Utah · Public charity
Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. We unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
- $7.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2024
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $43,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,431,602
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 86
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $21M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $485k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $7.5M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $4.5M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $4.3M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $3.5M | 6% |
| FY2020 | 80 | $4.0M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 78 | $4.3M | 15% |
| FY2017 | 86 | $5.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Salt Lake | $7,431,602 | 2 | 57% |
| Granite School District | $2,521,076 | 6 | n/a |
| Salt Lake Community Action Program | $1,961,993 | 6 | 1% |
| City of South Salt Lake | $1,553,936 | 6 | n/a |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah | $1,024,094 | 6 | 10% |
| Utah Partners for Health | $993,986 | 6 | n/a |
| Davis Education Foundation | $919,030 | 6 | 3% |
| Salt Lake County | $829,702 | 6 | n/a |
| Guadalupe Center Educational Programs Inc | $780,105 | 5 | 5% |
| University of Utah | $658,677 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 117 grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($529k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 100 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · 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
How this is measured
Compare Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake with peer funders
About Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake
- How much does Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake give?
- Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake reported 3 grants totaling $7,519,041 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 86 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (24%), Education (21%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of Greater Salt Lake ($7.4M), Granite School District ($2.5M), Salt Lake Community Action Program ($2.0M).
- Does Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sorenson Legacy Foundation, Ihc Health Services Inc, Intermountain Community Care Foundation Inc.
- Where is Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake based?
- Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake is based in UT.
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