Utah · Nonprofit
UTAH'S PROMISE
UTAH'S PROMISE (Utah) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,998,615 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($10,000,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UTAH'S PROMISE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy 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.
- Simmons Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundationshared funders
- The McGuire Family Foundationportfolio 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 13% · 2019 13% · 2020 13% · 2021 13% · 2022 21% · 2023 12% · 2024 30% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of UTAH'S PROMISE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $844k → $4.3M.
22 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $7.8M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ihc Health Services Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UTAH'S PROMISE raised.
From the IRS filings of UTAH'S PROMISE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 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
UTAH'S PROMISE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
76% 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 UTAH'S PROMISE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 20% · 2019 34% · 2020 49% · 2021 55% · 2022 40% · 2023 46% — growing more concentrated.
“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 UTAH'S PROMISE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
UTAH'S PROMISE draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 98 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Simmons Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchUT · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundationshared fundersUT · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- The McGuire Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- America's Promise the Alliance for Youthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jacquelyn & Gregory Zehner Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McCarthey Family Foundationshared funderslocalUT · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 92 organizations near you
- Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundationshared funderslocalUT · backs 110 organizations that share your funders · funds 125 organizations near you
- Sorenson Legacy Foundationshared fundersUT · backs 176 organizations that share your funders
- Joan and Tim Fenton Family Foundationshared funderslocalUT · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · funds 65 organizations near you
- Beesley Family Foundationshared fundersUT · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Cross Charitable Foundation Attn John R Clarkshared fundersMT · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Ally Charitable Foundationshared fundersNC · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
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 UTAH'S PROMISE
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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
- United Way of Greater Salt Lake Dba United Way of Salt Lake · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UTAH'S PROMISE: 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 UTAH'S PROMISE?
- UTAH'S PROMISE (Utah) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,998,615 to it, the largest being BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ($10,000,000). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UTAH'S PROMISE have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $33,998,615 in grants to UTAH'S PROMISE, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UTAH'S PROMISE?
- BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UTAH'S PROMISE 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 98funders 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