Utah · Nonprofit
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.
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.
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.
- Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Florence J Gillmor Foundationlocalportfolio match
- McCarthey Family Foundationshared funderslocal
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.
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: 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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.
- Henry W & Leslie M Eskuche Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchWI · funds 62 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Florence J Gillmor Foundationlocalportfolio matchUT · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- McCarthey Family Foundationshared funderslocalUT · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 92 organizations near you
- Siemer Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Park National Bank Employees' Community Service Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Tri County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Ways of Iowaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- FINRA Investor Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- M Lazy M Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Call Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joseph M Simmons Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grinnell Mutual Group Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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.
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