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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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$368k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Utah Pride Center$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Rise Athletics Foundation$5,000
Lindsey Vonn Foundation$5,000
Catholic Community Services$3,000
Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation$2,500
Salt Lake Commmunity College Foundation$2,500
Utah Food Bank$2,400
Special Olympics Utah$557
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Utah Foster Care: $1k → 8%Utah Pride Center: $8k → 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.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12k · 3 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$12k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +5%
  • UA
    UTAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue -34%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $657 · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • YW
    Young Women's Christian Association of Utah
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +22%
  • AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -9%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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 Sports Commission Foundation

The Utah Sports Commission Foundation is a charitable organization governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, and community leaders, and was created to foster national and international sports…

Recreation & Sports
2
Utah Youth Sports Academy Foundation Fka Rsl Youth Academy Foundation
Recreation & Sports
3
Utah Motorsports Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Utah World Trade Center

World trade center utah accelerates growth for utah companies through our global networks, programs, and services.

Community Improvement
5
Real Salt Lake Foundation
Human Services
6
The Community Foundation of Utah

We are utah's partner in philanthropy, pioneering innovation and collaboration to invest in our community today for a brighter tomorrow.

Philanthropy
7
University of Utah Foundation

Provide support to the University of Utah Growth Capital Partners Foundation in Charitable, Educational and Scientific purposes.

Philanthropy
8
Utah Aids Foundation

UAF Legacy Health provides cross-culturally responsive healthcare for LGBTQ+ Utahns and people living with HIV.

Health
9
Utah Sports Commission

The utah sports commission is governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, and community leaders, and was created to foster national and international sports competitions to be held in the state…

Community Improvement
10
Autism Foundation of Utah
Health
11
Utah Geological Foundation
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12
Utah Valley University Foundation Inc

To assist Utah Valley University (UVU) in fulfilling its objectives: to aid and advance the services of UVU, to raise funds for student scholarships, and to raise funds for University program development.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Utah Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rise Athletics Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PI FOUNDATION INC: $1,595,435 · PhilanthropyTHE PI FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $990 · PhilanthropyYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah: $12,000 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANK: $7,844 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,500 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF UTAH: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · Other+2 more: $558 · OtherAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 · HealthRise Athletics Foundation: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsUTAH ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC: $657 · Recreation & SportsUtah Pride Center Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesUtah Foster Care Foundation Inc: $1,030 · Human ServicesTHE LINDSEY VONN FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSalt Lake Community College Foundation: $2,500 · Education
Philanthropy$1,596,425Other$35,402Health$10,000Recreation & Sports$9,157Human Services$8,530Youth Development$5,000Education$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PI FOUNDATION INC: $1,595,435 over 1y, 12% of 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
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.

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 Chari…The Kahlert Foundatio…George S and Dolores …Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…Utah Medical Associat…Kennecott Utah Copper…Intermountain Communi…McCarthey Family Foun…American Express Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Texas Instruments Fou…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Real Salt Lake Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Real Salt Lake Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–5%
    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 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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