· Private foundation
Thomas and Candace Dee Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Club of SLC | $110,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $60,000 |
| The Children's Center | $50,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy of Utah | $25,000 |
| Wasatch Community Gardens | $25,000 |
| University of Utah - Dept of Medici | $25,000 |
| Intermountain Foundation | $15,000 |
| Lewis Clark College | $15,000 |
| Utah Clean Energy | $15,000 |
| Seager Memorial Clinic | $12,500 |
| Westminster College | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| John A Moran Eye Center | $5,000 |
| Bear Lake Watch | $5,000 |
| Peery's Egyptian Theater | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $105k) 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Thomas and Candace Dee Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in UT; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +75%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +92%
- BLBEAR LAKE WATCH5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- TATracy Aviary Botanical Gardensone grant, 2023 · $25k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF UTAHone grant, 2023 · $5k
- WRWOMENS RETREAT HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +40%
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.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
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…
Help homeless Utahns improve their health and quality of life by providing high-quality health care and support services.
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…
The Utah Public Health Association (UPHA) is a statewide membership organization dedicated to improving the health of Utah communities by supporting and representing the public health workforce. UPHA advances public health through…
To advance sustainable health care solutions for underserved utahns through better access, education, and public policy.
World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.
Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.
Improve utah's wetlands through hands-on conservation and community engagement
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Clean Energy Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bear Lake Watch. 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 29 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 WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds BEAR LAKE WATCH ↗
- Who funds SEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RETREAT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Scenic Utah ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CRISIS 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: Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · McCarthey Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Making a Difference Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 and Candace Dee Family 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.
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