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Wade Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$201k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$45,150
Organizations funded a year
8 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$46k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Wade Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$201k35%
FY202318$249k50%
FY202213$110k54%
FY202110$132k40%
FY20209$63k44%
FY20198$114k13%
FY20188$72k63%
FY201713$182kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$278kHealth$205kArts & Culture$163kFood & Nutrition$122kCivil Rights$90kHuman Services$82kEnvironment$77kPhilanthropy$49kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of Wade Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rise and Rebuild Foundation$110,00034%
Doctors' Volunteer Clinic$90,00083%
Friends of Switchpoint Inc$78,30030%
United We Pledge$75,00022%
The Washington County School District Foundation$70,80042%
St George Musical Theater$56,00031%
Tuacahn Center for the Arts$50,00010%
Asante Foundation$45,150135%
Southern Virginia University$25,00010%
St George Childrens Museum$21,18461%
Kayenta Arts Foundation$20,0003n/a
Utah Coalition Against Pornography$12,000310%
Utah Food Bank$11,50030%
Grand Canyon Conservancy$10,00010%
Major Brent Taylor Leadership Legac$10,00013%
Friends of the Childrens Justice Center of Washington County$8,40042%
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints$5,0001n/a
Women's Leadership Institute of Utah$5,00011%
Utah Tech University$4,0001n/a
Leadership Dixie Inc$3,5002n/a
The Utah Tech University Foundation$2,5001n/a
American Lands Council Foundation$2,500116%
St George Kiwanis Foundation$2,5005n/a
Dove Center Inc$2,00020%
Encore Performing Arts$1,00010%
Dixie Watercolor Society$5001n/a
Southwest Symphony Orchestra Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($400k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Wade Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRise and Rebuild Foundation: $110,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetDoctors' Volunteer Clinic: $90,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetFriends of Switchpoint Inc: $78,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUnited We Pledge: $75,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetThe Washington County School District Foundation: $70,800 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSt George Musical Theater: $56,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTuacahn Center for the Arts: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAsante Foundation: $45,150 over 1y, 35% of budgetSouthern Virginia University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt George Childrens Museum: $21,184 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetUtah Coalition Against Pornography: $12,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetUtah Food Bank: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon Conservancy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMajor Brent Taylor Leadership Legac: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFriends of the Childrens Justice Center of Washington County: $8,400 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetWomen's Leadership Institute of Utah: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Lands Council Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 16% of budgetDove Center Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEncore Performing Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSouthwest Symphony Orchestra Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Donald D & Elaine F Davis Trust · Beesley Family Foundation · The Miner Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · The Community Foundation of Utah · Daniels Fund · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

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About Wade Family Foundation

How much does Wade Family Foundation give?
Wade Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $200,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Wade Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (25%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are Wade Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rise and Rebuild Foundation ($110k), Doctors' Volunteer Clinic ($90k), Friends of Switchpoint Inc ($78k).
Does Wade Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Wade Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wade Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Donald D & Elaine F Davis Trust.
Where is Wade Family Foundation based?
Wade Family Foundation is based in UT.

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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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