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Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving.

$7.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$7.4M
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of UTAH'S PROMISE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $44k
  • $250k+1 grant · $7.4M
$43,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE$7,431,602
CURLY ME$43,500
VOICES FOR UTAH CHILDREN$6,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $9.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%MOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER: $11k → 9%UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE: $7.4M → 8%Family Counseling Service of Northern Utah: $13k → 9%DCCAV-Safe Harbor Shelter and Crisis Center: $80k → 6%DCCAV-SAFE HARBOR SHELTER AND CRISIS CENTER: $70k → 6%DAVIS CITIZENS' COALITION AGAINST VIOLENCE DBA SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $50k → 6%DAVIS CITIZENS' COALITION AGAINST VIOLENCE DBA SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $25k → 6%DAVIS CITIZENS' COALITION AGAINST VIOLENCE DBA SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER: $13k → 6%Community Education Partnership: $64k → 8%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $47k → 8%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP OF WEST VALLEY CITY INC: $17k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $38k → 8%Family Support Center: $20k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $20k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $25k → 8%YMCA OF NORTHERN UTAH: $23k → 8%TURN Community Services Inc: $20k → 8%TURN COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%SOUTH VALLEY SERVICES (FORMERLY SOUTH VALLEY SANCTUARY): $15k → 8%The Road Home: $100k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $95k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $95k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $62k → 8%Utah Community Action Partnership Assoc: $60k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $56k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF UTAH: $50k → 8%THE ROAD HOME: $50k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF UTAH: $45k → 8%ASIAN ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $68k → 8%COMUNIDADES UNIDAS: $55k → 8%ASIAN ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $50k → 8%Asian Association of Utah: $50k → 8%ASIAN ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $42k → 8%ASIAN ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $42k → 8%ASIAN ASSOCIATION OF UTAH: $42k → 8%Comunidades Unidas: $35k → 8%COMUNIDADES UNIDAS: $28k → 8%COMUNIDADES UNIDAS: $25k → 8%COMUNIDADES UNIDAS: $21k → 8%COMUNIDADES UNIDAS: $21k → 8%LATINO BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE SERVICES: $20k → 8%THE INN BETWEEN: $15k → 8%Neighborhood House Association: $65k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $60k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $42k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $21k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $11k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$24M · 82 repeat orgs$9.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

82 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 80 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
48

Total granted

$24M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+27%

Still filing today

89%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SL
    SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
    6× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +82%
  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
  • DE
    Davis Education Foundation
    6× · 2017–2023 · $919k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH
    one grant, 2022 · $224k · revenue +4%
  • CS
    Canyons School District
    one grant, 2017 · $205k
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $161k · revenue +26%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Southwest Utah Community Health Center

Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.

Health
2
Utah Valley Family Support Center Inc

Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.

3
Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness

USARA's mission is to connect and inspire communities to advocate for addiction recovery. We envision a Utah where recovery community and connection are recognized as the most valuable assets for people to recover from addiction.

Health
4
The Center for Economic Opportunity and Belonging

Our mission is to engage with communities and catalyze private, public, and philanthropic partnerships to remedy opportunity gaps in economic opportunity, education, health, and housing in Utah.

Community Improvement
5
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
6
Utah Parent Center Inc

Our mission is to help parents help their children, youth and young adults with all disabilities to live included, productive lives as members of the community.

Human Services
7
Utah Association of Family Support Centers Inc

The mission of the fscu is to strengthen utah families one community at a time by supporting parents, protecting children, and preserving families. to accomplish this mission, each family support center provides its clients with a 24-hour…

8
Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce

Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.

9
Community Health Connect

To improve access to quality health and dental care for low-income uninsured men, women, and children in Utah County.

10
Ability 1st Utah

Assisting persons with disabilities to develop independent living and social skills, assisting with housing and transportation needs, rights advocacy, and counseling.

Human Services
11
Shelter Providers of Utah

To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.

12
Centro Hispano

To empower Latino and Utah families by providing equitable access to information, resources, and educational programs to advance and strengthen the community.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Support Center and the most unlike its peers is Hartland Community 4 Youth & Families. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr18%27%20–35yr8%33%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%30%<5yr15%2%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr8%26%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 30% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/118
the rest of the field
15%
765/5,034

