· Private foundation
Promontory Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $285k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| PARK CITY TOTS | $50,000 |
| THE PEOPLE'S HEALTH CLINIC | $30,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY | $30,000 |
| LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MOUNTAIN TOWN MUSIC | $25,000 |
| KIMBALL ARTS CENTER | $25,000 |
| YOUTH SPORTS ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER | $17,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,350 |
| PEACE HOUSE | $15,000 |
| PARK CITY FILM SERIES | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SKI MOUNTAIN MINING HISTORY | $10,000 |
| KPCW | $10,000 |
| PARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CCCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY6× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +86%
- PHPeople's Health Clicnic5× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +380%
- PCPARK CITY TOTS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +143%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LIFE PARK CITYone grant, 2023 · $25k
- K(KPCW (COMMUNITY WIRELESS OF PARK CITY INC)one grant, 2022 · $23k
Sundance Instituteone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -29%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.
The mission of the Art Council of Park City & Summit County is to serve our arts & culture community by driving creative programming, providing valuable resources, and cultivating connections. We envision a community where arts & culture…
Our mission is to create more and better performance opportunities for utah musicians. we produce public performances and offer them free to the public. by offering a wide range of styles and diversity of artists people come together to…
Park City Presents is on a mission to transform the narrative in Bridgeport through the power of creative arts and music by offering high-quality, immersive music tech educational opportunities to city youth and presenting live…
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
To mentor young people in the digital media arts to help them find voice, tell their stories, and be empowered to affect positive change in their lives, their communities, and the world.
Solutions Utah was created to address homelessness and its impacts on our community. We work on solving Utahs challenges together. What used to be a great place to live, work, and visit is becoming less safe and more difficult to live and…
Expand the awareness, reach and capacity of salt unique performances and festivals. continuously seek and create emerging and cutting-edge performances to stay at the most forefront of the dance industry. educate dancers and community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park City Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Literacy Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY ↗
- Who funds People's Health Clicnic ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY TOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Peace House Inc ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kimball Art Center ↗
- Who funds Community Wireless of Park City ↗
- Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
- Who funds Mountain Town Stages ↗
- Who funds Park City Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY FILM COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH JAMES MORELLI LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Playing For Life Foundation ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY CLUBHOUSE ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN MEDIATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Utah Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Park City Community Foundation · Ssir Cares Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Sad Foundation Inc · Byrne Family Foundation Trust · Jeffrey & Leslie Fischer Family Fdn · Bloomer Family Foundation · The Jacquelyn & Gregory Zehner Foundation · F Cubed Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The McGuire Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Promontory Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.