Utah · Nonprofit
Ability 1st Utah
Ability 1st Utah (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,573 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($102,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Ability 1st Utah runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Intermountain Community Care Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Florence J Gillmor Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Utah's Promiseshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 97% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 96% · 2021 98% · 2022 95% · 2023 97% · 2024 98% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Ability 1st Utah’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $10k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Ability 1st Utah’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Ability 1st Utah leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Ability 1st Utah.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
80% of Ability 1st Utah's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $26k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Utah, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $103k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Intermountain Community Care Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchUT · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Florence J Gillmor Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchUT · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Utah's Promiseshared fundersportfolio matchUT · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central and Southern Utahlocalportfolio matchUT · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Herbert I & Elsa B Michael Foundation US Bank National Associationshared fundersportfolio matchMN · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchWI · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Marriner S Eccles Foundationshared fundersUT · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- American United Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kennecott Utah Copper Visitors Center Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Castle Foundation Co Greg Phillipsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Val a Green & Edith D Green Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Greater Salt Lakeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Ability 1st Utah receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $361k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$361k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Ability 1st Utah
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ability 1st Utah: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Ability 1st Utah?
- Ability 1st Utah (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,573 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($102,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Ability 1st Utah have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $128,573 in grants to Ability 1st Utah, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ability 1st Utah?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $102,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ability 1st Utah find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing