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Wcf 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.8MCommunity Improvement$1.2MHealth$1.2MPhilanthropy$764kSocial Science$725kEmployment$707kInternational$396kArts & Culture$393kOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $138k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $343k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $909k
$5,800
Median grant
8
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEM C GARDNER POLICY INSTITUTE$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$200,000
NEUROWORX$129,560
Individual grant recipient$114,705
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF UTAH$100,000
UNITED WAY OF SALT LAKE$60,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF UTAH INC$55,000
SALT LAKE CHAMBER FOUNDATION$50,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$45,000
LOVELAND LIVING PLANET AQUARIUM$35,000
GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION$30,000
WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF UTAH$25,000
CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF UTAH$25,000
KOSTOPULOS DREAM FOUNDATION$20,000
HEFFERNAN FOUNDATION$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $361k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WARRIOR RIZEN FOUNDATION: $5k → 4%FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $10k → 9%A PRECIOUS CHILD: $5k → 5%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $5k → 13%CHARITY CULTURAL SERVICES CENTER: $10k → 10%WARREN VILLAGE: $5k → 12%CHARITY CULTURAL SERVICES CENTER: $5k → 10%CHARITY CULTURAL SERVICES CENTER: $5k → 10%WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF UTAH: $25k → 8%WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF UTAH: $25k → 8%WOMENS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE OF UTAH: $25k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $5k → 8%UTAH LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 8%UTAH LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13k → 8%UTAH LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13k → 8%UTAH LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 8%UTAH LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $10k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $10k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $10k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $10k → 8%THE SANDY CLUB: $5k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $10k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $5k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $5k → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $5k → 8%ROAD HOME: $5k → 8%ROAD HOME: $3k → 8%ROAD HOME: $2k → 8%UTAH PRIDE CENTER: $5k → 8%CARS 4 KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%UTAH PRIDE CENTER: $5k → 8%CARS 4 KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%CARS 4 KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $3k → 8%SUAZO BUSINESS CENTER: $10k → 8%SUAZO BUSINESS CENTER: $10k → 8%SUAZO BUSINESS CENTER: $10k → 8%SUAZO BUSINESS CENTER: $8k → 8%SUAZO BUSINESS CENTER: $8k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 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

ID
IL
NY
NV
IA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
AZ
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 15% of Wcf Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in UT; by stated purpose, 76%.

Wcf Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.9% 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 67 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

67 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
48

Total granted

$7.2M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+29%

Still filing today

76%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UV
    UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +5%
  • SL
    Salt Lake Chamber Foundation
    2× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +135% · 65% of their budget
  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho
    4× · 2020–2024 · $393k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • SO
    STATE OF UTAH
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • HC
    HALE CENTER FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +48%
  • HC
    HALE CENTRE THEATRE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +14%
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
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
3
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
University of Utah Foundation

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

Philanthropy
5
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
6
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

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7
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
9
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
10
Utah Humanities Council

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
12
The Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc; the most unlike its peers is Odyssey Dance Theatre. 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

100 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. 100 of the 140 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/100
Grantees still filing
70/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STATE OF UTAH: $1,000,000 · OtherSTATE OF UTAHKEM C GARDNER POLICY INSTITUTE: $705,000 · OtherKEM C GARDNER POLICY INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $565,830 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $492,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHROCKY MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH: $311,900 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR OCCUPATIONAL HEALTHJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $189,260 · Other+85 more: $1,796,576 · Other+85 moreUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,355,000 · EducationUTAH VALLEY UNIVER…THE GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationTHE GOOD SAMARITAN…SILICON SLOPES: $60,000 · Education+5 more: $66,800 · EducationUTAH'S PROMISE: $366,017 · PhilanthropyUTAH'S PRO…The Community Foundation of Utah: $300,000 · PhilanthropyThe Commun…University Hospital Foundation: $90,000 · PhilanthropyUniversity…Warrior Rising: $50,000 · PhilanthropyWarrior Ri…+4 more: $47,500 · Philanthropy+4 moreSalt Lake Chamber Foundation: $550,000 · EmploymentTHE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC: $230,836 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $199,726 · HealthCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthSaprea: $17,500 · Health+7 more: $50,000 · HealthUplift Utah Families Foundation dba Uplift Families Foundation: $85,000 · Human ServicesWomen's Leadership Institute of Utah: $75,000 · Human ServicesUTAH LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $50,000 · Human ServicesSUAZO BUSINESS CENTER: $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE SANDY CLUB: $45,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $30,000 · Human ServicesTURN Community Services Inc: $26,932 · Human ServicesCharity Cultural Services Center: $20,000 · Human Services+8 more: $70,941 · Human ServicesJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $393,019 · International+3 more: $2,590 · International
Other$5,061,316Education$1,571,800Philanthropy$853,517Employment$550,000Health$518,062Human Services$512,873International$395,609

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 budgetUTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,355,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSalt Lake Chamber Foundation: $550,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho: $393,019 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE: $366,017 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC: $230,836 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $199,726 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHALE CENTER FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND EDUCATION: $150,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation: $110,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHALE CENTRE THEATRE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetUniversity Hospital Foundation: $90,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $89,690 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSan Juan Foundation: $89,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetUplift Utah Families Foundation dba Uplift Families Foundation: $85,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetWomen's Leadership Institute of Utah: $75,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetTHE LIVING PLANET INC: $69,450 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $65,000 over 4y, 72% of budgetKEN GARFF FOR GOOD: $62,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSILICON SLOPES: $60,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUTAH COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $50,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE DAYS OF '47 INC: $50,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $50,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetWarrior Rising: $50,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSUAZO BUSINESS CENTER: $45,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE SANDY CLUB: $45,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetUTAH FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $30,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTURN Community Services Inc: $26,932 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCharitable Events Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetBALLET WEST: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Spike Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC: $21,484 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $21,356 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Valley Chamber Economic Development Foundation: $21,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetUtah Safety Council: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF SALT LAKE CITYINC: $20,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCharity Cultural Services Center: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOF LOVE LLC: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLONIAL FLAG FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

  • Who funds UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Salt Lake Chamber Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho ↗
  • Who funds UTAH'S PROMISE ↗
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of Utah ↗
  • Who funds THE DR DALE B HULL FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds HALE CENTER FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HALE CENTRE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds San Juan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Uplift Utah Families Foundation dba Uplift Families Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Women's Leadership Institute of Utah ↗
  • Who funds THE LIVING PLANET INC ↗
  • Who funds UTAH LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds KEN GARFF FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds SILICON SLOPES ↗
  • Who funds UTAH COMMUNITY BUILDERS ↗
  • Who funds THE DAYS OF '47 INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN ↗
  • Who funds Warrior Rising ↗
  • Who funds SUAZO BUSINESS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE SANDY CLUB ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds TURN Community Services Inc ↗

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 Found…Larry H Miller and Ga…George S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…Lawrence & Janet Dee …The Kahlert Foundatio…Kennecott Utah Copper…Beesley Family Founda…Ihc Health Services I…Pacificorp Foundation…McCarthey Family Foun…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT65.1× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · McCarthey 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 Wcf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wcf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 Wcf Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wcf 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 140 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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