Utah · Nonprofit
Urban Food Connections of Utah
Urban Food Connections of Utah (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,790 to it, the largest being Downtown Alliance Inc ($260,290). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Urban Food Connections of Utah is better cushioned than half of the 1,749 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,749 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundationlocalportfolio match
- United Way of Greater Salt Lakelocalportfolio match
- The Mark and Kathie Miller Foundationlocalportfolio match
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.
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 23% · 2018 21% · 2019 20% · 2020 22% · 2021 42% · 2022 24% · 2023 41% · 2024 11% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of Urban Food Connections of Utah’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $53k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of Urban Food Connections of Utah’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
Urban Food Connections of Utah leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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: 2017 76% · 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of Urban Food Connections of Utah's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundationlocalportfolio matchUT · funds 125 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Greater Salt Lakelocalportfolio matchUT · funds 30 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Mark and Kathie Miller Foundationlocalportfolio matchUT · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Salt Lake Arts Council FoundationlocalUT · funds 59 organizations near you
- Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fair Food Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephen G and Susan E Denkers Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert S Carter Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beverley Taylor Sorenson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farmers Market Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oregon Farmers Markets Associationportfolio 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.
Government funding Urban Food Connections of Utah receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$19k
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 Urban Food Connections of Utah
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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
- Downtown Alliance Inc · exempt
- Utah Chamber · exempt
- Salt Lake Chamber Foundation · exempt
- Downtown SLC Presents · exempt
- Salt Lake Chamber Women's Business Center · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Urban Food Connections of Utah: 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 Urban Food Connections of Utah?
- Urban Food Connections of Utah (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,790 to it, the largest being Downtown Alliance Inc ($260,290). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Urban Food Connections of Utah have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $367,790 in grants to Urban Food Connections of Utah, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Urban Food Connections of Utah?
- Downtown Alliance Inc is the largest funder on record, with $260,290 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Urban Food Connections of Utah 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 4funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing