Utah · Nonprofit
GIV COMMUNITIES
GIV COMMUNITIES (Utah) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,326 to it, the largest being THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $246k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Giv Communities does
Mission
Giv exists to help blighted and transitional areas regrow via place. Its emphasis on comprehensive area planning, creative branding initiatives, and hands-in-the-dirt program facilitation serve as a type of connective tissue between city and citizen. We look to catalyze sustainable, vibrant, and lasting communities in the places, and for the people, that need it most.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Placemaking: in conjunction with rocky mountain power, continuing to make a catalytic 100-acre community redevelopment in salt lake city's under-resourced west side.
$569,636 spentof which $86,905 as grants$534,640 earned by the program65% of program spendingSpacemaking: continued work on developing 66 units of supportive housing in tooele, utah, as well as an adjacent community resource center, daycare, soup kitchen and shelter.
$307,995 spent$523,478 earned by the program35% of program spendingAdvocacy: Giv Communities created a new model for lihtc affordable projects that share the majority of all financial benefits of such properties with the low / moderate income residents that reside within them. This effort helped lead to the creation of a new nonprofit specifically chartered for that task: perpetual housing fund.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $877,631.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $581k to $1.5M (+156%).
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: 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of GIV COMMUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Chris Parker
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $110k → $8k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 GIV COMMUNITIES’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
GIV COMMUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 GIV COMMUNITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
GIV COMMUNITIES draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is 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.
Against its field
GIV COMMUNITIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GIV COMMUNITIES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Perpetual Housing Fund · exempt
- Community Housing of Utah · exempt
- Giv Development LLC · partnership
- Citizens West 3 LLC · partnership
- Citizens West 3 Gp LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIV COMMUNITIES: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GIV COMMUNITIES?
- GIV COMMUNITIES (Utah) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,326 to it, the largest being THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIV COMMUNITIES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $246,326 in grants to GIV COMMUNITIES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIV COMMUNITIES?
- THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIV COMMUNITIES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing