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American United Charitable Foundation at a glance

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American United Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$164k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$152kEducation$56kYouth Development$55kRecreation & Sports$28kFood & Nutrition$20kHealth$12kInternational$12kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$107k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICES$84,601
UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE$25,000
DESB$10,000
BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD$5,000
MINDFUL MUNCH$5,000
NAVAJO NATION VETERANS ADMINISTRATI$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
UTAH FOSTER CARE FOUNDATION$2,500
CONTINUE MISSION$2,500
UTAH VETERANS ALLIANCE$2,500
DESB$2,500
WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS$2,500
CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH$2,500
BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL$1,500
NAVAJOSTRONG$1,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN INDIAN SERVICES: $3k → 8%RED ROCK CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $2k → 10%NAVAJOSTRONG: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICES: $85k → 8%CONTINUE MISSION: $3k → 6%UTAH FOSTER CARE FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%ABILITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ABILITY FOUND: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $1k → 8%Joyful Welcome: $1k → 8%UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $1k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $25k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $3k → 8%UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $3k → 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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$156k · 16 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
29

Total granted

$156k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
0%

Still filing today

50%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalPublic BenefitHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UY
    UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +2%
  • WA
    WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +79%
  • WS
    WASTELESS SOLUTIONS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH - ECCLES BUSINES
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
  • NA
    NATIVE AMERICAN RESTORATION ASSOCIA
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • LH
    Lifting Hands International
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Ability 1st Utah

Assisting persons with disabilities to develop independent living and social skills, assisting with housing and transportation needs, rights advocacy, and counseling.

Human Services
2
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
3
Kids Who Count

We empower families to optimize the developmental potential of their young children.

Education
4
Utah Swat Inc
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5
Skilled Sos

The objective of this organization is to help students and workers make better career, education and finance decisions. With the influx of Afghan refugees in the USA, there is a need for resettlement assistance as well as a unique position…

Employment
6
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
7
Recreation and Habilitation Services (Rah)

Provides services and supports to individuals in Utah County who have intellectual disabilities.

—
8
Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake

To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…

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9
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

—
10
Central Utah Enterprises

To provide services to disabled persons with a focus on assisting individuals in Utah County with cognitive disabilities gain skills to enable them to enter the workforce.

—
11
Southwest Utah Community Health Center

Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.

Health
12
House of Hope

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

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Utah Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wasteless Solutions Inc. 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

26 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. 26 of the 56 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
10/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

100 for Kids: $21,000 · Other100 for KidsWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $17,500 · OtherWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INCDESB: $12,500 · OtherDESBUNIVERSITY OF UTAH - ECCLES BUSINES: $12,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH - ECCLES BUSINESNATIVE AMERICAN RESTORATION ASSOCIA: $10,000 · OtherNATIVE AMERICAN RESTORATION ASSOCIAVA: $10,000 · OtherVABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $9,200 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · Other+27 more: $68,100 · Other+27 moreCommunity Action Services and Food Bank: $84,601 · Human ServicesCommunity Action Services and Food BankUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $30,000 · Human ServicesUTAH YOUTH VILLAGEABILITY FOUND CORPORATION: $7,000 · Human ServicesUTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · Human Services+6 more: $12,000 · Human Services+6 moreBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD: $13,500 · InternationalLifting Hands International: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc: $1,500 · InternationalWASTELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionUTAH VETERANS ALLIANCE: $12,500 · Public BenefitWASATCH PEAKS FOUNDATION: $1,200 · Public BenefitSalt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services DBA Neighborworks Salt Lake: $4,937 · Housing & ShelterEYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah: $2,500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · HealthSPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC: $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$166,800Human Services$139,601International$27,500Food & Nutrition$15,000Public Benefit$13,700Housing & Shelter$4,937Health$3,500Recreation & Sports$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Action Services and Food Bank: $84,601 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUTAH YOUTH VILLAGE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWASTELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD: $13,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUTAH VETERANS ALLIANCE: $12,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLifting Hands International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILITY FOUND CORPORATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSalt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services DBA Neighborworks Salt Lake: $4,937 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Indian Services: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUtah Foster Care Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONTINUE MISSION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRED ROCK CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN WEST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1,250 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWASATCH PEAKS FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDDI VANTAGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Community Action Services and Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds UTAH YOUTH VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds WASATCH ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC ↗
  • Who funds WASTELESS SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD ↗
  • Who funds UTAH VETERANS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Lifting Hands International ↗
  • Who funds ABILITY FOUND CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UTAH POLICE CIVILIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
  • Who funds Salt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services DBA Neighborworks Salt Lake ↗
  • Who funds American Indian Services ↗
  • Who funds Utah Foster Care Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH ↗
  • Who funds EYE CARE FOR KIDS - Utah ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CONTINUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC ↗
  • Who funds NavajoStrong ↗

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…Kennecott Utah Copper…George S and Dolores …The Miner FoundationDavid Kelby Johnson M…Larry H Miller and Ga…Dominion Energy Chari…Ihc Health Services I…Pacificorp Foundation…The Community Foundat…C Scott & Dorothy E W…The Ashton Family Fou…
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT34× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Miner Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · The Community Foundation of Utah · C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundation · The Ashton Family 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 American United Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American United Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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

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How do I get to American United Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to American United 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 56 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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