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Thomas A & Lucille B Horne 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.

$85k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$229kInternational$220kEducation$194kReligion$96kFood & Nutrition$74kHuman Services$61kRecreation & Sports$29kHousing & Shelter$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Women's Athletic$27,500
LDS PHILANTHROPIES$27,500
Primary Childrens Medical Cent$10,000
Shriner's Hospital$10,000
Utah Food Bank$5,000
Skyline High School$2,500
KUED$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%The Road Home: $6k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$872k · 13 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$872k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+34%

Still filing today

23%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

  • LP
    LDS PHILANTHROPIES
    7× · 2017–2025 · $220k
  • SL
    Salt Lake Education Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue -26%
  • CO
    Church of Jesus Christ
    3× · 2020–2023 · $95k

Funded once

  • ST
    SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -67%
  • HC
    Huntsman Cancer Institute
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • IF
    Intermountain Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Canyons School District Education Foundation

Canyons School District Education Foundation works in tandem with community and business partners to build support for public schools and to advance Canyons School Districts mission to help every student become college- and career-ready…

Education
2
Weber County School District Foundation

The mission of the Weber School Foundation is to raise and provide funds to enhance educational goals and opportunities for students.

Education
3
Utah Geological Foundation
4
Park City Education Foundation

Our mission is to fund and support educator-powered initiatives that inspire all Park City students to reach their academic and lifelong potential.

Education
5
Timpanogos Academy Foundation

To establish a school where each student gains the scholarly knowledge and skills vital to becoming a self-motivated, lifelong learner and to succeed in the rapidly evolving and complex world. This mission will be accomplished by using the…

Education
6
Salt Lake Arts Academy

To prepare students to become confident and creative builders of their future, equipped through the arts and academics to take responsibility for shaping their communities.

Education
7
University Hospital Foundation

Fundraising for healthcare to support patient care, medical education, and clinical research for University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics and other similar nonprofit organizations.

Philanthropy
8
Utah Valley University Foundation Inc

To assist Utah Valley University (UVU) in fulfilling its objectives: to aid and advance the services of UVU, to raise funds for student scholarships, and to raise funds for University program development.

Education
9
Salt Lake Academy of Music

To provide accessible, experiential music education and performance opportunities that help youth and adults develop musical skills, confidence, and community through collaborative learning.

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
Alpine School District Foundation

To provide funding for Alpine School District schools and students.

Education
12
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salt Lake Education Foundation 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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 31 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LDS PHILANTHROPIES — $219,500 · OtherLDS PHILANTHROPIESChurch of Jesus Christ — $95,000 · OtherChurch of Jesus ChristPrimary Childrens Medical Cent — $87,000 · OtherPrimary Childrens Medical CentShriner's Hospital — $83,000 · OtherShriner's HospitalUTAH FOOD BANK — $74,000 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $62,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH4th Street Clinic — $46,000 · Other4th Street ClinicST Vincent DePaul Center — $32,000 · Other+14 more — $132,500 · Other+14 moreSalt Lake Education Foundation — $98,225 · PhilanthropySalt Lake E…+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropyCARDEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationAmerican Heritage Schools Inc — $10,000 · EducationGranite Education Foundation — $2,500 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationTHE ROAD HOME — $6,000 · Human ServicesThe Ocean Foundation — $3,000 · EnvironmentHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH — $2,000 · Animals
Other$831,500Philanthropy$100,725Education$33,000Human Services$6,000Environment$3,000Animals$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation — $98,225 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $74,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCARDEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetSHELTER THE HOMELESS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heritage Schools Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNORS MANSION FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFriends of MS Charities — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGranite Education Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLa Mesa Arts Foundation Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 Salt Lake Education Foundation
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK
  • Who funds CARDEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SHELTER THE HOMELESS INC
  • Who funds American Heritage Schools Inc
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME
  • Who funds GOVERNORS MANSION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Ocean Foundation
  • Who funds Friends of MS Charities
  • Who funds Granite Education Foundation
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH
  • Who funds La Mesa Arts Foundation Inc

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.

Beesley Family FoundationUT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Beesley Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Thomas A & Lucille B Horne 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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