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Wadman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $276k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST | $1,261,933 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES | $139,000 |
| WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY | $137,000 |
| ENABLE UTAH | $44,076 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| ORTHO CUP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AEROSPACE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $4,258 |
| MAKE A WISH | $2,500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $2,000 |
| HUNTSVILLE UTAH MARATHON | $2,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,000 |
| WEBER SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,750 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OGDEN VALLEY | $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 (FY19–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +13% since the first grant, against -34% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- AIAmerican Indian Services6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +8%
- SHSTELLA H OAKS FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $200k · revenue +182%
- HCHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $100k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $71k
- OCOGDEN CITY CORPone grant, 2019 · $40k
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.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
To provide resources and financial support to meet the unique need of the children and families served by the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind (USDB).
Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.
Supporting and promoting businesses in the weber county area.
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 81 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 American Indian Services ↗
- Who funds WEBER PATHWAYS ↗
- Who funds STELLA H OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENABLEUTAH INC ↗
- Who funds OGDEN VALLEY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Weber County School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN OGDEN INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RETREAT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WEBER-DAVIS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OGDEN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH 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 · The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Dr Wc Swanson Family Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · James E & Norma Kier Charitable Foundation · Donnell B & Elizabeth D Stewart Education Foundation · United Way of Northern Utah · The Miner Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Rechieve 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 Wadman 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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