· Private foundation
The Scott W and Betsy D Thornton Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 99% of THE SCOTT W AND BETSY D THORNTON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+7 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $618,993 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $501,008 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $490,916 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $440,346 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $328,322 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $265,075 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $258,141 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $248,240 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $244,186 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $240,693 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $233,035 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $230,274 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $197,507 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $150,962 |
| THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND | $78,532 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 26 since wound down.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PCPark City Education Foundation2× · 2019–2020 · $13k · revenue +78%
- CCCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY3× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +86%
- NANATIONAL ABILITY CENTER3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- UFUTAH FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +53%
- SMST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +31%
- HAHOPE ARISING INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -50%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
Utah's hogle zoo creates champions for wildlife and is our community's gateway to animals, connecting our visitors with the natural world and engaging them in wildlife conservation action locally and worldwide.
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.…
To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
We inspire people to explore, discover and learn about earth's diverse ecosystems.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.
Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.
The organization's mission is to help survivors of torture living in utah to heal from their physical and psychological injuries and rebuild their lives.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Work Activity Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Slavens School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 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. 43 of the 65 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.
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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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Katherine W Dumke & Ezekiel R Dumke Jr Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Making a Difference Foundation · Ballard Miller Foundation · Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Association · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Utah's Promise · McCarthey Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee 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 organization The Scott W and Betsy D Thornton Family Foundation 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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