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Val A Browning Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Val A Browning Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2021
57
Grants FY2021
11
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Val A Browning Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Greater Horizons, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Val A Browning Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 43 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

39
’20
43
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$4.1MEducation$712kArts & Culture$491kHealth$469kEnvironment$234kRecreation & Sports$201kHuman Services$134kAnimals$122kOther$0
02FY2021 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k13 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $797k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $501k
$15,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation$124,671
Treatment Advocacy Center$89,706
Individual grant recipient$71,650
The American Friends of the Almeida Theatre Inc$60,000
University of Utah$52,448
Weber State University$52,366
Living With Wolves$50,000
The Community Library$43,639
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley$41,728
Blaine County Seniors Council Inc dba The Senior Connection$40,729
University of Utah$39,994
St Luke's Wood Rvier Foundation$39,994
Salmon & Trout Conservation UK$39,150
Onstage Ogden$30,093
Golden Rule Project$30,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC DBA THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $44k → 7%SEEKHAVEN INC: $35k → 11%Blaine County Seniors Council Inc dba The Senior Connection: $41k → 7%FRIENDS OF MOAB CANYONLANDS HEALKTH CARE: $15k → 11%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY: $48k → 7%Friends of Moab Canyonlands Health Care: $15k → 11%Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley: $42k → 7%The Inn Between: $30k → 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

WA
ID
NY
MA
NV
CA
UT
MO
KY
VA
LA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 64% of Val A Browning Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Val A Browning Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 42 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
5

Total granted

$2.4M
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+125%

Still filing today

79%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • TA
    TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $186k · revenue +45%
  • SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $150k · revenue +78%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ALMEIDA THEATRE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $120k · revenue +57% · 47% of their budget

Funded once

  • US
    UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • SF
    SEEKHAVEN FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +72%
  • TA
    THE ADVOCATES
    one grant, 2020 · $19k
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
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
3
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Glen Canyon Conservancy

As the official nonprofit partner of glen canyon national recreation area and rainbow bridge national monument and a partner of bureau of land management in southern utah and southwestern colorado, glen canyon conservancy is dedicated to…

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5
Utah State Fair Corporation

The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.

Recreation & Sports
6
Stewardship Utah Foundation

The mission of the stewardship utah foundation is to advocate for the improvement of the environment in utah.

Human Services
7
Idaho Foundation for Parks and Lands

To preserve and protect, for public benefit, open space lands and unique natural, scenic settings throughout the state of idaho utilizing various flexible conservation methods.

Environment
8
Utah Open Lands Conservation Association Inc

Utah Open Lands' mission is to preserve and protect open space, in perpetuity, in order to maintain Utah's natural heritage and quality of life for present and future generations. The purpose of Utah Open Lands is to permanently protect…

Environment
9
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
10
Sci Utah Foundation

To ensure the future of wildlife through conservation, education and hunting.

Animals
11
Friends of the Owyhee

Friends of the owyhee exists to promote conservation advocacy, stewardship, and recreation in the owyhee region.

Environment
12
Utah Film Center

Utah film center inspires and engages diverse audiences to initiate conversation and community building through curated film exhibition, educational programs, and artist support.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Arches&Canyonlands Parks Bates Wilson Legacy Fund; the most unlike its peers is Healing Minds Nola. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 59 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
37/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Greater Horizons: $5,628,731 · PhilanthropyGreater Horizons+3 more: $45,150 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $234,780 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $149,671 · OtherSUN VALLEY SKI EDUC…Individual grant recipient: $121,300 · OtherIndividual grant re…THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $121,017 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY LIBRA…WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $108,366 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERS…SALMON & TROUT CONSERVATION UK: $88,800 · OtherSALMON & TROUT CONS…ONSTAGE OGDEN: $86,281 · OtherONSTAGE OGDENGOLDEN RULE PROJECT: $60,000 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherLIVING RIVERS: $50,000 · OtherTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC: $85,000 · OtherTHE GROUNDTRUTH PRO…+17 more: $271,099 · Other+17 moreTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $185,806 · HealthST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $90,569 · HealthSchizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America: $52,000 · Health+2 more: $14,937 · HealthTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ALMEIDA THEATRE INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureMOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureCANYONLANDS FIELD INSTITUTE INC: $23,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $16,920 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MILL: $14,943 · Arts & CultureKimball Art Center: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Moab Folk Festival: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC: $90,104 · Human ServicesBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $84,267 · Human ServicesSEEKHAVEN FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE INN BETWEEN: $30,000 · Human ServicesMOAB HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $48,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL FRIENDS OF THE LONDON LIBRARY INC: $30,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OXFORD INC: $30,000 · EducationTHE MAGDALENE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationBattle Point Astronomical Association: $10,000 · EducationPARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · EducationLIVING WITH WOLVES LTD: $101,585 · AnimalsGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $27,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $20,318 · Animals
Philanthropy$5,673,881Other$1,426,314Health$343,312Arts & Culture$274,863Human Services$269,371Education$158,000Animals$148,903

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 budgetGreater Horizons: $5,628,731 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER: $185,806 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $149,671 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ALMEIDA THEATRE INC: $120,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetLIVING WITH WOLVES LTD: $101,585 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC: $90,569 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC: $90,104 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetONSTAGE OGDEN: $86,281 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $84,267 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $60,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSchizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America: $52,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetLIVING RIVERS: $50,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $48,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSEEKHAVEN FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC: $35,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSawtooth Interpretive and Historical Association: $35,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FRIENDS OF THE LONDON LIBRARY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OXFORD INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWEBER PATHWAYS: $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE MAGDALENE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMOAB HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetSAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC: $29,784 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $27,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCANYONLANDS FIELD INSTITUTE INC: $23,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $20,318 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION STATION FOUNDATION: $19,675 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $16,920 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND: $15,287 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSCIENCE MILL: $14,943 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBainbridge Island Sportsmens Club: $11,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetHEALING MINDS NOLA: $10,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKimball Art Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of the Moab Folk Festival: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetYOUTH GARDEN PROJECT: $5,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMARIE OSBORNE-SALMON RIVER CLINIC ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC: $5,150 over 1y, 34% of budgetOGDEN SURGICAL SOCIETY: $4,937 over 2y, 1.6% 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.

Greater HorizonsGeorge S and Dolores …Sorenson Legacy Found…Palladium FoundationLawrence & Janet Dee …Willard L Eccles Char…Dominion Energy Chari…The May Family Founda…Nebeker Family Founda…Janet Q Lawson Founda…Alpenglow FoundationLarry H Miller and Ga…
Greater HorizonsMO44.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Horizons · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Palladium Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The May Family Foundation · Nebeker Family Foundation · Janet Q Lawson Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family 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 Val A Browning Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Val A Browning Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Val A Browning Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Val A Browning Charitable Foundation 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 59 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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