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Ascent Credit Union Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$771
Median grant
2
States reached
$113k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$6,248
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,091
Ogden School Foundation$1,500
Childrens Services Society$1,001
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Royal Family Kids Camp$1,000
Box Elder School Foundation$771
Weber School Foundation$771
Individual grant recipient$515
Davis Mountain Bike Team$500
Ben Lomond High School$500
North Ogden Junior High$474
Individual grant recipient$300
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 (FY25–25, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%YMCA of Northern Utah: $250 → 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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62k · 9 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
18

Total granted

$62k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+18%

Still filing today

44%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EducationEmploymentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • WC
    Weber County School District Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +255%
  • EI
    ENABLEUTAH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +10%
  • BE
    Box Elder School District Foundation
    2× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • BH
    Bonneville High School
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • WH
    Weber High School
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • WS
    Weber State CATapult Program
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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 Arts Academy

Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…

Education
2
Wasatch Christian School

Educate children in traditional academics and developmentally appropriate activities, as well as a biblical education to encourage their Christian development.

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3
The Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind Education Foundation

To provide resources and financial support to meet the unique need of the children and families served by the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind (USDB).

Education
4
Timpanogos Academy Foundation

To establish a school where each student gains the scholarly knowledge and skills vital to becoming a self-motivated, lifelong learner and to succeed in the rapidly evolving and complex world. This mission will be accomplished by using the…

Education
5
Dyslexia Center of Utah New Heights Inc

We inspire and transform students with learning differences into confident, independent, and successful readers. We collaborate with colleagues and members of the community for the welfare and value of our diverse learners.

Education
6
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
7
United Way of Central and Southern Utah

We improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our local community to provide resources and programs that focus on health, education, and income.

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8
Utah Education Fits All

To ensure utah families have the freedom and access to choose the best fit for their childs education.

Education
9
Salt Lake Education Foundation

To promote student success in the Salt Lake City School District by using private donations to supplement children's educational experiences.

Philanthropy
10
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
11
Tooele County School District Education Foundation Inc

To support the Tooele School District in education, literacy, and charitable purposes.

Education
12
Salt Lake Arts Academy

To prepare students to become confident and creative builders of their future, equipped through the arts and academics to take responsibility for shaping their communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Northern Utah; the most unlike its peers is Treehouse Children's Museum. 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

11 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. 11 of the 39 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ogden Weber Technical College: $9,902 · OtherOgden Weber Technical CollegeIndividual grant recipient: $6,248 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWeber Human Services: $6,100 · OtherWeber Human ServicesBonneville High School: $4,000 · OtherBonneville High SchoolIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,091 · OtherWeber High School: $1,850 · Other+26 more: $16,576 · Other+26 moreOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $33,581 · EducationOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATIONWeber County School District Foundation: $5,596 · EducationWeber County School District Foundation+1 more: $200 · EducationENABLEUTAH INC: $2,500 · EmploymentUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH: $1,000 · PhilanthropyYoung Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah: $250 · Human Services
Other$49,267Education$39,377Employment$2,500Philanthropy$1,000Human Services$250

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

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
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 OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Weber County School District Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ENABLEUTAH INC ↗
  • Who funds Box Elder School District Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH ↗
  • Who funds WEBER HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds ST ANNE'S CENTER ↗

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 H…United Way of Norther…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Ihc Health Services I…George S and Dolores …Beaver Creek Foundati…Ralph Nye Charitable …Wasatch Peaks Foundat…James E & Norma Kier …Douglas & Shelley Fel…Wadman FoundationAmerica First Credit …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ascent Credit Union Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ascent Credit Union 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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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