Utah · Private foundation
Catalyst Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $253k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $151,895
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Catalyst Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $253k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $172k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $38k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $281k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $283k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $802k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $1.5M | 32% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $901k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $1,500,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc | $652,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Uc San Diego Foundation | $381,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Utah Film Center | $284,895 | 4 | 1% |
| Center for Strategic and International Studies | $162,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Salt Lake Arts Academy | $110,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Ron Brown Scholar Fund | $96,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Mainly Mozart Inc | $93,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Benie Foundation Inc | $70,639 | 5 | 14% |
| The Healing Place Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Catalyst Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Cyber Century Forum · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust · Alan M & Mildred S Ravenal Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to Catalyst Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Catalyst 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.
About Catalyst Foundation
- How much does Catalyst Foundation give?
- Catalyst Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $253,395 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Catalyst Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (43%), Education (23%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Catalyst Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of California San Francisco Foundation ($1.5M), The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc ($652k), Uc San Diego Foundation ($382k).
- Does Catalyst Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Catalyst Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Catalyst Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cyber Century Forum, The Conrad Prebys Foundation, The San Diego Foundation.
- Where is Catalyst Foundation based?
- Catalyst Foundation is based in UT.
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