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THE POLICY PROJECT
THE POLICY PROJECT's mission is to remove barriers to opportunity through solution-based policy at all levels in society, including policies of governments, businesses, families and individuals.
$1.8M
Granted FY2024
28
Grants
1
Communities
$224k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 28 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $691k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
- DAVIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$224,000
- TOOELE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$200,000
- SOUTH SANPETE SCHOOL DISTRICT$160,000
- WEBER SCHOOL FOUNDATION$127,619
- WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$126,200
- MILLARD SCHOOL DISTRICT$80,000
- OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION$60,000
- CANYONS SCHOOL DISTRICT$53,500
- KANE SCHOOL DISTRICT$42,300
- CARBON SCHOOL DISTRICT$40,000
- JUAB SCHOOL DISTRICT$40,000
- PINNACLE CANYON ACADEMY$40,000
- IRON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$40,000
- PIUTE SCHOOL DISTRICT$40,000
- GRAND COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$40,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 71% of your 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 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
Real Salt Lake Academy High School
To manage, operate, guide, direct, and promote a public charter school funded by local, state, and federal sources.
Education
2
Canyons School District Education
Canyons School District Education Foundation works in tandem with community and business partners to build support for public schools and to advance Canyons School Districts mission to help every student become college- and career-ready…
Education
3
Utah International Charter School
To provide a rigorous and relevant education for secondary students interested in global perspectives, including recently arrived immigrants, refugees, and native English speakers.
Education
4
Timpanogos Academy Foundation
To establish a school where each student gains the scholarly knowledge and skills vital to becoming a self-motivated, lifelong learner and to succeed in the rapidly evolving and complex world. This mission will be accomplished by using the…
Education
5
Logan City School District
To improve the lives of young people and strengthen our community by enhancing the educational opportunities available to all students in the Logan City School District.
Education
6
The Ranches Academy Incorporated
Public charter school educating Utah students.
Education
7
Box Elder School District
To build enduring partnerships between communities and schools of Box Elder School District.
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8
Utah County Academy of Sciences
A Utah public charter school supported by state and federal funding.
Education
9
Salt Lake Arts Academy
Salt Lake Arts Academy is a middle school serving fifth through eighth graders. Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Academy utilizes the unique educational, artistic, scientific and cultural resources of downtown Salt Lake City, and…
Education
10
Leadership Academy of Utah
To manage, operate, guide, direct, and promote a public charter school funded by local, state, and federal sources.
Education
11
Spectrum Academy
To manage, operate, guide, direct, and promote a public charter school funded by local, state, and federal sources.
Education
12
The Freedom Academy Foundation
Kindergarten through 12th grade charter school in the State of Utah.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salt Lake Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Larry H Miller and Gail Miller. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,203,500Education$487,619Philanthropy$38,845
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 DAVIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOOELE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEBER SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEVIER SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds PINNACLE CANYON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SALT LAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALDEN SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds ROCKWELL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
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.
Ihc Health Services IncUT17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Ihc Health Services Inc · GenYOUTH Incorporated · America First Credit Union Charitable Foundation · Share Our Strength · For Inspiration and Recognition of · 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 POLICY PROJECT 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.
04Through 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: TOOELE EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 364688664 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 TOOELE EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 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
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% 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 Policy Project?
Find your warmest path to The Policy Project 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