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You Are the Heart Murdock Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$117k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$33k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$142kHuman Services$83kRecreation & Sports$44kYouth Development$32kPhilanthropy$25kHealth$8kCrime & Legal$5kFood & Nutrition$3k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
$14,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$74k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAVIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$32,705
NO MORE VICTIMS$30,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF UTAH$25,000
ESPECIALLY FOR ATHLETES$14,000
GRANITE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$12,915
BRIDLE UP HOPE$2,000
LAYTON HIGH SCHOOL$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%CONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS: $5k → 19%NO MORE VICTIMS: $30k → 6%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $25k → 8%KIDS ON THE MOVE INC: $1k → 8%ORTHO CUP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%NO MORE VICTIMS: $30k → 6%UTAH'S FIRST LADY FOUNDATION: $30k → 8%ESPECIALLY FOR ATHLETES: $25k → 8%NO MORE VICTIMS: $23k → 6%UTAH HEMOPHILIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%ESPECIALLY FOR ATHLETES: $14k → 8%THE LIVE LIFE BIGGER FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%GRANITE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%ESPECIALLY FOR ATHLETES: $5k → 8%LESLIE MERRILL: $5k → 6%GRANITE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $13k → 8%BRIDLE UP HOPE: $2k → 8%BOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 6%FREDETTE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%DAVIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $33k → 6%DAVIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%LAYTON HIGH SCHOOL: $500 → 6%DAVIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%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.
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$232k · 4 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$232k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+17%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NM
    NO MORE VICTIMS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $83k
  • DE
    Davis Education Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $73k · revenue -4%
  • EF
    ESPECIALLY FOR ATHLETES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $44k · revenue +331%

Funded once

  • UF
    UTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -12%
  • LL
    LIVE LIFE BIGGER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • FF
    Fredette Family Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +7%
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
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
2
Utah Youth Sports Academy Foundation Fka Rsl Youth Academy Foundation
Recreation & Sports
3
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
4
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Utah Geological Foundation
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6
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
7
University of Utah Foundation

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

Philanthropy
8
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
9
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

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

Community Improvement
10
Canyons School District Education Foundation

Canyons School District Education Foundation works in tandem with community and business partners to build support for public schools and to advance Canyons School Districts mission to help every student become college- and career-ready…

Education
11
Park City Education Foundation

Our mission is to fund and support educator-powered initiatives that inspire all Park City students to reach their academic and lifelong potential.

Education
12
Weber County School District Foundation

The mission of the Weber School Foundation is to raise and provide funds to enhance educational goals and opportunities for students.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utahs First Lady Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ortho Cup Charitable Foundation. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NO MORE VICTIMS: $82,500 · OtherNO MORE VICTIMSDavis Education Foundation: $72,705 · OtherDavis Education FoundationLIVE LIFE BIGGER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherLIVE LIFE BIGGER FOUNDATION+3 more: $10,500 · Other+3 moreESPECIALLY FOR ATHLETES INC: $44,000 · Youth DevelopmentESPECIALLY FOR ATHLETES …UTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentUTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDAT…The Community Foundation of Utah: $25,000 · PhilanthropyThe Community…Fredette Family Foundation: $15,000 · PhilanthropyFredette Fami…Granite Education Foundation: $32,915 · EducationGranite Educ…BOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $3,000 · EducationBOUNTIFUL CO…+2 more: $2,000 · EducationThe Rachel Covey Foundation: $2,000 · HealthUTAH HEMOPHILIA FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Health
Other$185,705Youth Development$74,000Philanthropy$40,000Education$37,915Health$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDavis Education Foundation: $72,705 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetESPECIALLY FOR ATHLETES INC: $44,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetGranite Education Foundation: $32,915 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUTAHS FIRST LADY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Utah: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFredette Family Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBOUNTIFUL COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rachel Covey Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH HEMOPHILIA FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKids on the Move Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrtho Cup Charitable Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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…The Call FoundationClark and Christine I…Joan and Tim Fenton F…Making a Difference F…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · The Call Foundation · Clark and Christine Ivory Foundation · Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundation · Making a Difference Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 You Are the Heart Murdock Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from You Are the Heart Murdock Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    5report 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, 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 You Are the Heart Murdock Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to You Are the Heart Murdock 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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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