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University Impact
University Impact (ui) was founded to build an ecosystem that can accelerate solving the world's social and environmental problems.
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 $10k44 grants · $303k
- $10k–50k189 grants · $3.5M
- $50k–250k68 grants · $5.6M
- $250k+16 grants · $33M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints | $15,397,118 |
| Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc | $5,857,642 |
| Ola Kapukapuakea | $2,475,000 |
| Brigham Young University | $1,984,200 |
| American Endowment Foundation | $1,313,897 |
| Ok Foundation | $1,228,000 |
| Southern Highlands Reserve Inc | $700,000 |
| McCandless Collection Inc | $650,000 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | $602,932 |
| Become More | $534,000 |
| Coafrica | $450,000 |
| B H Roberts Foundation | $400,000 |
| Acts Fellowship Church | $385,000 |
| International Restoration Church | $320,000 |
| B Moore Foundation Inc | $276,116 |
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, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
145 repeat relationships — 125 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 179 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M 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
- SHSOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +305% · 78% of their budget
- BRBH ROBERTS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +98% · 100% of their budget
- OFOK Foundation2× · 2023–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +19%
Funded once
- U5UNDER 5000 GRANTSone grant, 2021 · $832k
- SHSAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTERone grant, 2021 · $577k · revenue -22%
- WOWALK OF CHAMPIONSone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -100% · 34% of their budget
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.
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Ummah relief international is a dedicated grassroots relief organization providing humanitarian services to bring help and hope to thousands of victims of natural and human disasters with quick and targeted action.
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…
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 Legends Are Born Everyday Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
370 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 370 of the 482 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds BH ROBERTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OK Foundation ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MCCANDLESS COLLECTION INC ↗
- Who funds PRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds B MOORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mentors International ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Become More ↗
- Who funds WALK OF CHAMPIONS ↗
- Who funds University Impact ↗
- Who funds Coafrica ↗
- Who funds UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds American Heritage Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Academy for Creating Enterprise ↗
- Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds FUNDAMENTAL HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ANNA C MACASKILL SCHWAB AND DWIGHT L SCHWAB ↗
- Who funds Porch-Hillsborough ↗
- Who funds Utah Sports Commission Foundation ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Utah · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation · Community Trust of Utah · Bertin Family Foundation · The Miner Foundation · Wcf Foundation · The Pi 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 University Impact 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.
- Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
- Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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Find your warmest path to University Impact through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.