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Leavitt Foundation, Dixie & Anne
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| Funder type: |
Public Charity |
| Address: |
216 S. 200 W.
Cedar City, UT 84720 |
| IRS 990PF Telephone: |
435-586-6553 |
| EIN: |
870663523 |
| Geographic focus: |
UT |
| Types of support: |
Not Specified |
| Deadlines: |
None apparent
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| Geographic Interests: |
Gives only in Southern Utah and Nevada |
| Related corporation? |
NO |
| Total assets: |
$8,959,091
as of
2004 |
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Average grant:
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$ 17,437 |
| Grant low: |
$ 2,050 |
| Grant high: |
$ 37,257 |
| Trustees / directors: |
Alan Jones; Dixie Leavitt; Scott Truman |
| 990 report(s): | View ReportView Report (Requires Adobe Acrobat). |
| Business notes: |
The family foundation of US Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt |
Overview: Small family-operated foundation founded in 2000 which awards grants in Southern Utah primarily to the local community foundation, the local state university, and a family-related geneaology program.
NOTE: The foundation is not a private foundation and is not required to provide detailed data on its grantees, grant purposes or amounts. As a Type III charity (Supporting Organization), it is required to provide information on the charities it supports, including the names of major recipients.
The foundation is a supporting organization of the Southern Utah Foundation. It is, in effect a donor-designated fund of the local community foundation which legally controls the disposition of Leavitt Foundation funds that are in its care. Southern Utah Foundation executive director, Scott Truman is one of three trustees of the Leavitt Foundation.
NOTE: Recently the foundation has been criticized for its practice of lending funds to family members and funding a university program that used its grant money to pay for services from a Leavitt family-owned business.
The Southern Utah University program received funds from the foundation (through the Southern Utah Foundation) and directly from the Leavitt Land and Investment company. Together, the Leavitt company and the Leavitt Foundation gave $578,500 to a Southern Utah University housing scholarship program. With these funds, Southern Utah Univesity housed students in housing units owned by Cedar Development Company, another Leavitt family business.
Foundation trustees report that this funding is part of new package of grants totaling more than $1.2 million to Utah and Nevada charities during the last 18 months. The foundation has not filed a report with the IRS since May 2004. Therefore, the new giving is not reflected in the most recently filed reports.
For more information, go the online newstories: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5590281 or http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072001906.html
NOTE: Secretary Leavitt is not on the board of the foundation, but is a director of the two family related businesses.
- Education, Higher Education:
- History, Historic Preservation/Historical S:
- Philanthropy & Voluntarism:
- Youth Development, Scouting Agencies:
Sample Grants
$ 5,280 to
Boy Scouts of America , DE unspecified location
$ 37,257 to
Southern Utah Foundation , Cedar City , UT
$ 2,050 to
Southern Utah University , Cedar City , UT
$ 4,500 to
Western Association of Leavitt Families genealogical society
Application Procedures:: None specified. All three of the past year's recipients have received grants from the foundation in the previous two years.
Grants Paid
2000
($0 )
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2002
($49,087 )
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2003
($52,312 )
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