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The Pi Foundation Inc

The pi foundation's mission is to support, encourage, and foster charitable giving.

$6.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$32MInternational$4.5MPhilanthropy$4.0MEducation$2.0MHealth$1.9MArts & Culture$1.3MHousing & Shelter$919kHuman Services$567kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $5,062,862, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,050,362 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $987,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $123k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $375k
  • $250k+6 grants · $4.5M
$12,151
Median grant
4
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LDS CHURCH$2,234,364
NORTH LOGAN CITY$1,000,000
B H ROBERTS FOUNDATION$527,416
TIFIE HUMANITARIAN$256,000
INTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION$252,500
RODS HEROES$250,000
BISHOP WARD HIGH SCHOOL$200,000
LEADERSHIP EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT$125,000
GRANITE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$50,000
MORE GOOD FOUNDATION$45,833
HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION$25,000
PADMA ORGANIZATION$12,151
DAVIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
FAITH MATTERS FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDREN'S CANCER FUND OF DALLAS IN$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $724k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KIWANIS FOUNDATION OF TOPSAIL ISLAN: $37k → 12%RODS HEROES: $250k → 12%THE TYLER HALLSEY FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%WHATEVER IT TAKES- THE TYLER: $75k → 11%TABITHA'S WAY: $20k → 8%TABITHA'S WAY: $18k → 8%RISING STAR OUTREACH: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICES: $7k → 8%CHILD LIBERATION FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%RISE AND REBUILD FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $207k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
NY
MA
OH
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40M · 24 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
33

Total granted

$40M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+22%

Still filing today

88%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BR
    BH ROBERTS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +136% · 63% of their budget
  • HC
    HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $639k · revenue +63%
  • OR
    OUR RESCUE
    2× · 2017–2023 · $600k · revenue +180%

Funded once

  • SL
    SALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $600k · revenue +131%
  • MM
    MAYAN MIRACLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $280k · revenue -84% · 63% of their budget
  • TL
    THE LIVING PLANET INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +11%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
3
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
4
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
7
The Community Foundation of Utah

We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.

Philanthropy
8
Salt Lake Education Foundation

To promote student success in the Salt Lake City School District by using private donations to supplement children's educational experiences.

Philanthropy
9
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
10
University Hospital Foundation

Fundraising for healthcare to support patient care, medical education, and clinical research for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics and other similar nonprofit organizations.

Philanthropy
11
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
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12
Utah Valley University Foundation Inc

To assist Utah Valley University (UVU) in fulfilling its objectives: to aid and advance the services of UVU, to raise funds for student scholarships, and to raise funds for University program development.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Whatever It Takes - the Tyler Hallsey Foundation. 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

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
43/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $31,347,868 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS+34 more: $4,925,079 · Other+34 moreTifie Humanitarian: $4,172,000 · InternationalTifie Huma…MAYAN MIRACLE FOUNDATION: $280,299 · InternationalMAYAN MIRA…+2 more: $28,906 · InternationalAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $915,004 · PhilanthropyRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $429,403 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $245,283 · PhilanthropyLEGACY GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $103,613 · Philanthropy+2 more: $42,235 · PhilanthropyINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $760,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $638,700 · HealthTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $115,000 · HealthTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC: $75,000 · Health+5 more: $133,000 · HealthFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,262,353 · Community Improvement+1 more: $21,500 · Community ImprovementSALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $600,000 · Arts & CultureOUR RESCUE: $600,000 · Arts & CultureHeritage Arts Foundation: $45,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $26,308 · Arts & CultureMORE GOOD FOUNDATION: $358,333 · EducationGranite Education Foundation: $250,000 · EducationWASATCH ACADEMY: $185,000 · EducationLEADERSHIP EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND PROSPERITY INC: $125,000 · EducationUTAH STEM FOUNDATION INC: $70,207 · EducationSalt Lake Community College Foundation: $70,032 · EducationDell Loy and Julie Hansen Scholars Foundation: $70,000 · Education+4 more: $54,548 · Education
Other$36,272,947International$4,481,205Philanthropy$1,735,538Health$1,721,700Community Improvement$1,283,853Arts & Culture$1,271,308Education$1,183,120

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTifie Humanitarian: $4,172,000 over 8y, 68% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,262,353 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBH ROBERTS FOUNDATION: $1,027,416 over 2y, 63% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $915,004 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $760,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $638,700 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $600,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $429,403 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMORE GOOD FOUNDATION: $358,333 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetMAYAN MIRACLE FOUNDATION: $280,299 over 1y, 63% of budgetGranite Education Foundation: $250,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetRODS HEROES INC: $250,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetTHE LIVING PLANET INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $245,283 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASATCH ACADEMY: $185,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWHATEVER IT TAKES - THE TYLER HALLSEY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetLEADERSHIP EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND PROSPERITY INC: $125,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLEGACY GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $103,613 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSalt Lake Community College Foundation: $70,032 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetASPEN ACADEMY INVESTMENT FUND: $62,775 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetFOREVER FIGHTERS: $50,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetSummit Journeys Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTABITHA'S WAY: $37,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCharityVision International: $34,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC: $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHRISTMAS BOX INTERNATIONAL: $21,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUtah Kids Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetMothers Without Borders: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRise and Rebuild Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOne Voice Children: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDELTA GAMMA ANCHOR CENTER FOR BLIND CHILDREN: $18,576 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHumanitarian Experience Inc: $16,755 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlpine School District Foundation: $13,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPADMA ORGANIZATION: $12,151 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCenter for Genomic Interpretation: $11,298 over 1y, 55% of budgetBOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAITH MATTERS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDavis Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUtah Venture Outdoors Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetVISUAL ART INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRising Star Outreach Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRES ISLAS ORPHANAGE FUND INCORPORATED: $7,600 over 1y, 5.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Community Foundat…Sorenson Legacy Found…Larry H Miller and Ga…The Miner FoundationUniversity ImpactIhc Health Services I…Pacificorp Foundation…Joan and Tim Fenton F…Beesley Family Founda…George S and Dolores …American Express Foun…C Scott & Dorothy E W…
The Community Foundation of UtahUT42.7× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Utah · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Miner Foundation · University Impact · Ihc Health Services Inc · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · American Express Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Pi Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pi Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Pi Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Pi Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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