The Self-Reliance Charity
West Valley City, UT · EIN 87-0641691. Reported 61 grants totalling $1,461,271 to 46 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Self-Reliance Charity did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $9,105. Half of everything it gave fell between $3,097 and $20,000; the smallest was $538 and the largest $133,772. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Utah Food Bank | South Salt Lake, UT | $350,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Road Home | Midvale, UT | $300,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lds Church | Salt Lake City, UT | $208,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Gunlock Origins | South Jordan, UT | $133,772 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johnson Sharie | West Valley City, UT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coach Mike's Friends of Public Tennis | Salt Lake City, UT | $59,700 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| YWCA | Salt Lake City, UT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mental Health America | Salt Lake City, UT | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Emily Ann Jensen | West Valley City, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Ability Center | Park City, UT | $16,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alex Olekse | West Valley City, UT | $11,665 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Danielle B Henry Migraine Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Intermountain Healthcare Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,559 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Choice Humanitarian | Draper, UT | $10,050 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cally Wright | West Valley City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Utah Food Sharing | Richfield, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Christian Center of Park City | Park City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rachel Howell | West Valley City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tina Chytraus | West Valley City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lynn Mitchell | West, UT | $7,692 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kyler Pace | West Valley City, UT | $7,405 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nikole Lanier | West Valley City, UT | $6,602 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| South Summit Education Foundation | Kamas, UT | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kaela Hansen | West Valley City, UT | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Loreal Gaitan-Packard | West Valley City, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Melissa Goodman | West Valley City, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Interscholastic Cycling Association | Orinda, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Utah High School Cycling | American Fork, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Luke Commission | Sage, ID | $4,215 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Melody Griffiths | West Valley City, UT | $3,972 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Amy Christensen | West Valley City, UT | $3,923 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Holly Smith | West Valley City, UT | $3,389 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sara Hunter | West Valley City, UT | $3,388 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Barbara Ibarra | West Valley City, UT | $3,097 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Luna (fangfang Zhu) | West Valley City, UT | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brooke Adrian | West Valley City, UT | $2,440 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Diana Vega | West Valley City, UT | $2,032 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Josh Vesslee Foundation | Provo, UT | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Olexsandr Nazarenko | West Valley City, UT | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jessica Lee | West Valley City, UT | $1,697 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Crystal Cazier | West Valley City, UT | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sva University | New York, NY | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Utah Refugee Goats | Salt Lake City, UT | $1,390 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stefan Milovanov | West Valley City, UT | $827 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Taylor Delong | West Valley City, UT | $668 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lds | Salt Lake City, UT | $538 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
8 of 46 (17%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 41%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 15 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | $264,700 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 17 | $442,036 | $7,692 |
| 2023 | 18 | $440,358 | $6,401 |
| 2024 | 21 | $314,177 | $7,405 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Utah. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $9,105. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Utah.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Self-Reliance Charity's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 5396 West 2400 South, West Valley City, UT, 84120. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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