United Way of Northern Utah
Ogden, UT · EIN 87-0224251. Reported 31 grants totalling $3,852,060 to 24 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 United Way of Northern Utah, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 24 distinct organizations, with 50% 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. 0% 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 $9,200. Half of what it reported fell between $6,500 and $11,500; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $1,911,007. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
15 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $119,300 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Utahs Promise | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $1,921,007 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Association for Utah Community Health | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $917,321 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ogden City Police Department | Ogden, UT | $400,631 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southwest Utah Community Health Ct | St George, UT | $188,942 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southwest Behavioral Health Center | St George, UT | $150,812 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Weber Human Services | Ogden, UT | $70,045 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Utah Schools for the Deaf and Blind Education Foundation | Ogden, UT | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ycc Family Crisis Center | Ogden, UT | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Primary Children's Hospital | Salt Lake City, UT | $19,502 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Box Elder Community Pantry | Brigham City, UT | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Box Elder County School District Foundation | Brigham City, UT | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ok Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $13,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Young Mens Christian Association of Northern Utah | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $12,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Red Cross of Northern Utah | Ogden, UT | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Youth Futures | Ogden, UT | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Annes Center Inc | Ogden, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Community Services of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $9,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Youth Impact Incorporated | Ogden, UT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Promise of Ogden | Ogden, UT | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Family Counseling Service of Northern Utah Inc | Ogden, UT | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Summit Foundation | Ogden, UT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Utah Humanities Council | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Weber Adult Education | Ogden, UT | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Weber State University | Ogden, UT | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
6 of 24 (25%) 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 11 of 24 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 | 7 | $3,658,260 | $188,942 |
| 2022 | 8 | $64,500 | $7,250 |
| 2023 | 15 | $119,300 | $7,600 |
| 2024 | 1 | $10,000 | $10,000 |
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
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $9,200 -- 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 Northern 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.
Address of record on the latest return: 2955 Harrison Blvd Ste 201, Ogden, UT, 84403.
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