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Utah Community Builders at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Utah Community Builders

Activate the utah business community to address pressing community issues that strengthens utah's workforce.

$67k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Education$561kHealth$67kEmployment$40kHuman Services$30kArts & Culture$23kCommunity Improvement$15k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SNOW COLLEGE$32,700
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$25,000
HINCKLEY INSTITUTE OF POLITICS$9,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%COMUNIDADES UNIDAS: $30k → 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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$222k · 3 repeat orgs$514k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
15

Total granted

$222k
$514k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+53%

Still filing today

33%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
    2× · 2021–2023 · $145k
  • SC
    Snow College
    2× · 2022–2023 · $54k
  • UA
    UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • DE
    DAVID ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • SL
    Salt Lake Chamber Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +344%
  • RH
    ROOM HERE
    one grant, 2021 · $37k · 61% of their budget
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 Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Inc

Expand utah's hispanic business and improve the community

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2
Economic Development Corporation of Utah Foundation

To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.

Community Improvement
3
University of Utah Foundation

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

Philanthropy
4
Utah Leads

Utah Leads set out to understand what makes our information ecosystem in Utah unique, who is influencing policy formation in Utah, how that influence works in practice through multiple channels and across channels, and what policy…

—
5
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.

—
6
Utah World Trade Center

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

Community Improvement
7
Utah Taxpayers Association

The Utah Taxpayer's Association was founded as a nonprofit, nonpartisan voluntary organization of approxiamately 2,800 businesses, professionals and individuals who work together for more efficient and effective government. The…

Civil Rights
8
Utah Donor Collaborative

Democracy Means Equality, Freedom & Justice: It means having a representative government. UDC is here to transform Utah politics and ensure that every voice counts.

—
9
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
10
Utah Housing Coalition Inc

The promotion of low-income housing within the state of utah.

—
11
Utah Geological Foundation
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12
Silicon Slopes

Silicon slopes empowers utah's startup and tech community to learn, connect, and serve.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salt Lake Chamber Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Room Here. 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

8 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. 8 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DAVID ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: $200,000 · OtherDAVID ECCLES SCHOOL OF BUSINESSUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $145,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHSnow College: $54,300 · OtherSnow CollegeROOM HERE: $37,050 · OtherROOM HEREWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY: $21,600 · OtherBYU MARRIOTT SCHOOL OF BUSINESS LDS PHLIANTHROPIES: $20,000 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherUVU FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherDIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherSOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherSNOW COLLEGE: $20,000 · OtherSalt Lake Chamber Foundation: $40,000 · EmploymentComunidades Unidas: $30,000 · Human ServicesHope Clinic Inc: $15,000 · HealthUTAH COALITION AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY: $15,000 · HealthUTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · Arts & CultureSalt Lake Community College Foundation: $20,000 · EducationTONY FINAU FOUNDATION FKA FINAU YOUTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$577,950Employment$40,000Human Services$30,000Health$30,000Arts & Culture$22,500Education$20,000Community Improvement$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSalt Lake Chamber Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetROOM HERE: $37,050 over 1y, 61% of budgetComunidades Unidas: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSalt Lake Community College Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHope Clinic Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTONY FINAU FOUNDATION FKA FINAU YOUTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetUTAH COALITION AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY: $15,000 over 1y, 20% 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 Salt Lake Chamber Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ROOM HERE ↗
  • Who funds Comunidades Unidas ↗
  • Who funds UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Salt Lake Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Hope Clinic Inc ↗
  • Who funds TONY FINAU FOUNDATION FKA FINAU YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UTAH COALITION AGAINST PORNOGRAPHY ↗

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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Utah Community Builders funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Utah Community Builders. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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