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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.

$43M
Granted FY2024still arriving
317
Grants FY2024still arriving
38
States reached
$15M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$51MPhilanthropy$12MEducation$8.5MArts & Culture$4.9MInternational$3.6MHuman Services$2.3MEnvironment$1.9MHealth$1.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 317 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k44 grants · $303k
  • $10k–50k189 grants · $3.5M
  • $50k–250k68 grants · $5.6M
  • $250k+16 grants · $33M
$20,000
Median grant
38
States reached
$385M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Finding Home Foundation Inc: $10k → 8%Mercy House of Chambersburg: $50k → 9%A Breeze of Hope: $10k → 10%One Heart Worldwide: $45k → 11%Shawn Heroes for Life Inc: $25k → 13%Washington County Elder Care Inc: $15k → 14%Project Hope Foundation Inc: $45k → 18%Home Sweet Home: $10k → 11%Tennessee Resettlement Aid: $31k → 14%Korah Kids: $25k → 10%Helping Hands Ministries Inc: $87k → 13%Mission Pre-Born Inc: $37k → 16%Warrior Canine Connection: $21k → 8%Matthews United Methodist Church: $20k → 11%Navajo Power Home: $81k → 16%One Heart Worldwide: $25k → 11%Project Hope Foundation Inc: $45k → 18%Tennessee Resettlement Aid: $11k → 14%Foundation for Education for Generations: $50k → 6%Korah Kids Inc: $25k → 10%New Story Inc: $25k → 13%Helping Hands Ministries: $85k → 13%One Heart Worldwide: $25k → 11%Lake Travis Crisis Ministries: $15k → 10%Project Hope Foundation Inc: $45k → 18%Realize Impact: $26k → 10%At the Cross Ministries: $20k → 9%Foundation for Education for Generations: $50k → 6%Wounded Warrior Project: $28k → 14%Step by Step Family Support Center: $45k → 9%Rescue Fund: $60k → 10%International Health and Early Learning Programs: $15k → 12%SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $577k → 6%A Childs Hope Foundation: $103k → 8%Stand With Ukraine: $15k → 6%A Childs Hope Foundation: $37k → 8%New Freedom Project: $20k → 11%Koins for Kenya: $10k → 6%Belev Echad Inc: $18k → 17%Tammy Lynn Memorial Foundation Inc: $10k → 8%The Young Mens Christian Association of the Triang: $35k → 8%One Heart One Mind: $50k → 8%Tabithas Way: $25k → 8%The Young Mens Christian Association of the Triangle Area: $25k → 8%Rising Star Outreach Inc: $55k → 8%Crewe Endowment Foundation: $118k → 8%Rising Star Outreach Inc: $21k → 8%Provo Community Action Services: $19k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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WI
MI
NY
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OR
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IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
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CA
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CO
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VA
MD
DE
AZ
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TN
NC
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DC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$68M · 145 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

145
141

Total granted

$68M
$6.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+10%

Still filing today

77%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SH
    SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +305% · 78% of their budget
  • BR
    BH ROBERTS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +98% · 100% of their budget
  • OF
    OK Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • U5
    UNDER 5000 GRANTS
    one grant, 2021 · $832k
  • SH
    SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $577k · revenue -22%
  • WO
    WALK OF CHAMPIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -100% · 34% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
Utah Foundation

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.…

Public Benefit
3
Equality Utah Foundation

To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.

Civil Rights
4
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
5
Counterpart International Inc

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…

International
6
Open Technology Fund

The open technology fund aims to advance internet freedom globally by supporting the research, development, implementation, and maintenance of technologies that provide secure and uncensored access to the internet.

Arts & Culture
7
Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds Inc

Philanthropic collaborative focused on improving lives through just & inclusive systems change.

Philanthropy
8
World Vision Inc

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…

International
9
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
10
Ummah Relief International

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.

