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Salt Lake Chamber Foundation

We stand as the voice of business, support our member's success and champion community prosperity.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$559kEducation$188kSocial Science$115kFood & Nutrition$30kArts & Culture$25kEmployment$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kYouth Development$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $45,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $54,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $9,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Utah$25,000
Downtown SLC Presents$20,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TRAVERSE TOURS & TRAVEL: $5k → 4%ZENGER JERROLD: $5k → 5%HUGO COFFEE ROASTERS: $5k → 5%KIM KOREAN HOUSE & SUSHI BAR: $5k → 6%DAVID ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $50k → 8%O2O WORLDWIDE: $5k → 8%SMOKEY'S BBQ & GRILL LLC: $5k → 9%SPOTTY POTTAMOUS LLC: $5k → 9%DESAI RIPPLE H: $5k → 9%GARY'S SHOES: $5k → 10%DELTA FLYERS LLC: $5k → 11%BIG IRON TOUR CO LLC: $5k → 11%MARINA ELLIOT: $5k → 12%GREEN RIVER COFFEE CO: $5k → 12%DINOSAUR INN & SUITES INC: $5k → 12%PORK BELLY'S EATERY & CATERING CO: $5k → 13%V & M LLC: $5k → 14%JUST A WEE BIT USED LLC: $5k → 14%ROCKIN' R RANCH: $5k → 15%GUNNISON IMPLEMENT CO: $5k → 15%BLUFF GARDENS INC: $5k → 23%HIND'S COUNTRY STORE: $5k → 4%HEBER CITY THEATRE LLC: $5k → 5%MAIN STREET EMPORIUM LLC: $5k → 6%DAVID ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $50k → 8%NATIONAL PARK TOURZ LLC: $5k → 9%ZAPS INVESTMENTS LLC: $5k → 9%ENSIGN STAFFING INC: $5k → 10%ASK CARQUEST OF DELTA: $5k → 11%DIVANI LLC DBA CAFE ITALIANO & TROPICAL: $5k → 11%STONE PROPERTIES STONE CANYON INN LLC: $5k → 12%SALT LAKE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $68k → 8%SALT LAKE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $40k → 8%SL Chamber Women's Business Cntr: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $25k → 8%University of Utah: $25k → 8%Downtown SLC Presents: $20k → 8%SALT LAKE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20k → 8%Gov Office of Econ Opp: $15k → 8%URBAN FOOD CONNECTIONS OF UTAH: $10k → 8%SALT LAKE CHAMBER WOMENS BUSINESS CENTER: $10k → 8%SALT LAKE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10k → 8%Urban Food Connect: $10k → 8%URBAN FOOD CONNECTIONS OF UTAH: $10k → 8%SALT LAKE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10k → 8%SL Chamber of Commerce: $8k → 8%SALT LAKE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $6k → 8%SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15k → 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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$333k · 4 repeat orgs$610k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
104

Total granted

$333k
$590k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
+38%

Still filing today

75%
2%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UC
    Utah Chamber
    6× · 2017–2024 · $168k · revenue -14%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
    3× · 2021–2025 · $100k
  • SL
    Salt Lake Chamber Women's Business Center
    2× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue -12%

Funded once

  • DE
    DAVID ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • GO
    Gov Office of Econ Opp
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • SL
    SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 109 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)
6/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Utah Chamber: $167,600 · OtherUtah ChamberUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHDAVID ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $50,000 · OtherDAVID ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS+102 more: $534,510 · Other+102 moreSalt Lake Chamber Women's Business Center: $35,000 · Community ImprovementUrban Food Connections of Utah: $30,000 · Food & NutritionDowntown SLC Presents: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CASINO STAR THEATER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$852,110Community Improvement$35,000Food & Nutrition$30,000Arts & Culture$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUtah Chamber: $167,600 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSalt Lake Chamber Women's Business Center: $35,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUrban Food Connections of Utah: $30,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDowntown SLC Presents: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUTAH COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CASINO STAR THEATER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFUTUREINDESIGN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Utah Chamber ↗
  • Who funds Salt Lake Chamber Women's Business Center ↗
  • Who funds Urban Food Connections of Utah ↗
  • Who funds Downtown SLC Presents ↗
  • Who funds UTAH COMMUNITY BUILDERS ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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Ihc Health Services IncUT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 109 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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