· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $164k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASANTE FOUNDATION | $45,150 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| UNITED WE PLEDGE | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC | $24,000 |
| DOCTOR'S VOLUNTEER CLINIC | $15,000 |
| WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| UTAH COALITION AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY | $5,000 |
| DIXIE POWER KITE FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| INT'L CENTER FOR LAW & RELIGION STUDIES | $5,000 |
| UTAH TECH UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN LANDS COUNCIL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER | $2,500 |
| ST GEORGE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RARise and Rebuild Foundation3× · 2018–2021 · $110k · revenue +15%
- DVDOCTORS' VOLUNTEER CLINIC8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +141%
- FOFRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $78k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- DDXATCone grant, 2017 · $160k
- TCTUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +23%
- ZNZIONS NATIONAL PARK FOREVER PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $34k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Support various performing arts in utah.
Music & arts performances
The mission of the timpanogos arts foundation is to educate, enrich, and inspire by provising leadership and encoragement for artistic and cultural excellence, which enhances the quality of life for the people of american fork and…
The Utah Chamber Artists (UCA) is a world renowned, not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 to provide audiences with an artistic force that provides a wide variety of music of the highest caliber, presented in the finest manner. UCA…
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
Encourage Cultural Diversity
To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Leadership Institute of Utah and the most unlike its peers is Asante Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 50 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 Rise and Rebuild Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOCTORS' VOLUNTEER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SWITCHPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds United We Pledge ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE MUSICAL THEATER ↗
- Who funds TUACAHN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ASANTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KAYENTA ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UTAH COALITION AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MAJOR BRENT TAYLOR LEADERSHIP LEGAC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENS JUSTICE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Women's Leadership Institute of Utah ↗
- Who funds The Utah Tech University Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LANDS COUNCIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOVE CENTER INC ↗
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 · 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
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 Wade Family 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.