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.

Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake

Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

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

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$7.4M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$8.0MEducation$7.0MHuman Services$4.9MHealth$4.7MYouth Development$4.1MPublic Benefit$1.6MHousing & Shelter$1.2MFood & Nutrition$599kOther$0

02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k1 grant · $44k
$250k+1 grant · $7.4M

$43,500

Median grant

States reached

$21M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE	$7,431,602
CURLY ME	$43,500
VOICES FOR UTAH CHILDREN	$6,000

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$24M · 82 repeat orgs$9.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

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%

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.

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

Utah Domestic Violence Advisory Council

The organization's mission is to end domestic violence in utah through advocacy, education, collaboration, and leadership. the organization is the nationally recognized domestic violence coalition for the state of utah.

Crime & Legal

Utah Valley Family Support Center Inc

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

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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

Salt Lake Community Action Program

The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.

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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…

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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

Community Nursing Service

We bring healing and comfort home through expert, compassionate, and personalized care.

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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

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

Shelter Providers of Utah

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

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Community Health Connect

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

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Health & Human Rights Project; 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.

04the grantee network

103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

100/103

Grantees still filing

87/103

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$16,673,002Human Services$9,422,946Education$2,935,056Health$1,961,207Crime & Legal$943,938Philanthropy$794,579Youth Development$631,988

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

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.

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.

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

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's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Utah's Promise Fka United Way of Salt Lake. Bigger dots raise more.

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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, 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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