· Private foundation
The Shallenberger Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAS FREEDOM FESTIVAL | $33,400 |
| TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FUNDET-FUNVAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL | $7,622 |
| OREM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ALTA CORNER CANYON MOUNTAIN BIKE | $2,500 |
| UC REGENTS | $2,000 |
| BRIDLE UP HOPE | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO | $1,500 |
| NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS TECH COLL | $1,000 |
| COMMON SENSE HEALTHCARE FOR UT | $1,000 |
| DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| CSU PUEBLO | $500 |
| SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY | $500 |
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 (FY17–17, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
34 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAmerica's Freedom Festival Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $201k · revenue +57%
- AAARCHES ACADEMY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $63k · revenue +12%
- TZTHE ZIONS BANCORPORATION FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $36k · revenue +807%
Funded once
- ZFZIONS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $42k
- UUVUone grant, 2019 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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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A Utah public charter school supported by state and federal funding.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 94 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.
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Shallenberger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shallenberger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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