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The R & G Connors 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$45kHealth$24kYouth Development$4kInternational$2kEducation$1kFood & Nutrition$500Public Safety & Disaster$500Housing & Shelter$300Other$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$117
Median grant
3
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RANDALL HOLMGREN FOR CHILDREN IN LE$30,000
UVU UCCU CENTER$3,500
CAMERON BULLOCK FOR CURTIS$500
ROBIN DEMOTTE FOR AMY$300
Individual grant recipient$117
JENNIFER HAYDEN FOR WIDOW OF CHURCH$117
JOHN BOND'S FAMILY$117
SARAH KUNZLER FOR PHELPS FAMILY$116
Individual grant recipient$116
GREG MIKAT'S FAMILY$116
THELMA ARMSTRONG'S FAMILY$116
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC$100
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TOUKRAINEWITHLOVEORG: $1k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $3k → 14%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.
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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5k · 3 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +56% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
34

Total granted

$5k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+56%

Still filing today

100%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +69%
  • TH
    Tifie Humanitarian
    2× · 2020–2024 · $600 · revenue +71%
  • WF
    WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $317 · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • TR
    The Rachel Covey Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +66%
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
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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2
Unitus Labs

Unitus Labs provides consulting support loans grants and investments to partner organizations who are implementing innovative market-based approaches to reducing global poverty with potential for very large scale impact.

International
3
Utah Geological Foundation
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4
Utah World Trade Center

World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.

Community Improvement
5
Sunstone Education Foundation Incorporated

The mission of the Sunstone Education Foundation is to sponsor open forums of Mormon thought and experiences.

Religion
6
Gamechanger Charity

Gamechanger leverages technology and innovation to help children and their families who encounter life threatening illnesses.

Health
7
Utah Foundation

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.…

Public Benefit
8
National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho

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…

Health
9
Honnold Foundation

Funding solar energy solutions, building capacity, and amplifying local leadership for those experiencing the greatest impacts from climate change, economic instability, and social injustice.

Environment
10
Wards Foundation

Working to advance rate disease support to improve the lives of people affected by rare diseases.

Health
11
The Meg Foundation

Empower families with the skills, strategies, and support they need to manage pain and medical anxiety. We give people not just information, but a path to self-advocacy and action.

Health
12
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Hypersomnia Foundation Inc. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
13/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RANDALL HOLMGREN FOR CHILDREN IN LE: $30,000 · OtherRANDALL HOLMGREN FOR CHILDREN IN LEIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUVU UCCU CENTER: $3,500 · OtherUVU UCCU CENTERTEVITA ATALIFO FAMILY - GOFUNDME: $2,500 · Other+32 more: $13,308 · Other+32 moreFOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC: $4,250 · HealthFOUNDATION …The Rachel Covey Foundation: $3,690 · HealthThe Rachel …Camp Kesem National: $2,500 · Human ServicesStand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love: $1,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 · Human ServicesBACKPACK PROJECT INC: $300 · Human ServicesHYPERSOMNIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $317 · EducationTifie Humanitarian: $600 · InternationalTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC: $500 · EnvironmentTHE JOHN A & LEAH D WIDTSOE FOUNDATION FKA THE JOHN A WIDTSOE FOUNDATION: $200 · Religion
Other$64,308Health$7,940Human Services$4,300Education$817International$600Environment$500Religion$200

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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC: $4,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rachel Covey Foundation: $3,690 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTifie Humanitarian: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHYPERSOMNIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $317 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBACKPACK PROJECT INC: $300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN A & LEAH D WIDTSOE FOUNDATION FKA THE JOHN A WIDTSOE FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds The Rachel Covey Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
  • Who funds Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love ↗
  • Who funds Tifie Humanitarian ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds HYPERSOMNIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BACKPACK PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Shelter Kids Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHN A & LEAH D WIDTSOE FOUNDATION FKA THE JOHN A WIDTSOE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH10× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 R & G Connors Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The R & G Connors Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 48 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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