· Private foundation
Robert S Carter Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASATCH HOMELESS HEALTH CARE INC | $12,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $5,000 |
| UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC | $4,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC | $3,500 |
| UTAH FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| ARCS FOUNDATION INC UTAH CHAPTER | $3,000 |
| CROSSROADS URBAN CENTER | $3,000 |
| RURAL UTAH PROJECT EDUCATION FUND | $3,000 |
| THE ROAD HOME | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF UTAH COUNTY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $2,000 |
| HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WHWasatch Homeless Health Care9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +94%
- UFUTAH FOOD BANK9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +93%
- UOUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +168%
Funded once
- RBRED BUTTE GARDENSone grant, 2021 · $3k
- YWYoung Women's Christian Association of Utahgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +39%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
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.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents…
The Utah Public Health Association (UPHA) is a statewide membership organization dedicated to improving the health of Utah communities by supporting and representing the public health workforce. UPHA advances public health through…
The promotion of low-income housing within the state of utah.
To serve The People by honoring Native cultures, strengthening health and wellness programs, and cultivating community. We envision all Native peoples living balanced, prosperous, and healthy lives in diverse communities for Seven…
To provide quality affordable housing opportunities to individuals and families living in Utah.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Wasatch Homeless Health Care ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Crossroads Urban Center ↗
- Who funds ARCS FOUNDATION INC UTAH CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SALT LAKE AREA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF UTAH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC ↗
- Who funds UTAHNS AGAINST HUNGER ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah ↗
- Who funds SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF CACHE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds STEWARDSHIP UTAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert S Carter Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert S Carter Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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