |
| Utah's Hogle Zoo | $1,000 |
| University of Utah | $1,000 |
| Georgetown University | $1,000 |
| Jesuits West | $500 |
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% 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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- RHROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL3× · 2022–2025 · $70k · revenue +59%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +47%- SFSOBRIETY FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CFCystic Fibrosis Foundationone grant, 2024 · $6k
- EUEQUALITY UTAHone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -117%
- LLLife Lifted Charitiesone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -94%
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.
World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.
BioUtah was created to elevate the stature and influence of Utahs life science community on the national and global stage. The organization serves Utahs medical device, biopharma, natural products and healthcare industries through…
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
The organization's purpose is focused on improving and advancing health care in utah to be more affordable, with better health outcomes by accelerating, enabling and promoting healthcare innovation.
Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.
To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
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…
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…
The Utah Medical Association is a professional resource for member physicians providing educational opportunities and dissemination of medical knowledge and practices.
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.
The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Utah and the most unlike its peers is The Salt Lake City Police Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 27 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 ROWLAND HALL-ST MARK'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOBRIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Salt Lake City Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Wasatch Homeless Health Care ↗
- Who funds THE ALTA CLUB BUILDING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY UTAH ↗
- Who funds Life Lifted Charities ↗
- Who funds JAMBO TANZANIA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE HOOPFEST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALTA CLUB ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds Maliheh Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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: McCarthey Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Semnani Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation · John and Marcia Price Family Foundation · Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Association · Kanter Family Foundation · Hemingway 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 PHILIP G McCARTHEY 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.
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.
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