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The Vern and Marva Wolcott Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$498k
Granted FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$902kYouth Development$532kHuman Services$443kEducation$402kFood & Nutrition$236kArts & Culture$97kInternational$90kAnimals$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $316k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $153k
$16,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$52,500
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE$50,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION$50,000
THE SANDY CLUB$40,000
RISE UP SCHOOL OF DANCE$25,000
HEALING NATION$25,000
GIANT STEPS WASATCH BEHAVIORAL HEAL$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
BIRCH CREEK SERVICE RANCH$25,000
SHRINER'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
UTAH FOOD BANK$20,205
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$20,000
TRACY AVIARY$16,000
CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER$15,000
EYE CARE FOR KIDS$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $15k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $15k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $10k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $10k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $8k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $5k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $3k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $40k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $25k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $25k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $25k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $20k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $3k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $2k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $1k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 32 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
13

Total granted

$3.2M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+20%

Still filing today

56%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $378k · revenue +140%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $353k · revenue +97%
  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    8× · 2018–2025 · $236k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • GS
    GIANT STEPS AUTISM PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • TG
    THE GIVING HOUSE
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • IR
    IMAGE REBORN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +20%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind Education Foundation

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).

Education
2
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
3
Utah Arts Academy

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'…

Education
4
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

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…

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5
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

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6
Midwives College of Utah

Educate and train midwives to provide safe, professional, affordable and personal maternity and general health care.

Education
7
Utah Medical Association

The Utah Medical Association is a professional resource for member physicians providing educational opportunities and dissemination of medical knowledge and practices.

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8
Dyslexia Center of Utah New Heights Inc

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.

Education
9
The Ranches Academy Incorporated

Public charter school educating Utah students.

Education
10
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
11
Utah Education Fits All

To ensure utah families have the freedom and access to choose the best fit for their childs education.

Education
12
Utah World Trade Center

World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $370,000 · OtherSALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGEMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC: $353,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INCUTAH FOOD BANK: $236,482 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $207,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGIANT STEPS WASATCH BEHAVIORAL HEAL: $125,000 · OtherGIANT STEPS WASATCH BEHAVIORAL HEALIndividual grant recipient: $80,400 · Other+21 more: $307,600 · Other+21 moreRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $377,500 · HealthRonald McDonald House …SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $179,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR…EYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah: $40,000 · HealthEYE CARE FOR KIDS - Ut…Danielle Byron Henry Migraine Foundation: $40,000 · HealthDanielle Byron Henry M…+2 more: $8,700 · HealthTHE SANDY CLUB: $140,000 · Human ServicesCrossroads Urban Center: $65,500 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME: $32,000 · Human ServicesBIRCH CREEK SERVICE RANCH: $185,000 · Youth DevelopmentRISE UP SCHOOL OF DANCE: $90,000 · Arts & CultureUtah Blues Society: $5,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL MISSIONS GROUP: $90,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $83,000 · AnimalsSTAND4KIND: $10,400 · EducationWEILENMANN SCHOOL OF DISCOVERY: $3,500 · EducationCOLUMBUS ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $2,500 · Education+1 more: $500 · Education
Other$1,879,482Health$645,200Human Services$237,500Youth Development$185,000Arts & Culture$96,500International$90,000Animals$83,000Education$16,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $377,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC: $353,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $236,482 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBIRCH CREEK SERVICE RANCH: $185,000 over 9y, 17% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $179,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANDY CLUB: $140,000 over 7y, 9.9% of budgetRISE UP SCHOOL OF DANCE: $90,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetGLOBAL MISSIONS GROUP: $90,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $83,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $65,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetEYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah: $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDanielle Byron Henry Migraine Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $32,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDavis Education Foundation: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTAND4KIND: $10,400 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetIMAGE REBORN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUtah Blues Society: $5,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetWEILENMANN SCHOOL OF DISCOVERY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUtah International Charter School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 RISE UP SCHOOL OF DANCE ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL MISSIONS GROUP ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Found…George S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…Castle Foundation Co …Henry W & Leslie M Es…Ihc Health Services I…Larry H Miller and Ga…Kennecott Utah Copper…B W Bastian FoundationMaking a Difference F…Dominion Energy Chari…Bill and Pat Child Fa…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT21.6× affinity8 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 · 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Vern and Marva Wolcott Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vern and Marva Wolcott Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home