Utah · Public charity
The Road Home
The primary mission is to help individuals and families step out of homelessness and back into the community in salt lake county. THE ROAD HOME meets this mission by providing housing-focused, emergency shelter programs, along with comprehensive housing services.
- $7.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $95k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $60,674
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,674
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $46M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Road Home funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $95k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $697k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $1.9M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $432k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $290k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $448k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $384k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelter the Homeless Inc | $2,218,092 | 3 | 5% |
| First Step House | $812,838 | 7 | 1% |
| Sth Magnolia LLC | $665,159 | 3 | n/a |
| Volunteers of America of Oregon Inc | $623,342 | 5 | 1% |
| Sth Wendell LLC | $365,939 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Utah | $305,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Palmer Court | $218,148 | 2 | n/a |
| Salt Lake Community Action Program | $138,591 | 2 | 0% |
| Valley Mental Health Incorporated | $96,673 | 3 | 0% |
| Housing Authority of the County of Salt Lake | $46,915 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.
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: The Community Foundation of Utah · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Road Home
- How much does The Road Home give?
- The Road Home reported 2 itemized grants totaling $94,887, out of $7,182,566 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Road Home fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (45%), Community Improvement (19%), Health (17%).
- Who are The Road Home's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shelter the Homeless Inc ($2.2M), First Step House ($813k), Sth Magnolia LLC ($665k).
- Does The Road Home fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Road Home?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Utah, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is The Road Home based?
- The Road Home is based in UT.
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