· Public charity
Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving.
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.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE | $7,431,602 |
| CURLY ME | $43,500 |
| VOICES FOR UTAH CHILDREN | $6,000 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SLSALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM6× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +82%
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters of Utah6× · 2017–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
- DEDavis Education Foundation6× · 2017–2023 · $919k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAHone grant, 2022 · $224k · revenue +4%
- CSCanyons School Districtone grant, 2017 · $205k
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INCgraduatedone 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.
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.
Making lives better in southwest utah by providing accessible, quality health care, regardless of financial, language, or cultural barriers.
Provide services to victims and potential victims of child abuse and neglect.
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.
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.
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
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.
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…
Stimulate local business establishment, growth, and development by facilitating business to business and business to community relationships throughout Utah County.
To improve access to quality health and dental care for low-income uninsured men, women, and children in Utah County.
Assisting persons with disabilities to develop independent living and social skills, assisting with housing and transportation needs, rights advocacy, and counseling.
To help people experiencing or at risk of homelessness build new lives through construction, community engagement, and education.
To empower Latino and Utah families by providing equitable access to information, resources, and educational programs to advance and strengthen the community.
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 field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 30% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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.
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.