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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.

$4.7M
Granted FY2022
21
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$619k
Largest
01What you fund
01

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.

02FY2022 · 21 grants

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
$233,035
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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:

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.

area typical 8%PEACE FOR PAUL FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%PEACE FOR PAUL FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%PEACE FOR PAUL FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%PEACE HOUSE: $4k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $2k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $2k → 5%THE INN BETWEEN: $2k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $1k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $500 → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $4k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 27 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
35

Total granted

$12M
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+31%

Still filing today

78%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
AnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • PC
    Park City Education Foundation
    2× · 2019–2020 · $13k · revenue +78%
  • CC
    CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +86%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER
    3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +53%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +31%
  • HA
    HOPE ARISING INC
    one 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.

04Your 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
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

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.

Environment
2
Utah Zoological Society

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.

Animals
3
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
4
Utah Health Policy Project

To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.

Health
5
The Living Planet Inc

We inspire people to explore, discover and learn about earth's diverse ecosystems.

6
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
7
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
8
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Tucson Audubon Society

Inspire people to enjoy and protect birds through recreation, education, conservation, and restoration of the environment, upon which we all depend.

Animals
10
Summit Land Conservancy

Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.

Environment
11
Utah Health & Human Rights Project

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.

Health
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic School District Foun…Food Pantries & AssistanceNative Hawaiian Community D…Christian Missionary Organi…Developmental Disabilities …Community Health CentersChild and Family ServicesCancer Support OrganizationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…Wildlife Rehabilitation Cen…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Pregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionCommunity Arts OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%18%10–20yr17%39%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr17%42%20–35yr12%10%35–55yr13%28%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,372

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND — $11,784,206 · OtherTHORNTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND+37 more — $80,250 · OtherPeace House Inc — $7,750 · Human ServicesNeighborhood House Association — $6,000 · Human ServicesThe Peace for Paul Foundation of Oregon Inc — $4,500 · Human ServicesTHE INN BETWEEN — $3,000 · Human Services+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesPark City Education Foundation — $13,000 · EducationKENYA KEYS — $4,500 · EducationFriends of Slavens School Inc — $1,000 · EducationWasatch Homeless Health Care — $6,000 · HealthPeople's Health Clicnic — $6,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $3,500 · Health+2 more — $1,000 · HealthPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $14,825 · Philanthropy+1 more — $250 · PhilanthropyWomen of the World — $5,600 · InternationalHOPE ARISING INC — $5,000 · InternationalORPHANAGE SUPPORT SERVICES ORGANIZATION — $1,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 · InternationalHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $675 · InternationalFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY — $3,500 · AnimalsGRIZZLY DISCOVERY CENTER INC — $2,500 · AnimalsNuzzles & Co — $1,250 · AnimalsSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER — $1,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $1,000 · AnimalsHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,000 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $500 · Animals
Other$11,864,456Human Services$21,750Education$18,500Health$16,500Philanthropy$15,075International$13,275Animals$10,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $14,825 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPark City Education Foundation — $13,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY — $9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeace House Inc — $7,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPeople's Health Clicnic — $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNeighborhood House Association — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWomen of the World — $5,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE ARISING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKENYA KEYS — $4,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Peace for Paul Foundation of Oregon Inc — $4,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKOKUA HAWAII FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY — $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUTAHNS AGAINST HUNGER — $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGRIZZLY DISCOVERY CENTER INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH — $2,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORK ACTIVITY CENTER INC — $1,275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNuzzles & Co — $1,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALF ENGEN SKI MUSEUM FOUNDATION IN — $800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH ARTISTS — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Access — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER RISING — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEATS Park City — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT31.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Scott W and Betsy D Thornton Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Scott W and Betsy D Thornton Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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