Utah · Nonprofit
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM (Utah) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,986,505 to it, the largest being The Community Foundation of Utah ($393,879). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Salt Lake Community Action Program does
Mission
The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Utah community action provides services designed to assist income eligible families and individuals on the path towards self-reliance. The agency serves 51,000 individuals each year through our six core programs: head start, adult education, case management & housing services, heat energy assistance, weatherization, and nutrition.head start provides early childhood education and care for over 1,999 vulnerable children ages 0-5. Head start is a no-cost, high-quality early education program that promotes school readiness through academic education, health assessment and support, social/emotional learning, and family well-being. We do this while engaging parents as partners in their child's development every step of the way. Additionally, our early head start child care partnership program brings together the best of early head start and childcare through partnerships that provide comprehensive and continuous services to infants and toddlers from low-income families, thereby expanding high-quality child-care options to families in need. In fiscal year 2025, head start served 1,563 children ages 3-5 and early head start served 437 children ages 0-3. Almost all of these children fall…
$30,032,725 spentof which $1,637,897 as grants$648 earned by the program68% of program spendingHousing & case management services focus on assisting individuals and families in achieving self-reliance through holistic case management. Clients receive assistance to stabilize housing, while engaging with our staff to maintain and improve employment, access educational opportunities, and ensure their health and well-being. - in fiscal year 2025, uca assisted 1,294 households, serving 3,844 individuals, including 384 individuals with disabilities and 159 seniors. Through these efforts, we provided more than $3.9 million in emergency rental assistance.in addition to case management and housing services, uca provides the coordinated intake and diversion services for the homeless system in salt lake county and staffs a coordinated intake line for the county to provide live bed location and resources for clients, providers and first responders. Uca began providing diversion services--assisting clients identify options alternative to shelter--in 2015 at the midvale family shelter. We have since expanded to provide diversion services for all the homeless resource centers in addition to the midvale family shelter and the weigand day center. In fiscal year 2025, uca conducted over…
$10,198,344 spentof which $4,146,175 as grants$285,730 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe weatherization program is a federally funded program that improves the safety and energy efficiency of homes for income eligible households in salt lake, tooele, weber, morgan, and davis counties. Weatherized homes save an average of $538 per year in home energy costs. In fiscal year 2025, utah community action weatherized 191 homes, serving 1,454 individuals, including 223 individuals with disabilities and 281 seniors. Services provided included insulation upgrades, ashrae fan replacements, window replacements, and the repair or replacement of water heaters and furnaces. Additionally, we delivered emergency services to more than 57 households experiencing a loss of heating or cooling.
$3,741,788 spent$59,578 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $43,972,857.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $22M to $29M (+30%).
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 82% · 2018 91% · 2019 92% · 2020 91% · 2021 95% · 2022 94% · 2023 95% · 2024 94% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Jennifer Godfrey
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Kelli Meranda
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $20k → $288k.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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: $2.7M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Utah's Promise). These are real filings, and they are not money SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM raised.
From the IRS filings of SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 30 funders by total. 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 COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
88% 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 SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 81% · 2019 43% · 2020 52% · 2021 40% · 2022 33% · 2023 37% — 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
41% of SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
76% of SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $744k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $274.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$274.0M
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 SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 1 related entity
- Uca Development · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: 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 COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM?
- SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM (Utah) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,986,505 to it, the largest being The Community Foundation of Utah ($393,879). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,986,505 in grants to SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM?
- The Community Foundation of Utah is the largest funder on record, with $393,879 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALT LAKE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM 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 30 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing