· Private foundation
Ascent Credit Union Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $6,248 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,091 |
| Ogden School Foundation | $1,500 |
| Childrens Services Society | $1,001 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Royal Family Kids Camp | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Weber School Foundation | $771 |
| Box Elder School Foundation | $771 |
| Individual grant recipient | $515 |
| Davis Mountain Bike Team | $500 |
| Ben Lomond High School | $500 |
| North Ogden Junior High | $474 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
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 (FY25–25, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +40% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- WCWeber County School District Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +255%
- EIENABLEUTAH INC2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue +10%
- BEBox Elder School District Foundation2× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- BHBonneville High Schoolone grant, 2023 · $4k
- WHWeber High Schoolone grant, 2023 · $2k
- WSWeber State CATapult Programone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…
Educate children in traditional academics and developmentally appropriate activities, as well as a biblical education to encourage their Christian development.
To provide resources and financial support to meet the unique need of the children and families served by the Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind (USDB).
To establish a school where each student gains the scholarly knowledge and skills vital to becoming a self-motivated, lifelong learner and to succeed in the rapidly evolving and complex world. This mission will be accomplished by using the…
We inspire and transform students with learning differences into confident, independent, and successful readers. We collaborate with colleagues and members of the community for the welfare and value of our diverse learners.
We improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our local community to provide resources and programs that focus on health, education, and income.
To ensure utah families have the freedom and access to choose the best fit for their childs education.
To promote student success in the Salt Lake City School District by using private donations to supplement children's educational experiences.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
To support the Tooele School District in education, literacy, and charitable purposes.
To prepare students to become confident and creative builders of their future, equipped through the arts and academics to take responsibility for shaping their communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Northern Utah and the most unlike its peers is Treehouse Children's Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 39 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 OGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Weber County School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds ENABLEUTAH INC ↗
- Who funds Box Elder School District Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN UTAH ↗
- Who funds WEBER HUMAN SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association Of Northern Utah ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ST ANNE'S CENTER ↗
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: The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundation · United Way of Northern Utah · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Ihc Health Services Inc · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Beaver Creek Foundation · Ralph Nye Charitable Foundation · Wasatch Peaks Foundation · James E & Norma Kier Charitable Foundation · Douglas & Shelley Felt Family Found · Wadman Foundation · America First Credit Union Charitable 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 Ascent Credit Union Foundation 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.