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 132 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/103
Grantees still filing
85/103
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Granite School District — $2,521,076 · OtherGranite School DistrictSALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM — $1,961,993 · OtherSALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMCITY OF SOUTH SALT LAKE — $1,553,936 · OtherCITY OF SOUTH SALT LAKEUtah Partners for Health — $993,986 · OtherUtah Partners for HealthDavis Education Foundation — $919,030 · OtherDavis Education FoundationSALT LAKE COUNTY — $829,702 · OtherGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC — $780,105 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $658,677 · Other+62 more — $6,454,497 · Other+62 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE — $7,431,602 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKETHE ROAD HOME — $458,150 · Human Services+19 more — $1,533,194 · Human Services+19 moreBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah — $1,024,094 · EducationBig Broth…LATINOS IN ACTION INC — $624,642 · EducationLATINOS I…Park City Education Foundation — $571,420 · EducationPark City…English Skills Learning Center — $274,500 · EducationEnglish S…Canyons School District Education Foundation — $224,000 · EducationCanyons S…POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $100,000 · Education+3 more — $116,400 · EducationUTAH HEALTH POLICY PROJECT — $464,500 · HealthWasatch Homeless Health Care — $257,500 · HealthDAVIS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $217,444 · HealthHoly Cross Ministries of Utah — $201,718 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $161,195 · HealthMidtown Community Health Center Inc — $134,750 · HealthPeople's Health Clicnic — $122,800 · HealthMaliheh Free Clinic — $120,800 · HealthVALLEY MENTAL HEALTH INCORPORATED — $105,000 · Health+12 more — $175,500 · HealthTHE FAMILY CONNECTION CENTER INC DBA OPEN DOORS SOCIAL SERVICES — $560,438 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE — $226,000 · Crime & LegalUTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC — $157,500 · Crime & LegalSalt Lake Education Foundation — $501,718 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $150,000 · PhilanthropyPARK CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH — $48,961 · PhilanthropyMidvale Community Building Community Inc — $43,900 · PhilanthropyUtah Afterschool Network — $257,500 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH — $224,488 · Youth DevelopmentHARTLAND COMMUNITY 4 YOUTH & FAMILIES — $150,000 · Youth Development
Other$16,673,002Human Services$9,422,946Education$2,935,056Health$1,961,207Crime & Legal$943,938Philanthropy$794,579Youth Development$631,988

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE — $7,431,602 over 2y, 57% of budgetSALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM — $1,961,993 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah — $1,024,094 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetDavis Education Foundation — $919,030 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC — $780,105 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetLATINOS IN ACTION INC — $624,642 over 6y, 14% of budgetPark City Education Foundation — $571,420 over 6y, 8.4% of budgetTHE FAMILY CONNECTION CENTER INC DBA OPEN DOORS SOCIAL SERVICES — $560,438 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation — $501,718 over 5y, 13% of budgetUTAH HEALTH POLICY PROJECT — $464,500 over 6y, 9.4% of budgetTHE ROAD HOME — $458,150 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUtah Children — $434,000 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetCROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590 — $433,068 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE — $373,332 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $364,707 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH — $323,834 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association of Utah — $323,750 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetImpact Mental Health — $312,333 over 5y, 30% of budgetVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH — $308,750 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetASIAN ASSOCIATION OF UTAH — $292,816 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetUnited Way of Central and Southern Utah — $287,608 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetUTAHNS AGAINST HUNGER — $274,501 over 6y, 35% of budgetEnglish Skills Learning Center — $274,500 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetUtah Afterschool Network — $257,500 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetWasatch Homeless Health Care — $257,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER — $237,500 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY — $234,358 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE — $226,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH — $224,488 over 1y, 17% of budgetCanyons School District Education Foundation — $224,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetDAVIS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $217,444 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Utah & Idaho — $215,600 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetHoly Cross Ministries of Utah — $201,718 over 3y, 11% of budgetNeighborhood House Association — $198,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetComunidades Unidas — $185,241 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetJewish Family Service — $177,736 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $161,195 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE — $158,270 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC — $157,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP ASSOCIATION INC — $155,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetHARTLAND COMMUNITY 4 YOUTH & FAMILIES — $150,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetODYSSEY HOUSE INC - UTAH — $147,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $135,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMidtown Community Health Center Inc — $134,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Education Partnership — $127,980 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetPeople's Health Clicnic — $122,800 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMaliheh Free Clinic — $120,800 over 6y, 3.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE
  • Who funds SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah
  • Who funds Davis Education Foundation
  • Who funds GUADALUPE CENTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC
  • Who funds LATINOS IN ACTION INC
  • Who funds Park City Education Foundation
  • Who funds THE FAMILY CONNECTION CENTER INC DBA OPEN DOORS SOCIAL SERVICES
  • Who funds Salt Lake Education Foundation
  • Who funds UTAH HEALTH POLICY PROJECT
  • Who funds THE ROAD HOME
  • Who funds Utah Children
  • Who funds CROSSROADS OF THE WEST COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 590
  • Who funds COMMUNITY NURSING SERVICE
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER UTAH
  • Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Utah
  • Who funds Impact Mental Health
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA UTAH
  • Who funds ASIAN ASSOCIATION OF UTAH
  • Who funds United Way of Central and Southern Utah
  • Who funds UTAHNS AGAINST HUNGER
  • Who funds English Skills Learning Center
  • Who funds Utah Afterschool Network
  • Who funds Wasatch Homeless Health Care
  • Who funds SAFE HARBOR CRISIS CENTER
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY
  • Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SALT LAKE
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH
  • Who funds Canyons School District Education Foundation
  • Who funds DAVIS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of Utah & Idaho
  • Who funds Holy Cross Ministries of Utah

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT108.4× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater Salt Lake · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Utah Medical Association Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    52report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $3.3M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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