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Promontory Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$437k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$457kHuman Services$390kHealth$208kRecreation & Sports$147kEducation$106kHousing & Shelter$90kPhilanthropy$79kEnvironment$63kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $285k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$475k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$50,000
PARK CITY TOTS$50,000
CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY$30,000
THE PEOPLE'S HEALTH CLINIC$30,000
KIMBALL ARTS CENTER$25,000
MOUNTAIN TOWN MUSIC$25,000
LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION$25,000
YOUTH SPORTS ALLIANCE$20,000
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER$17,500
Individual grant recipient$17,350
PEACE HOUSE$15,000
KPCW$10,000
PARK CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$10,000
MOUNTAINLANDS COMMUNITY$10,000
BALLET WEST$10,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PARK CITY TOTS: $50k → 5%PARK CITY TOTS: $20k → 5%PARK CITY TOTS: $20k → 5%PARK CITY TOTS: $20k → 5%PARK CITY TOTS: $5k → 5%PARK CITY TOTS: $5k → 5%PARK CITY TOTS: $5k → 5%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 33 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
9

Total granted

$1.6M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
-9%

Still filing today

67%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • CC
    CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +86%
  • PC
    PARK CITY TOTS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +143%
  • PH
    People's Health Clicnic
    5× · 2018–2024 · $125k · revenue +380%

Funded once

  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE PARK CITY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • K(
    KPCW (COMMUNITY WIRELESS OF PARK CITY INC)
    one grant, 2022 · $23k
  • Sundance Institute
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -29%
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 Alliance

To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.

Arts & Culture
2
Park City Summit County Arts Council

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…

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3
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
5
Excellence in the Community

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Park City Presents

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

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

Community Improvement
8
Spy Hop Productions

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.

Youth Development
9
Utah Geological Foundation
—
10
Lightspark Foundation
Civil Rights
11
Solutions Utah a Non-Profit Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
12
Salt Contemporary Dance Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park City Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 47 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC: $80,000 · OtherFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY …YOUTH SPORTS ALLIANCE: $57,500 · OtherYOUTH SPORTS ALLIANCEMOUNTAIN LANDS COMMUNITY: $50,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN LANDS COMMUNITYCOMMUNITY FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATIONEGYPTIAN THEATER: $40,000 · OtherEGYPTIAN THEATERPARK CITY MEDICAL CENTER: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherYOUNG LIFE PARK CITY: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $23,000 · OtherKPCW (COMMUNITY WIRELESS OF PARK CITY INC): $22,500 · OtherLIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherTHE LITERACY PROJECT: $33,500 · OtherPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $23,500 · Other+14 more: $137,850 · Other+14 moreKimball Art Center: $70,000 · Arts & CultureKimball Art CenterCommunity Wireless of Park City: $61,500 · Arts & CultureCommunity Wireless of…BALLET WEST: $55,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WESTMountain Town Stages: $52,500 · Arts & CultureMountain Town StagesPARK CITY FILM COUNCIL: $35,000 · Arts & CulturePARK CITY FILM COUNCI…UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $27,500 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERASundance Institute: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $12,500 · Arts & CulturePARK CITY TOTS INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesPARK CITY TOTS …Peace House Inc: $115,000 · Human ServicesPeace House IncPeople's Health Clicnic: $125,000 · HealthPeople's He…Playing For Life Foundation: $20,500 · HealthPlaying For…SUMMIT COUNTY CLUBHOUSE: $20,000 · HealthSUMMIT COUN…CONNECT SUMMIT COUNTY: $10,000 · HealthCONNECT SUM…CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY: $149,500 · ReligionCHRISTIAN…Park City Education Foundation: $45,000 · EducationPARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $33,000 · EducationJOSEPH JAMES MORELLI LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · EducationNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $72,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$657,850Arts & Culture$334,000Human Services$240,000Health$175,500Religion$149,500Education$105,500Recreation & Sports$72,000

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 budgetCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY: $149,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPARK CITY TOTS INC: $125,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetPeople's Health Clicnic: $125,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPeace House Inc: $115,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC: $80,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetNATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $72,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKimball Art Center: $70,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Wireless of Park City: $61,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBALLET WEST: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMountain Town Stages: $52,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPark City Education Foundation: $45,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetPARK CITY FILM COUNCIL: $35,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetTHE LITERACY PROJECT: $33,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetPARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $33,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOSEPH JAMES MORELLI LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $23,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPlaying For Life Foundation: $20,500 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetMOUNTAIN MEDIATION CENTER INC: $20,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSundance Institute: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY CLUBHOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECT SUMMIT COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEATS Park City: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSADDLE OF LOVE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HOPE ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY ↗
  • Who funds PARK CITY TOTS INC ↗
  • Who funds People's Health Clicnic ↗
  • 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 LIVE LIKE SAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARK CITY FILM COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE LITERACY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds PARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
  • Who funds JOSEPH JAMES MORELLI LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Playing For Life Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN MEDIATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY CLUBHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN TRAILS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Utah Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
  • Who funds CONNECT SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Park City Community F…Ssir Cares IncMightycause Charitabl…Sad Foundation IncByrne Family Foundati…Jeffrey & Leslie Fisc…Bloomer Family Founda…The Jacquelyn & Grego…F Cubed FoundationSorenson Legacy Found…The McGuire Family Fo…George S and Dolores …
Park City Community FoundationUT36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Promontory Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Promontory Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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