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Usana Kids Eat

USANA Kids Eat provides the framework to combat hunger, remove meal uncertainty, and challenge the community to join our cause.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,160,019 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,150,019 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$978k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Thanksgiving Heros$10,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Thanksgiving Heros: $10k → 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.
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 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
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
2
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
3
Utah Arts Academy

Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…

Education
4
Venture Academy

Inspire the rising generation to reach the heights of their potential, ignite their curiosity to venture into challenging new learning experiences, and through service, empower them to be leaders who are committed to family and community…

Education
5
Utah Education Fits All

To ensure utah families have the freedom and access to choose the best fit for their childs education.

Education
6
Terra Academy

Terra academy focuses on each student as a "unique" whole person in a global society by providing individualized instruction in a community learning model through educational experiences including a broad range of curricular options and…

Education
7
Park City Day School

Park city day school educates children from preschool to 8th grade with a mission to prepare and inspire our students to lead great and giving lives.

Education
8
Entheos Academy

Inspire the rising generation to reach the heights of their potential, ignite their curiosity to venture into challenging new learning experiences, and empower them to be leaders through service, who are committed to a family and…

Education
9
Leadership Academy of Utah

To prepare promising students for meaningful lives as principled leaders.

Education
10
Utah International Charter School

To provide a rigorous and relevant education for secondary students interested in global perspectives, including recently arrived immigrants, refugees, and native English speakers.

Education
11
Utah Charter Academies Inc

To ensure each student achieves maximum academic success by teaching skills to mastery levels, imparting valuable knowledge, transmitting common culture that binds us as a nation, and exposing children to supreme examples of artistic and…

Education
12
The Ranches Academy Incorporated

Public charter school educating Utah students.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salt Lake; the most unlike its peers is Thanksgiving Heroes Slc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

11 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHANKSGIVING HEROES SLC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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.

Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family FoundationUT17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Main · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Usana True Health Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Making a Difference Foundation · American Express Foundation

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 Usana Kids Eat funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Usana Kids Eat. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Usana Kids Eat?

    Find your warmest path to Usana Kids Eat 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 1 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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