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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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $1,729,964 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,822,896 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $92,932 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $691k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| PIUTE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| IRON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| GRAND COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| SEVIER SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| UINTAH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| CARBON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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…
Our mission is to fund and support educator-powered initiatives that inspire all Park City students to reach their academic and lifelong potential.
Provide academic growth to students of San Juan County Utah School District by promoting, sponsoring and carrying out educational, scientific, charitable and related activities and objectives with the San Juan County School District.
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…
The mission of Real Academy is to educate, empower and equip our students for the life they choose while at school and beyond graduation. Within a small, caring community, our laser-focused educational STEM program design provides each…
To prepare students to become confident and creative builders of their future, equipped through the arts and academics to take responsibility for shaping their communities.
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.
To provide a rigorous and relevant education for secondary students interested in global perspectives, including recently arrived immigrants, refugees, and native English speakers.
To build enduring partnerships between communities and schools of Box Elder School District.
To provide scholarships to Springdale students and grants to teachers.
To provide funding for Alpine School District schools and students.
Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…
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 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.
10 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. 10 of the 28 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 Davis Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Tooele County School District Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Weber County School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pinnacle Canyon Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds Richfield Residential Hall School Board Inc ↗
- 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.
Open a dossier: Ihc Health Services Inc · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Friend to Friend Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · GenYOUTH Incorporated · Art Works for Kids · America First Credit Union Charitable Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Share Our Strength · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 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.
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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