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Woolley 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.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

International$7.1MReligion$1.7MHuman Services$325kArts & Culture$302kYouth Development$175kEducation$142kHealth$90kEnvironment$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIAOSI BROWN DIALYSIS CENTER$15,000
PEACE HOUSE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PEACE HOUSE: $10k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $5k → 5%PEACE HOUSE: $1k → 5%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $177k → 8%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $132k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$687k · 6 repeat orgs$9.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
25

Total granted

$687k
$9.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-1%

Still filing today

100%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • HC
    HALE CENTRE THEATRE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $217k · revenue +14%
  • MI
    Mentors International
    2× · 2022–2023 · $60k · revenue +73%
  • PP
    Paso Pacifico
    2× · 2022–2023 · $60k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTE
    one grant, 2022 · $7.0M
  • MG
    MORE GOOD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -35%
  • BI
    BYU Intl Ctr for Law Religion Studi
    one grant, 2022 · $500k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Utah Geological Foundation
3
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
4
Mormon Scholars Foundation
Education
5
Sunstone Education Foundation Incorporated

The mission of the Sunstone Education Foundation is to sponsor open forums of Mormon thought and experiences.

Religion
6
International Buddhist Education Foundation
Education
7
Samuel H Smith Foundation

Historial Research and Preservation

Human Services
8
University of Utah Foundation

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

Philanthropy
9
English Skills Learning Center

Integrates and strengthens communities through English language, literacy, and skills-based education for adult learners, delivered using a combination of professional staff and trained community volunteers.

Education
10
Utah Leads

Utah Leads set out to understand what makes our information ecosystem in Utah unique, who is influencing policy formation in Utah, how that influence works in practice through multiple channels and across channels, and what policy…

11
International Leadership Foundation for Adventist Colleges and Universities

To support the scholarship for international leadership program

Education
12
Salt Lake Education Foundation

To promote student success in the Salt Lake City School District by using private donations to supplement children's educational experiences.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utahs First Lady Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Siaosi Brown Dialysis Center. 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTE — $7,000,000 · OtherTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTEBYU Intl Ctr for Law Religion Studi — $500,000 · OtherBYU Intl Ctr for Law Religion Studi+15 more — $391,000 · OtherMORE GOOD FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · EducationMORE GOOD FO…+4 more — $60,500 · Education+4 moreAmerican Indian Services — $309,000 · Human ServicesPeace House Inc — $16,000 · Human ServicesHALE CENTRE THEATRE — $216,848 · Arts & CultureUTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentFULLMER LEGACY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentKEN GARFF FOR GOOD — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE INTERPRETER FOUNDATION — $100,000 · ReligionTHE JOHN A & LEAH D WIDTSOE FOUNDATION FKA THE JOHN A WIDTSOE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · ReligionBOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL — $10,000 · ReligionMentors International — $60,000 · International
Other$7,891,000Education$1,060,500Human Services$325,000Arts & Culture$216,848Youth Development$175,000Religion$160,000International$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMORE GOOD FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetAmerican Indian Services — $309,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetHALE CENTRE THEATRE — $216,848 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTHE INTERPRETER FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetMentors International — $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPaso Pacifico — $60,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetFULLMER LEGACY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTANFORD PROFESSIONALS IN REAL ESTATE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Constitution Education Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetKEN GARFF FOR GOOD — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPeace House Inc — $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSIAOSI BROWN DIALYSIS CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetHelp Start Education Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBOOK OF MORMON CENTRAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT25.8× affinity10 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 Ashton Family Foundation · Beesley Family Foundation · University Impact · The Community Foundation of Utah · Duane and Marci Shaw Foundation Inc · The Susan Ileene Wirthlin Foundation · Bertin Family Foundation · Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation · Wcf 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 Woolley 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Woolley Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Woolley Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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