· 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.
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 $10k27 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $41,100 |
| LDS CHURCH | $34,039 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,400 |
| MENTORS INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| LIVE YOUR DREAM FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| MRF | $16,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $10,800 |
| SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HUMANITARIAN EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH | $9,930 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,490 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,953 |
| BYU | $7,400 |
| BOUNTIFUL FOOD PANTRY | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 23% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 31 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MIMentors International8× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +261%
- OROUR RESCUE6× · 2017–2023 · $67k · revenue +180%
- AVASPEN VIEW ACADEMY4× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $58k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $26k
- AAAGING AND FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
To create transformative and globally connected learning experiences, preparing orphaned and vulnerable children for a lifetime of influence.
The Center for the Future of Learning empowers a vibrant learning ecosystem connecting communities to create future-focused solutions for today while sharing effective practices to advance tomorrow. The Center for the Future of Learning…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
KidZ at Heart International is a global Christian community that trains, partners with, and mobilizes networks of leaders to help children fall deeply in love with Jesus. We train and partner with churches and families to successfully…
Human Rights for Kids is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights for children. We use an integrated, multi-faceted approach which consists of research & public education, coalition…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Child Family Health International is dedicated to transformative Global Health Education programs, research, and thought leadership emphasizing community leadership, global citizenship, and ethical engagement.
The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) conducts and disseminates independent, high-quality research to improve learning for all children. A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, LPI connects policymakers and stakeholders at the local, state,…
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
Building bright futures through literacy, digital skills, math, and conversation.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 104 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 · 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Span Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Span Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Child Rescue Coalition Inc: 20% of income from government
How this is measured
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