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Real Salt Lake Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
89%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$368k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 89% of the organizations Real Salt Lake Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$33k67%
FY20239$21k89%
FY20223$17kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.6MHuman Services$24kHealth$15kRecreation & Sports$15kFood & Nutrition$8kYouth Development$5kEducation$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Real Salt Lake Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Women's Christian Association of Utah$12,00010%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$10,00010%
Utah Food Bank$7,84430%
Utah Pride Center Inc$7,50010%
The Lindsey Vonn Foundation$5,00012%
Rise Athletics Foundation$5,00016%
Utah Athletic Foundation$3,50020%
Catholic Community Services of Utah$3,0001n/a
Salt Lake Community College Foundation$2,50010%
Utah Foster Care Foundation Inc$1,03010%
Thanksgiving Heroes Slc$99010%
Special Olympics Utah Inc$65720%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Real Salt Lake Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Suicide Prevention: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Food Bank: $7,844 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Pride Center Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Lindsey Vonn Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRise Athletics Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetUtah Athletic Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSalt Lake Community College Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUtah Foster Care Foundation Inc: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThanksgiving Heroes Slc: $990 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpecial Olympics Utah Inc: $657 over 2y, 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.

Dominion Energy Charitable FoundationVA17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Utah Medical Association Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · McCarthey Family Foundation · American Express Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Texas Instruments 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 Real Salt Lake Foundation

How much does Real Salt Lake Foundation give?
Real Salt Lake Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $33,457 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Real Salt Lake Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (96%), Human Services (1%), Health (1%).
Who are Real Salt Lake Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ($12k), American Foundation for Suicide Prevention ($10k), Utah Food Bank ($8k).
Does Real Salt Lake Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Real Salt Lake Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Real Salt Lake Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, The Kahlert Foundation Inc, George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation.
Where is Real Salt Lake Foundation based?
Real Salt Lake 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 18 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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