Community Trust of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT · EIN 82-3365355. Reported 92 grants totalling $215.7M to 65 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Community Trust of Utah, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 65 distinct organizations, with 41% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 23% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $97,500. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $355,484; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $56.5M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints | Salt Lake City, UT | $89.5M | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Community Foundation of Utah | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $76.4M | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund | Boston, MA | $21.9M | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Huntsman Mental Health Foundation | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $5,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $3,851,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program | Malvern, PA | $2,700,897 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University Impact | Provo, UT | $2,373,056 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Intermountain Healthcare Foundation Inc | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $2,133,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| World of Difference Inc | Salem, UT | $1,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Donor Advised Charitable Giving | Lone Tree, CO | $1,493,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brigham Young University | Provo, UT | $1,137,176 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hale Centre Theatre | Sandy, UT | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Utah Symphony & Opera | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Utah State University | Logan, UT | $607,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Utah Prospects | Draper, UT | $466,556 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Deseret Trust Co | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $433,458 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Stand With Ukraine | Bountiful, UT | $420,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Valley University | Orem, UT | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Charityvision International Inc | Provo, UT | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Utah Youth Village | Holladay, UT | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Zion Natural History Association | Springdale, UT | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fund for Charitable Giving | Pittsburgh, PA | $209,929 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $208,222 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boise State University Foundation Inc | Boise, ID | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| International Crisis Aid Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $151,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hope Arising Inc | Gilbert, AZ | $133,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| I Am Here Ministries | Huntingtn Bch, CA | $118,045 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Salem City | $104,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Council for Exceptional Children | Arlington, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Liahona Inc | Pleasant Grv, UT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Other Side Academy | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Salt Lake Community College | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Treasure Valley Inc | Boise, ID | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Utahs Promise | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation | Cedar Hills, UT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Warrior Rising | South Jordan, UT | $98,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Utah Food Bank | S Salt Lake, UT | $87,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| National Ability Center | Park City, UT | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dreamflight USA Inc | Goldenrod, FL | $51,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cache Community Food Pantry Inc | Logan, UT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Center the Childrens Center Utah | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ken Garff for Good | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Overland One Foundation | Mtn Green, UT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Salt Lake Community College Foundation | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Citizens Against Physical and Sexual Abuse Inc | Logan, UT | $48,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Indian Services | Lehi, UT | $42,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Humanitarian Outreach and Intercultural Exchange | Draper, UT | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Interweave Solutions | Provo, UT | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Unit Foundation | Vass, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Meeteetse Recreation District | Meeteetse, WY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Road Home | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Generationall | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Snowbird Sports Education Foundation Inc | Cottonwood Heights, UT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Davis Education Foundation | Farmington, UT | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Autism Resources and Education Systems | Hurricane, WV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Parowan City Corporation | Parowan, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salt Lake City Mission | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salt the Earth | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stable Strides Farm | Argyle, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Team Utah Snowboarding Inc | Millcreek, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tabithas Way | Spanish Fork, UT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Royal Kids | Sandy, UT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Our Rescue | Sandy, UT | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cache Education Foundation | North Logan, UT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
17 of 65 (26%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 52 of 65 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 34 | $138.9M | $154,109 |
| 2022 | 18 | $30.5M | $91,251 |
| 2023 | 26 | $14.7M | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 14 | $31.6M | $21,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
87% of its giving went to organizations in Utah. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $97,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Utah.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Community Trust of Utah's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1245 Brickyard Road Ste 410, Salt Lake City, UT, 84106.
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