· Private foundation
W Mack & Julia S Watkins Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIONEER THEATER COMPANY | $20,000 |
| CORP OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHURC | $20,000 |
| U OF U SCHOOL MUSIC | $20,000 |
| BALLET WEST | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S CENTER | $10,000 |
| DAVIS HIGH SCHOOL | $5,900 |
| BOUNTIFUL FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| INTERMOUNTAIN SUZUKI STRING INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BWBALLET WEST6× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +71%
- AIAmerican Indian Services5× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +10%
- USUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA4× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- UOU OF U COLLEGE OF FINE ARTSone grant, 2020 · $20k
- TRTHE ROAD HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +57%
- PCPRIMARY CHILDRENS INTL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
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'…
To educate and inspire young musicians through exceptional ensemble training and performance opportunities in classical music.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
Our mission is to engage with communities and catalyze private, public, and philanthropic partnerships to remedy opportunity gaps in economic opportunity, education, health, and housing in Utah.
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art believes in the power of the art of our time. Through programming, advocacy, and collaboration, we work with artists and communities to build a better world.
We inspire and transform students with learning differences into confident, independent, and successful readers. We collaborate with colleagues and members of the community for the welfare and value of our diverse learners.
To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
The mission of Art Access is to build a diverse and inclusive arts community in Utah through creative opportunities for people with disabilities, and other marginalized communities, and through public engagement with the arts.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
We are dedicated to empowering the Latino community in Utah to recognize and achieve their own potential and become a positive force for change in the larger community.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds American Indian Services ↗
- Who funds Davis Technical College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE MUNDI PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds ZION CANYON MESA ↗
- Who funds Davis Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Utah Parent Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INTERMOUNTAIN SUZUKI STRING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MONGOL ECOLOGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Simmons Family Foundation · Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation · Wadman Foundation · The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization W Mack & Julia S Watkins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Mack & Julia S Watkins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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