· Private foundation
The Vern and Marva Wolcott Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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: 58% of THE VERN AND MARVA WOLCOTT CHARITABLE 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $316k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $52,500 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| THE SANDY CLUB | $40,000 |
| SHRINER'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| GIANT STEPS WASATCH BEHAVIORAL HEAL | $25,000 |
| RISE UP SCHOOL OF DANCE | $25,000 |
| BIRCH CREEK SERVICE RANCH | $25,000 |
| HEALING NATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $20,205 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $20,000 |
| TRACY AVIARY | $16,000 |
| EYE CARE FOR KIDS | $15,000 |
| CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $238k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +93% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $378k · revenue +140%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $353k · revenue +97%
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK8× · 2018–2025 · $236k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- GSGIANT STEPS AUTISM PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TGTHE GIVING HOUSEone grant, 2022 · $20k
- IRIMAGE REBORN INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +20%
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.
To provide resources and financial support to meet the unique need of the children and families served by the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind (USDB).
Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…
To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.
The Utah Medical Association is a professional resource for member physicians providing educational opportunities and dissemination of medical knowledge and practices.
We inspire and transform students with learning differences into confident, independent, and successful readers. We collaborate with colleagues and members of the community for the welfare and value of our diverse learners.
Public charter school educating Utah students.
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…
To ensure utah families have the freedom and access to choose the best fit for their childs education.
World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Road Home. 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 21 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 15% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 47 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.
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BIRCH CREEK SERVICE RANCH ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE SANDY CLUB ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL MISSIONS GROUP ↗
- Who funds RISE UP SCHOOL OF DANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
- Who funds EYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah ↗
- Who funds Danielle Byron Henry Migraine Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds Davis Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds STAND4KIND ↗
- Who funds IMAGE REBORN INC ↗
- Who funds Utah Blues Society ↗
- Who funds WEILENMANN SCHOOL OF DISCOVERY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
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 · The Community Foundation of Utah · Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillips · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · B W Bastian Foundation · Making a Difference Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Bill and Pat Child Family 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 Vern and Marva Wolcott Charitable 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.