Utah · Nonprofit
KEN GARFF FOR GOOD
KEN GARFF FOR GOOD (Utah) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,966,393 to it, the largest being THE KAHLERT FOUNDATION INC ($1,055,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KEN GARFF FOR GOOD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 922 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 922 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundationshared funders
- Joseph and Loretta Law Foundationportfolio match
- All Ways Up Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of KEN GARFF FOR GOOD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $30k → $1.1M.
11 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of KEN GARFF FOR GOOD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
KEN GARFF FOR GOOD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 38% · 2019 40% · 2020 40% · 2021 26% · 2022 23% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
53% of KEN GARFF FOR GOOD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of KEN GARFF FOR GOOD's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $767k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 52 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundationshared fundersUT · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Joseph and Loretta Law Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- All Ways Up Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Promontory Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Deaver Phoenix Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nesburn Family Foundation Co Anthony B Nesburn Mdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prosperity Denver Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dennis and Joan Norton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Mainshared funderslocalMO · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 38 organizations near you
- Utah's Promiseshared funderslocalUT · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · funds 91 organizations near you
- Marriner S Eccles Foundationshared funderslocalUT · backs 77 organizations that share your funders · funds 73 organizations near you
- David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundationshared funderslocalUT · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 80 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like KEN GARFF FOR GOOD
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KEN GARFF FOR GOOD: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds KEN GARFF FOR GOOD?
- KEN GARFF FOR GOOD (Utah) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,966,393 to it, the largest being THE KAHLERT FOUNDATION INC ($1,055,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KEN GARFF FOR GOOD have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $4,966,393 in grants to KEN GARFF FOR GOOD, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEN GARFF FOR GOOD?
- THE KAHLERT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,055,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEN GARFF FOR GOOD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 52funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing