· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| STAND WITH UKRAINE | $15,000 |
| ACADEMY FOR CREATING ENTERPRISE | $10,000 |
| CAMP KESEM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INTERMOUNTAIN FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| LIFTING LIVES | $5,000 |
| ENCIRCLE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LYME DISEASE ORG | $5,000 |
| RESIDENT IMPACT PROJECT | $500 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
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 +49% since the first grant, against +48% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- LILiga Internationalone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -64%
- BCBOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TRTHE ROAD HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +48%
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.
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:…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 23 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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Will Ascend Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Will Ascend Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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