· Private foundation
The Reagan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
61% of The Reagan Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Reagan Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $48k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k13 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $10,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH MORAN EYE CENTER | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ORTHOPEDIC CENTER | $5,000 |
| YOUTHLINK | $4,000 |
| UTAH CREW | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH COLLEGE OF LAW-REAGAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,000 |
| CULVER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SALT LAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR THE MARILYN PROJECT | $2,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $2,000 |
| HEALTH NET | $1,500 |
| WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| JUDGE MEMORIAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJewish Family Service3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +41%
- USUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +35%
- TWTHE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL4× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF UTAH ATHLETICSone grant, 2020 · $39k
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +43%
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.
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.
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Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
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To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.
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How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds CULVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Salt Lake Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
- Who funds THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAY GALGON LIFE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UTAH CREW INC ↗
- Who funds RICHARD SABALA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Utah · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Reagan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Reagan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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