· Public charity
Utah Families Foundation
Assist needy families in Utah
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $197,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $228,306 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,306 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k21 grants · $158k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Utah Food Bank | $23,500 |
| The Road Home | $16,000 |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation | $7,500 |
| Peace House | $7,500 |
| Box Elder Community Food Pant | $7,500 |
| Childrens Center | $7,500 |
| Friends of the Coalition | $7,500 |
| New Horizon Crisis Center | $7,500 |
| Seekhaven Family Crisis | $7,500 |
| South Valley Services | $7,500 |
| YWCA - Salt Lake | $7,500 |
| Center for Women & Children | $7,500 |
| Switchpoint Comm Resource Cen | $7,500 |
| Utah Youth Village | $7,500 |
| Community Action Service | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 86% 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 13% of Utah Families 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, 100% of the giving stays in UT; read by stated purpose it is 88% — 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.
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.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
Walk with people facing violence, offering safety, support, and hope as they heal and rebuild. with every step forward, we build stronger, more resilient communities.
Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.
Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.
To provide community-supported paths, for those who are vulnerable, to improve their lives and increase their self-reliance. we envision a community where everyone belongs, everyone has access to the services they need, and homelessness is…
S.a.f.e. house is a community based non-profit organization committed to stop abuse in the family environment by providing a comprehensive approach to end domestic violence that includes crisis intervention, safe shelter, counseling,…
A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.
The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.
The mission of crisis house is to respond immediately to stop the cycle of domestic violence and homelessness and to connect families and individuals to crucial resources that empower them to renew their lives.
The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ycc Family Crisis Center and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Coalition Fka Food & Care Coalition of Utah Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Peace House Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds IRON COUNTY CARE AND SHARE ↗
- Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds The Center for Women and Children in Crisis ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · The Miner Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Utah Medical Association Foundation · The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation · The Ashton Family Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family 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 Utah Families 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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