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Willard L Eccles Charitable 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
80
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$1.5MEducation$1.3MHealth$1.1MArts & Culture$983kHuman Services$608kFood & Nutrition$576kAnimals$459kYouth Development$316kOther$0
02FY2024 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $858k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $553k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Utah College of Scien$100,000
University of Utah School of Medici$86,667
The Children's Center$80,000
ASCENT Center$66,000
The Nature Conservancy of Utah$60,000
Crossroads Urban Center$60,000
University of Utah Orthopedic Cente$50,000
YCC Family Crisis Center$50,000
University of Utah Nat Hist Museum$35,000
Prospekt Mira$35,000
4th Street Clinic$34,300
Intermountain Health Foundation$30,000
Wasatch Community Gardens$30,000
Red Butte Garden$27,740
Moran Eye Center$27,500
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 (FY17–24, $620k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OGDEN VALLEY ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $10k → 9%Crossroads Urban Center: $60k → 8%OGDEN VALLEY ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $10k → 9%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $20k → 8%YCC Family Crisis Center: $50k → 9%Crossroads Urban Center: $20k → 8%YCC Family Crisis Center: $45k → 9%Crossroads Urban Center: $15k → 8%YCC Family Crisis Center: $20k → 9%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $10k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $10k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $10k → 8%CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER: $10k → 8%Family Promise of Ogden: $10k → 9%Family Promise of Ogden: $10k → 9%FAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $5k → 9%Utah Foster Care: $14k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $10k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $10k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $10k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $10k → 8%Intermountain Therapy Animals: $5k → 8%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $5k → 8%Utah Pet Partners: $5k → 8%Therapy Animals of Utah: $5k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $10k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $10k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $12k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $12k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $10k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $10k → 8%Adopt A Native Elder: $25k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $10k → 8%CARS 4 KIDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%CARS 4 KIDS FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $5k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $3k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $40k → 8%Food Justice Coalition: $30k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $25k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $10k → 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

WA
ID
MT
MN
NY
NV
WY
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
DC
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 106 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

106 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

106
56

Total granted

$6.5M
$557k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+38%

Still filing today

63%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $492k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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

  • WC
    WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +70%
  • WH
    Wasatch Homeless Health Care
    7× · 2017–2023 · $215k · revenue +94%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH
    5× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +199%

Funded once

  • FJ
    Food Justice Coalitiongraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +58% · 26% of their budget
  • SL
    SALT LAKE COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • UC
    Utah Cultural Alliance Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -18%
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
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
3
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Sci Utah Foundation

To ensure the future of wildlife through conservation, education and hunting.

Animals
5
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
6
Wasatch Wigeons Association

Improve utah's wetlands through hands-on conservation and community engagement

Animals
7
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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8
Utah Foundation

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.…

Public Benefit
9
Utah State Fair Corporation

The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.

Recreation & Sports
10
Stewardship Utah Foundation

The mission of the stewardship utah foundation is to advocate for the improvement of the environment in utah.

Human Services
11
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

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…

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12
University of Utah Foundation

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

Philanthropy
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 Trails Utah. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

113 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. 113 of the 191 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/113
Grantees still filing
82/113
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $898,484 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $480,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY+119 more: $3,927,062 · Other+119 moreCrossroads Urban Center: $155,000 · Human ServicesYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $115,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME: $85,000 · Human ServicesIntermountain Therapy Animals: $50,000 · Human ServicesSCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $34,000 · Human ServicesFood Justice Coalition: $30,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF OGDEN: $25,000 · Human ServicesAdopt-A-Native Elder: $25,000 · Human Services+7 more: $71,400 · Human ServicesMADISON RIVER FOUNDATION: $76,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake: $50,000 · EnvironmentGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $45,000 · EnvironmentUTAH WETLANDS FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EnvironmentSummit Land Conservancy: $45,000 · EnvironmentUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $40,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $34,000 · EnvironmentScenic Utah: $30,000 · EnvironmentGREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentTrails Utah: $25,000 · EnvironmentUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · Environment+8 more: $67,500 · EnvironmentWasatch Homeless Health Care: $215,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $101,000 · HealthSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $55,000 · HealthRAPE RECOVERY CENTER: $35,000 · HealthINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc: $17,500 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Wireless of Park City: $75,000 · Arts & CultureCraft Lake City Corporation: $75,000 · Arts & CultureOgden Friends of Acoustic Music-OFOAM: $67,500 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureUtah Cultural Alliance Foundation: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHUTCHINGS MUSEUM: $21,464 · Arts & CultureDowntown SLC Presents: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WEST: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $23,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $110,000 · AnimalsNEBRASKA WILDLIFE REHAB INC: $45,000 · AnimalsROUND RIVER CONSERVATION STUDIES: $42,500 · AnimalsGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $35,000 · AnimalsHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC: $35,000 · AnimalsUtah Zoological Society: $20,000 · AnimalsNuzzles & Co: $20,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $12,000 · Animals+5 more: $31,000 · AnimalsWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $245,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$5,305,546Human Services$620,400Environment$562,500Health$463,500Arts & Culture$456,964Animals$350,500Community Improvement$250,000

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $480,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $245,000 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care: $215,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH: $172,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $160,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads Urban Center: $155,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $115,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY: $110,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $101,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $96,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $85,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetMADISON RIVER FOUNDATION: $76,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetCommunity Wireless of Park City: $75,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCraft Lake City Corporation: $75,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetHENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC: $73,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetOgden Friends of Acoustic Music-OFOAM: $67,500 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPEKT MIRA: $60,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC: $59,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSEAGER MEMORIAL CLINIC: $55,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetIntermountain Therapy Animals: $50,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake: $50,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetNEBRASKA WILDLIFE REHAB INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN JOURNAL INC: $45,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUTAH WETLANDS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 8y, 29% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROUND RIVER CONSERVATION STUDIES: $42,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSALT LAKE CITY BICYCLE COLLECTIVE: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR: $35,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetRAPE RECOVERY CENTER: $35,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetST ANNE'S CENTER: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNION STATION FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetUTAH'S PROMISE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $34,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $34,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFood Justice Coalition: $30,000 over 1y, 26% 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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds Wasatch Homeless Health Care ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
  • Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds YCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY ↗
  • Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
  • Who funds THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC ↗
  • Who funds OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MADISON RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Community Wireless of Park City ↗
  • Who funds Craft Lake City Corporation ↗
  • Who funds HENRYS FORK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ogden Friends of Acoustic Music-OFOAM ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSPEKT MIRA ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH 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.

George S and Dolores …Lawrence & Janet Dee …Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…David Kelby Johnson M…Larry H Miller and Ga…McCarthey Family Foun…Pacificorp Foundation…Hemingway FoundationStephen G and Susan E…Henry W & Leslie M Es…Dominion Energy Chari…
George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT98.2× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Hemingway Foundation · Stephen G and Susan E Denkers Family Foundation · Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable 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 Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Willard L Eccles Charitable 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 191 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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