Utah · Nonprofit
WGU LABS
WGU LABS (Utah) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,216,516 to it, the largest being Western Governors University ($19,158,216). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Salt Lake Arts Council Foundationlocal
- Great Jobs Kc Incportfolio match
- The Robert D and Patricia E Kern Family Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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: 2019 21% · 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $12M → $7.9M.
From the IRS filings of WGU LABS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
WGU LABS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2021 91% · 2022 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 WGU LABS'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.
- Salt Lake Arts Council FoundationlocalUT · funds 59 organizations near you
- Great Jobs Kc Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert D and Patricia E Kern Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eminger Stewart Foundation Umaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norwich Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trustees of Clark Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nfpa Education & Technology Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carnegie Mellon Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paul Millsap Foundation Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Agc Education and Research Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Homer Ip B Watts Memorial Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Incportfolio 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 WGU LABS
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 7 related entities
- Wgu Labs Management LLC · disregarded
- Wgu Labs General Partnership LLC · disregarded
- WGU Corporation · exempt
- Western Governors University · exempt
- Wgu Advancement · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WGU LABS: 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 WGU LABS?
- WGU LABS (Utah) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,216,516 to it, the largest being Western Governors University ($19,158,216). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WGU LABS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,216,516 in grants to WGU LABS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WGU LABS?
- Western Governors University is the largest funder on record, with $19,158,216 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WGU LABS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 2funders 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