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America First Credit Union Charitable Foundation

The America First Credit Union Charitable Foundation grants financial assistance to organizations that provide outreach and support programs to communities in which the credit union operates.

$956k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$124k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$585kHuman Services$333kFood & Nutrition$227kHealth$160kHousing & Shelter$110kReligion$70kCommunity Improvement$50kCivil Rights$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $509,658, the rows itemized in this filing. The $956,044 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $446,386 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $276k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $224k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$525k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Utah Association of Public Schools Foundation$123,892
Intermountain Foundation$100,000
Young Caring for our Young$30,000
Serving Our Kids Foundation$22,711
And Justice for All$20,000
South Valley Chamber$20,000
Davis Education Foundation$15,000
Food Bank of Northern Nevada$14,768
The Idaho FoodBank$13,787
Utah Food Bank$10,000
Cathedral of the Madeleine$10,000
Make A Wish Foundation - Utah$10,000
Roseman University$10,000
Christmas Box House International$10,000
Safe Nest Shelter$10,000
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 (FY20–24, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Box Elder Family Support Center: $6k → 8%Tabitha's Way: $10k → 8%Tabitha's Way: $10k → 8%Young Caring for our Young: $30k → 6%Tabitha's Way: $10k → 8%Safe Nest Shelter: $30k → 13%Young Caring for our Young: $30k → 6%Safe Nest Shelter: $15k → 13%Safe Nest Shelter: $10k → 13%Young Caring for our Young: $30k → 6%YCC of Northern Utah: $10k → 9%Safe Nest Shelter: $10k → 13%Safe Nest Shelter: $10k → 13%Turtle Shelter Project: $10k → 6%God's Garage (Utah): $10k → 9%YCC of Northern Utah: $10k → 9%Serving Our Kids Foundation: $23k → 13%YCC of Northern Utah: $10k → 9%YCC Family Crisis Center: $10k → 9%The Society of St Vincent DePaul: $10k → 8%The Road Home: $10k → 8%The Road Home: $10k → 8%The Road Home: $10k → 8%The Society of St Vincent DePaul: $10k → 8%The Society of St Vncent DePaul: $10k → 8%The Road Home: $10k → 8%The Road Home: $10k → 8%The Society of St Vncent DePaul: $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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 22 repeat orgs$389k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
14

Total granted

$1.2M
$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+13%

Still filing today

73%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IH
    INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +4%
  • DE
    Davis Education Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +43%
  • SN
    SAFE NESTTEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR
    5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +241%

Funded once

  • US
    UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • WC
    Weber County School District Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +301%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +74%
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
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
3
Little Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc

To strengthen Utah families by providing essential items, education, and resources to break the cycle of poverty and create a brighter, more secure future for children and their families.

Human Services
4
Salt Lake Community Action Program

The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.

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5
Utahns Against Hunger

Our mission is to increase access to food across utah through advocacy, outreach, and education. utahns against hunger is utahs only state-wide anti-hunger non-profit organization working on public policy and advocacy for federal nutrition…

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6
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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7
Utah Association of Family Support Centers Inc

The mission of the fscu is to strengthen utah families one community at a time by supporting parents, protecting children, and preserving families. to accomplish this mission, each family support center provides its clients with a 24-hour…

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8
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
9
Central Utah Food Sharing

Food bank - to assist those families who face the dilemma of paying rent or buying food.

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10
Northern Utah Cancer Foundation
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11
Utah Community Action Partnership Association Inc

The organization's mission is to lead, strengthen, and support the community action network in order to build thriving communities and end poverty.

Human Services
12
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
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 The Turtle Shelter Project. 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

39 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. 39 of the 43 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
29/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Davis Education Foundation: $110,000 · OtherDavis Education FoundationMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC: $70,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INCUTAH FOOD BANK: $65,419 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAH: $52,000 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAHCathedral of the Madeleine: $50,000 · OtherCathedral of the MadeleineST ANNE'S CENTER: $50,000 · OtherST ANNE'S CENTERWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $47,000 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $46,292 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHThree Square: $42,474 · OtherThree SquareUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherJUSTICE FOR ALL: $30,000 · Other+6 more: $78,000 · Other+6 moreYOUNG CARING FOR OUR YOUNG INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG CARING FOR OUR YOUNG…SAFE NESTTEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR: $75,000 · Human ServicesSAFE NESTTEMPORARY ASSISTA…THE ROAD HOME: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOMEYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $40,000 · Human ServicesYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTERSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE P…TABITHA'S WAY: $30,000 · Human ServicesTABITHA'S WAYSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $22,711 · Human ServicesSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATIO…+3 more: $26,000 · Human Services+3 moreUTAH ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIONS: $123,892 · EducationUTAH ASSOCIAT…Canyons School District Education Foundation: $28,000 · EducationCanyons Schoo…Weber County School District Foundation: $20,000 · EducationWeber County …ROSEMAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $10,000 · EducationMAJOR BRENT TAYLOR LEADERSHIP LEGAC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $6,600 · EducationINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · HealthINTERMOUNTAI…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthHUNTSMAN CAN…FOR THE KIDS ORG: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY: $20,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $14,768 · Food & NutritionIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $13,787 · Food & NutritionTHREE SQUARE: $10,331 · Food & NutritionTHE CHRISTMAS BOX INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · Community ImprovementCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $40,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$666,185Human Services$373,711Education$198,492Health$180,000Food & Nutrition$108,886Community Improvement$50,000Crime & Legal$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATIONS: $123,892 over 1y, 94% of budgetDavis Education Foundation: $110,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG CARING FOR OUR YOUNG INC: $90,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetSAFE NESTTEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR: $75,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF UTAH INC: $70,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $65,419 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHRISTMAS BOX INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetST ANNE'S CENTER: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOR THE KIDS ORG: $50,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetYCC FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF WAUKESHA COUNTY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTABITHA'S WAY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE FOR ALL: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCanyons School District Education Foundation: $28,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSERVING OUR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $22,711 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWeber County School District Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSouth Valley Chamber: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $14,768 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $13,787 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $10,331 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSEMAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGods Garage Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMAJOR BRENT TAYLOR LEADERSHIP LEGAC: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA INTERSCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION INC: $9,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUTAH JUMPSTART COALITION: $9,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $6,600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOX ELDER FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $6,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

Larry H Miller and Ga…Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…Ihc Health Services I…The Miner FoundationGeorge S and Dolores …Dominion Energy Chari…Ralph Nye Charitable …C Scott & Dorothy E W…Thom & Gail Williamse…Pacificorp Foundation…Rechieve Foundation
Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family FoundationUT25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ihc Health Services Inc · The Miner Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Ralph Nye Charitable Foundation · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · Thom & Gail Williamsen Family Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Rechieve 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 America First Credit Union Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from America First Credit Union Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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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    How do I get to America First Credit Union Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to America First Credit Union 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 43 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 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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