Utah · Nonprofit
WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS
WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS (Utah) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,479,516 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($4,259,472). 52 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
WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,197 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,197 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundationshared funders
- The Giving Groveportfolio match
- Whole Cities 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 5% · 2018 9% · 2019 1% · 2020 7% · 2021 11% · 2022 15% · 2023 12% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $160k → $1.1M.
16 of 74 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.
From the IRS filings of WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 56%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 16% · 2019 36% · 2020 75% · 2021 24% · 2022 45% · 2023 18% — 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.
How long its funders stay
63% of WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
56% of WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS'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 $4.2M that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 74 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundationshared fundersUT · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- The Giving Groveportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Whole Cities Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blooming Prairie Fdn Inc Investment Agyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jensen Rasmussen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Marcus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- UNFI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aceso Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lydia B Stokes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Intermountain Community Care Foundation Incshared fundersUT · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Mainshared fundersMO · backs 50 organizations that share your funders
- Simmons Family Foundationshared fundersUT · backs 29 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 WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: 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 WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS?
- WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS (Utah) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,479,516 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($4,259,472). 52 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 WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $9,479,516 in grants to WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $4,259,472 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 74funders 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