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Ascent Credit Union Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$771
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,248
Organizations funded a year
12 to 21
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$113k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Ascent Credit Union Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$21k71%
FY202412$35k50%
FY202321$37kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Education$65kRecreation & Sports$11kHuman Services$4kCommunity Improvement$3kArts & Culture$3kEmployment$3kYouth Development$2kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Ascent Credit Union Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ogden School Foundation$33,58131%
Weber County School District Foundation$5,59630%
Enableutah Inc$2,50020%
Box Elder School District Foundation$1,34620%
Children's Service Society of Utah$1,00110%
Youth Impact Incorporated$1,0001n/a
United Way of Northern Utah$1,00010%
Weber Human Services Foundation$53010%
Treehouse Children's Museum$50010%
Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah$25010%
Syracuse Arts Academy$20010%
St Anne's Center$15010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ascent Credit Union Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOgden School Foundation: $33,581 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetWeber County School District Foundation: $5,596 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEnableutah Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBox Elder School District Foundation: $1,346 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Service Society of Utah: $1,001 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Northern Utah: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWeber Human Services Foundation: $530 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTreehouse Children's Museum: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSyracuse Arts Academy: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Anne's Center: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

The Alan and Jeanne Hall FoundationUT20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation · United Way of Northern Utah · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Beaver Creek Foundation · Ralph Nye Charitable Foundation · Wasatch Peaks Foundation · James E & Norma Kier Charitable Foundation · Douglas & Shelley Felt Family Found · Wadman Foundation · America First Credit Union Charitable 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.

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About Ascent Credit Union Foundation

How much does Ascent Credit Union Foundation give?
Ascent Credit Union Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $20,671 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does Ascent Credit Union Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (70%), Recreation & Sports (12%), Human Services (4%).
Who are Ascent Credit Union Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Ogden School Foundation ($34k), Weber County School District Foundation ($6k), Enableutah Inc ($3k).
Does Ascent Credit Union Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ascent Credit Union Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ascent Credit Union Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation, United Way of Northern Utah, Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation.
Where is Ascent Credit Union Foundation based?
Ascent Credit Union Foundation is based in UT.

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 39 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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