Utah · Nonprofit
THE ROAD HOME
THE ROAD HOME (Utah) receives grants from 213 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,526,104 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 135 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 213
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $38M
What The Road Home does
Mission
The primary mission is to help individuals and families step out of homelessness and back into the community in salt lake county. The Road Home meets this mission by providing housing-focused, emergency shelter programs, along with comprehensive housing services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency shelter: The Road Home provides housing focused, low-barrier emergency shelter services to men, women, and families with children at five resource center locations. The Road Home's emergency shelter programs are a community safety-net, providing refuge, relief, and resources to the community's most vulnerable citizens in four cities across salt lake county. During the year, The Road Home provided 394,783 nights of shelter to 5,332 people, including 958 children.
$18,230,817 spentof which $6,872,061 as grants59% of program spendingHousing: The Road Home is a housing focused organization that provides an array of housing supports to help individuals and families return to and maintain housing in the community. The agency's spectrum of housing services include: basic housing resources, obtaining necessary documents and id, utility debt removal, landlord negotiation and resources, deposit assistance, and short and long term rental assistance in addition to housing case management. During the year, The Road Home provided financial housing resources to 2,583 people to secure and maintain safe affordable housing for a total of 572,741 nights of housing.
$12,800,668 spentof which $310,504 as grants$3,151,272 earned by the program41% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $31,031,485.
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 2019 to 2020, from $18M to $36M (+99%).
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 54% · 2018 61% · 2019 61% · 2020 52% · 2021 66% · 2022 80% · 2023 70% · 2024 74% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of THE ROAD HOME’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Michelle Flynn
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 65 funders to 76 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.1M.
25 of 213 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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: $6.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jon M Huntsman Family Community Shelter Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ROAD HOME raised.
From the IRS filings of THE ROAD HOME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 213 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
THE ROAD HOME has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
48% 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 THE ROAD HOME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 40% · 2019 32% · 2020 18% · 2021 12% · 2022 12% · 2023 19% — 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
47% of THE ROAD HOME'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
82% of THE ROAD HOME's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
THE ROAD HOME runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE ROAD HOME receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $48.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$28.7M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$17.8M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.0M
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 THE ROAD HOME
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
- Housing Now LLC · disregarded
- Family Housing Solutions LLC · disregarded
- Shelter the Homeless II Lc · disregarded
- Sth Wendell LLC · disregarded
- Trh Psh LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ROAD HOME: 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 THE ROAD HOME?
- THE ROAD HOME (Utah) receives grants from 213 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,526,104 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 135 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ROAD HOME have?
- IRS filings report 213 organizations giving $21,526,104 in grants to THE ROAD HOME, 135 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ROAD HOME?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ROAD HOME 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 213 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