· Private foundation
The Will Ascend 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE FOR FERTILITY FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| PHILANTHROPIES | $70,000 |
| TOVONATESE CHARITIES | $15,000 |
| RISING STAR OUTREACH | $15,000 |
| STAND WITH UKRAINE | $15,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ACADEMY FOR CREATING ENTERPRISE | $10,000 |
| CAMP KESEM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| LYME DISEASE ORG | $5,000 |
| LIFTING LIVES | $5,000 |
| ENCIRCLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RESIDENT IMPACT PROJECT | $500 |
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 (FY21–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- THTHE HOPE FOR FERTILITY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +584% · 33% of their budget
- SWStand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love3× · 2022–2024 · $44k · revenue +56%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- BCBOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- LILiga Internationalone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -64%
- TRTHE ROAD HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +48%
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.
Homes 4 Homes brings safe housing to people in developing countries. We empower local leaders and construction teams to build homes for at risk members of their own communities. Safe and secure housing positively impacts multiple…
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
Medical care and education to under-served communities around the world.
HFTF serves orphaned and vulnerable children in Ethiopia, and its mission is to see every child thriving in a loving family. HFTF accomplishes this through five primary initiatives: in-country adoption training and placement, family…
To develope a ministry using the earthly work of Jesus Christ as a model and thereby seek the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of individuals in communities, esecially in developing countries by providing humanitarian…
Hope worldwide utah was created to serve refugee populations around the world. we seek to serve those in acute need and to offer opporunities for volunteers to join us in humanitarian trips.
AIRBRIDGE RELIEF plays a vital role in helping refugees and people in war-torn areas through planning, coordination and execution on the delivery and support of humanitarian aid. Our support and work involves helping in three major ways:…
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 Tovonatese Charities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 THE HOPE FOR FERTILITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Stand With Ukraine Inc dba To Ukraine With Love ↗
- Who funds Rising Star Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds Academy for Creating Enterprise ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYMEDISEASEORG ↗
- Who funds ITS NOT OK Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFTING LIVES ↗
- Who funds Liga International ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds THE RESIDENT IMPACT PROJECT ↗
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: University Impact · The Community Foundation of Utah · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Will Ascend 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.
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.