International
11
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
12
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

370 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

29
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
367/370
Grantees still filing
198/370
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS: $45,556,903 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY: $2,488,685 · OtherOla Kapukapuakea: $2,475,000 · Other+100 more: $13,541,784 · Other+100 moreRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $6,798,508 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Ch…OK Foundation: $1,335,500 · PhilanthropyOK FoundationAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $1,313,897 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOW…PRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC: $785,810 · PhilanthropyPRETTY IN PINK…WALK OF CHAMPIONS: $500,000 · Philanthropy+9 more: $848,829 · Philanthropy+9 moreOSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,322,500 · EducationUniversity Impact: $478,371 · EducationUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · EducationWashington and Lee University: $325,112 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $270,000 · EducationAmerican Heritage Schools Inc: $241,450 · EducationTexas A&M Foundation: $209,000 · Education+22 more: $1,523,279 · EducationMentors International: $581,086 · InternationalBecome More: $534,000 · InternationalCoafrica: $450,000 · InternationalAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $227,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE: $155,500 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $100,000 · InternationalLINK GLOBAL: $97,000 · International+10 more: $529,523 · InternationalSAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $577,264 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $172,000 · Human ServicesA CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $139,186 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesCREWE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $117,523 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION FOR GENERATIONS: $100,000 · Human ServicesONE HEART WORLDWIDE: $95,000 · Human ServicesMANUELITO NAVAJO CHILDRENS HOME: $81,063 · Human ServicesRising Star Outreach Inc: $75,500 · Human Services+11 more: $528,580 · Human ServicesTHE MCCANDLESS COLLECTION INC: $1,050,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER: $176,992 · Arts & CultureHarbor Fund: $112,500 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureCASTLE AIR MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $66,000 · Arts & CultureWILFORD WOODRUFF PAPERS FOUNDATION: $62,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $308,426 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC: $1,565,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND: $70,100 · Environment+2 more: $83,000 · Environment
Other$64,062,372Philanthropy$11,582,544Education$4,769,712International$2,674,109Human Services$2,021,116Arts & Culture$1,851,418Environment$1,718,100

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $6,798,508 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC: $1,565,000 over 3y, 78% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,381,820 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBH ROBERTS FOUNDATION: $1,350,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetOK Foundation: $1,335,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetOSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,322,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $1,313,897 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MCCANDLESS COLLECTION INC: $1,050,000 over 3y, 82% of budgetPRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC: $785,810 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetB MOORE FOUNDATION INC: $652,032 over 2y, 44% of budgetMentors International: $581,086 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $577,264 over 1y, 14% of budgetBecome More: $534,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetWALK OF CHAMPIONS: $500,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetUniversity Impact: $478,371 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCoafrica: $450,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC: $341,750 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $325,112 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL H ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $270,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPARTNERS FOR JUSTICE INC: $260,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $250,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Heritage Schools Inc: $241,450 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAcademy for Creating Enterprise: $227,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $225,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $209,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFUNDAMENTAL HEALTH: $207,319 over 2y, 56% of budgetPorch-Hillsborough: $200,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetUtah Sports Commission Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY FOUNDATION: $192,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetORCHARD AFRICA: $188,500 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetRAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND: $180,615 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $176,992 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC: $172,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE: $155,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CHARITIES INC: $155,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetChrist is the Light of the World - Tree of Life Foundation: $155,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBall State University Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetA CHILD'S HOPE FOUNDATION: $139,186 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPROJECT HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSHALOM CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ASSOCIATION: $120,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSummit Classical Christian School: $118,052 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCREWE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $117,523 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHarbor Fund: $112,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING INSTITUTE: $110,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Other Side Academy: $109,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOLLOW THE FLAG: $107,000 over 3y, 34% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Sorenson Legacy Found…Larry H Miller and Ga…Beesley Family Founda…George S and Dolores …The Ashton Family Fou…doTERRA Healing Hands…Community Trust of Ut…Bertin Family Foundat…The Miner FoundationWcf FoundationThe Pi Foundation Inc
The Community Foundation of UtahUT49.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization University Impact funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University Impact. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to University Impact?

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 482 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home