How much does The Span Foundation give?

The Span Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $285,315 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Span Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (23%), Community Improvement (9%), Education (9%).

Who are The Span Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mentors International ($94k), Our Rescue ($67k), Utah State University ($44k).

Does The Span Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Span Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Span Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation, Joseph and Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foun.

Where is The Span Foundation based?

The Span Foundation is based in UT.

Foundation Dossiers

Utah · Private foundation

The Span 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.

$285k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 37
Grants FY2024: 36
Organizations funded FY2023: 14%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $41,100
Organizations funded a year: 29 to 43; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 11
Total assets, FY2024: $7.6M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Span Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	37	$285k	24%
FY2023	36	$310k	14%
FY2022	38	$269k	37%
FY2021	29	$289k	21%
FY2020	31	$298k	3%
FY2019	43	$285k	42%
FY2018	36	$258k	56%
FY2017	31	$260k	n/a

80% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$511kCommunity Improvement$209kEducation$203kArts & Culture$180kCivil Rights$177kInternational$167kPhilanthropy$55kHuman Services$44kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mentors International	$94,263	8	1%
Our Rescue	$67,375	6	0%
Utah State University	$43,753	7	n/a
Primary Children's Cancer	$28,983	5	n/a
Utah Valley University	$26,000	5	n/a
Aspen View Academy	$24,550	4	n/a
Southern Virginia University	$21,000	3	0%
The Interpreter Foundation	$21,000	3	1%
Ensign College	$20,000	2	n/a
University of Utah	$17,838	3	n/a

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All grantees of The Span Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mentors International	$94,263	8	1%
Our Rescue	$67,375	6	0%
Utah State University	$43,753	7	n/a
Primary Children's Cancer	$28,983	5	n/a
Utah Valley University	$26,000	5	n/a
Aspen View Academy	$24,550	4	n/a
Southern Virginia University	$21,000	3	0%
The Interpreter Foundation	$21,000	3	1%
Ensign College	$20,000	2	n/a
University of Utah	$17,838	3	n/a
Arise Project for Humanity	$15,000	5	2%
Volunteers for Israel Inc	$10,000	1	14%
Weber State University	$9,250	4	n/a
Bridge of Love	$5,500	2	7%
Friends of Liahona Inc	$5,000	2	2%
PHASE Alliance	$5,000	1	0%
Parker Theatre of the Arts	$5,000	3	0%
Malouf Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Utah Food Bank	$4,800	7	0%
Alliance Defending Freedom	$4,750	6	0%
Red Barn Farms	$4,500	2	0%
Academy for Creating Enterprise	$4,000	2	0%
Child Rescue Coalition Inc	$3,900	2	0%
Salt Lake City Mission	$3,750	6	n/a
West Plains Arts Academy	$3,000	3	n/a
National Constitution Center	$3,000	2	0%
Khan Academy Inc	$2,563	1	0%
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep	$2,510	2	0%
Inspire Choral Arts	$2,500	2	n/a
Breakthrough T1d	$2,000	1	0%
One Heart Bulgaria Corporation	$1,500	1	1%
National Center for Constitutional Studies (Nccs)	$1,500	2	n/a
Davis Education Foundation	$1,400	1	0%
Believe in Haiti	$1,368	1	1%
Nebo Education Foundation	$1,300	1	0%
Cato Institute	$1,250	3	0%
Crossroads Urban Center	$1,000	1	0%
The Fistula Foundation	$1,000	2	0%
Sutherland Institute	$500	1	0%
Crossroads of the West Council Inc Boy Scouts of America 590	$375	2	0%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc	$250	1	0%
St George Childrens Museum	$175	2	0%
Treehouse Children's Museum	$110	1	0%
CaringBridge	$50	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Span Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT31.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Joseph and Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foun · University Impact · The Community Foundation of Utah · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · My Brother's Keeper Foundation · Bertin Family Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · Steven J & Patricia Andersen Foundation · The Susan Ileene Wirthlin 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.

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About The Span Foundation

How much does The Span Foundation give?: The Span Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $285,315 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Span Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (23%), Community Improvement (9%), Education (9%).
Who are The Span Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mentors International ($94k), Our Rescue ($67k), Utah State University ($44k).
Does The Span Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Span Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Span Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation, Joseph and Kathleen Sorenson Legacy Foun.
Where is The Span Foundation based?: The Span Foundation is based in UT.