Utah · Nonprofit
Salt Lake Chamber Foundation
Salt Lake Chamber Foundation (Utah) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,022,860 to it, the largest being WCF FOUNDATION ($550,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Salt Lake Chamber Foundation does
Mission
We stand as the voice of business, support our member's success and champion community prosperity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General programming: provide education and educational material to business leaders and employees ranging from educating small and start-up business entrepreneurs in all aspects of starting up and running a business to providing education programs for business leaders on community and public issues. Provide funding to 501 (c) (3) organizations who's programs support the mission of the foundation.
$534,617 spentof which $54,250 as grants$169,519 earned by the program46% of program spendingUtah Rising: A free enterprise vision for Utah's economy. Driven by proven principles, while outlining opportunities for ongoing success and sustainable growth, the vision will address critical issues with innovative, long term economic solutions for all who call Utah home. The mission of Utah Rising is to "lead private sector efforts and collaborate with public sector partners to secure statewide prosperity." Utah Rising will concentrate on six strategic focus areas: Utah's work force, transportation, business environment, housing, livability, and natural resources.
$416,985 spent36% of program spendingUtah Community Builders: Provide a forum to target and tackle community challenges, to provide a conduit for our business community to impact social good, and convene problem solvers, identify challenges, evaluate solutions, inform policy and facilitate changes for good in Utah.
$203,363 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,154,965.
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 2023 to 2024, from $671k to $1.9M (+189%).
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 26% · 2018 40% · 2019 54% · 2020 7% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Salt Lake Chamber Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Jeremy Hafen
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $25k → $43k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $40k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Utah Community Builders). These are real filings, and they are not money Salt Lake Chamber Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Salt Lake Chamber Foundation’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
Salt Lake Chamber Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 62% · 2022 91% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
33% of Salt Lake Chamber Foundation's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of Salt Lake Chamber Foundation's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k 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
Salt Lake Chamber Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Salt Lake Chamber Foundation
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 6 related entities
- Utah Chamber · exempt
- Downtown Alliance Inc · exempt
- Downtown Slc Presents · exempt
- Salt Lake Chamber Women's Business Center · exempt
- Urban Food Connections of Utah · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Salt Lake Chamber Foundation: 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 Salt Lake Chamber Foundation?
- Salt Lake Chamber Foundation (Utah) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,022,860 to it, the largest being WCF FOUNDATION ($550,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Salt Lake Chamber Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,022,860 in grants to Salt Lake Chamber Foundation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Salt Lake Chamber Foundation?
- WCF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Salt Lake Chamber Foundation 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 14 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