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UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE

UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE (Utah) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,029,317 to it, the largest being THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($350,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$8.6M
Revenue FY2025
11
Funders on record
$1.0M
Grants received
$3.6M
Net assets
2/11 repeat funders

Against its field

UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−34% · bottom quartile

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.

100 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($10M) Net assets 100 ($2.9M)2025 Revenue 66 ($8.6M) Expenses 82 ($8.3M) Net assets 122 ($3.6M)
20242025
Revenue (66)Expenses (82)Net assets (122)Peer revenue range

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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 7% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.9M
24
$317k
25
1.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.

5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)56% 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: $7.4M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Salt Lake). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE raised.

From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE’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

UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE.

34%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 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

56% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE'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 $455k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Utah, across 4 states.

NY
CT
UT
NE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
Utah out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $575k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

03Its place in the field

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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 10%Fundraising 12%

Governance

27
board members
96%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Utah's Promise · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE: 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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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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE?
UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE (Utah) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,029,317 to it, the largest being THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($350,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,029,317 in grants to UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE?
THE GOLDMAN SACHS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF GREATER SALT LAKE 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 11funders 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