United Way of Greater Salt Lake
Salt Lake City, UT · EIN 93-2854627. Reported 45 grants totalling $4,025,363 to 44 organizations across tax years 2023, 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 United Way of Greater Salt Lake, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for human services (NTEE P12).
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $46,500. Half of what it reported fell between $26,744 and $102,625; the smallest was $8,300 and the largest $527,660. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite School District | Salt Lake City, UT | $527,660 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of South Salt Lake | South Salt Lake, UT | $480,732 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salt Lake Community Action Program | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $398,105 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salt Lake Education Foundation | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $264,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Davis School District Davis Education Foundation | Farmington, UT | $181,908 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Millcreek | Millcreek, UT | $159,999 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Utah Inc | S Salt Lake, UT | $157,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Canyons School District Education Foundation | Sandy, UT | $143,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salt Lake County Youth Services | Salt Lake City, UT | $120,181 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Partners for Health | Midvale, UT | $112,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Children | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $102,625 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Latinos in Action Inc | Sandy, UT | $91,747 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Afterschool Network | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Open Doors Social Services | Clearfield, UT | $87,150 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Health Policy Project | W Valley City, UT | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Positive Coaching Alliance | Oakland, CA | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Ogden, UT | $59,125 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utahns Against Hunger | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $53,834 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Nursing Service | West Valley City, UT | $52,361 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Road Home | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $49,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| English Skills Learning Center | W Valley City, UT | $46,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Curly Me | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $43,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Catholic Community Services of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $41,501 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Asian Association of Utah | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $41,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| International Rescue Committee Inc | New York, NY | $41,499 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Pacific Islander Civic Engagement Coalition | Midvale, UT | $38,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Way of Central and Southern Utah | Provo, UT | $36,520 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nuanua Collective | Salt Lake City, UT | $34,281 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement of Utah Inc | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $33,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Park City School District Park City Education Foundation | Park City, UT | $32,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Center the Childrens Center Utah | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Christian Center of Park City | Park City, UT | $26,744 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Way of Northern Utah | Ogden, UT | $24,156 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Comunidades Unidas | W Valley City, UT | $20,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Midtown Community Health Center Inc | Ogden, UT | $20,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services Inc | Slc, UT | $20,750 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Independent Living Center Inc | S Salt Lake, UT | $17,408 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bountiful Community Food Pantry | Bountiful, UT | $16,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Maliheh Free Clinic | Millcreek, UT | $16,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Moab Valley Multicultural Center | Moab, UT | $16,402 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family Service | Salt Lake City, UT | $16,175 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Midvale Community Building | Midvale, UT | $8,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Peoples Health Clinic Inc | Park City, UT | $8,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Granite School District
EDUCATIONAL SERVICES AND SCHOOLS - OTHER; HELP PREPARE GRANITE SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH OPPOURTUNITES TO SUCCEED IN HIGHER EDUCATION, CAREER, & LIFE. - Utah Community Action
HUMAN SERVICES ORGANIZATION; EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE (FOOD, CLOTHES, CASH); KINDERGARTEN, NURSERY SCHOOLS, PRESCHOOL, EARLY ADMISSIONS - Salt Lake Center for Science Education (rose Park)
EXPANDED EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH WHO ATTEND SLCSE (ROSE PARK) BY ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY, BUILDING OUT A WELL-BEING ROOM AND EXPANDING EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING - Davis School District Davis Education Foundation
COLLECTIVE IMPACT, EITC PROGRAM & BASIC NEEDS - Big Brothers Big Sisters of Utah
PROVIDE CHILDREN FACING ADVERSITY W/STRONG & ENDURING, PROFESSIONALLY SUPPORTED 1-TO-1 RELATIONSHIPS THAT CHANGE THEIR LIFE FOR THE BETTER. - Canyons School District
WORKS IN TANDEM W/COMMUNITY & BUSINESS PARTNERS TO BUILD SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS& TO ADVANCE THE MISSION TO HELP EVERY STUDENT BECOME COLLEGE AND CAREER READY, & FIND MEANINGFUL PURPOSE IN LIFE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 44 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.
Where its money goes
97% 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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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 $46,500 -- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from United Way of Greater Salt Lake's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 1 return. Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 47 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: 257 E 200 South 300, Salt Lake City, UT, 84111.
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