America First Credit Union Charitable Foundation
Ogden, UT · EIN 84-2568867. Reported 106 grants totalling $1,820,799 to 47 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 America First Credit Union Charitable Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 9% 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 much its list changes. 68% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $130,017. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
4 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $203,525 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intermountain Healthcare Foundation Inc | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $165,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Utah Diaper Bank | Sandy, UT | $130,017 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Utah Association of Public School Foundation | Farmington, UT | $123,892 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Davis Education Foundation | Farmington, UT | $110,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Safe Nest Temporary Assistance for Domestic Crisis Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $75,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc | Murray, UT | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Utah Food Bank | S Salt Lake, UT | $65,419 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Young Caring for Our Young Inc | Layton, UT | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Catholic Community Services of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $52,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Christmas Box International | S Salt Lake, UT | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Cathedral of the Madeleine | Salt Lake City, UT | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| For the Kids Org | Salt Lake City, UT | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| St Annes Center Inc | Ogden, UT | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Road Home | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Weber State University | Ogden, UT | $47,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $46,292 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Three Square | Las Vegas, NV | $42,474 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Child Crisis Arizona | Mesa, AZ | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul of Waukesha County Inc | Waukesha, WI | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ycc Family Crisis Center | Ogden, UT | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Justice for All | Chicago, IL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tabithas Way | Spanish Fork, UT | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Young Caring for Our Young | Layton, UT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arizona Diaper Bank | Tucson, AZ | $29,254 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Babys Bounty | Las Vegas, NV | $29,254 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Canyons School District Education Foundation | Sandy, UT | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Utah State University | Logan, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Serving Our Kids Foundation | Henderson, NV | $22,711 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jordan School District | West Jordan, UT | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Friends of the Coalition | Provo, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Valley Chamber | Sandy, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Weber County School District Foundation | Odgen, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc | Sparks, NV | $14,768 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Idaho Foodbank Warehouse | Meridian, ID | $13,787 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Three Square Food Bank | Las Vegas, NV | $10,331 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gods Garage Inc | Conroe, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Major Brent Taylor Leadership Legacy Foundation | North Ogden, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Roseman University of Health Sciences a Nevada Non-Profit Corp | Henderson, NV | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Turtle Shelter Project | Layton, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Northern Utah | Ogden, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Arizona Interscholastic Association Inc | Phoenix, AZ | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jumpstart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy | Kaysville, UT | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Treehouse Childrens Museum | Ogden, UT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ogden School Foundation | Ogden, UT | $6,600 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Box Elder Family Support Center Inc | Brigham City, UT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
22 of 47 (47%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 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.
- Utah Diaper Bank
270,868 diapers were distributed at an estimated shelf price of $0.48 per diaper. - Utah Association of Public Schools Foundation
General operational support - Intermountain Foundation Primary Childrens Hospital
The cash was provided for general operational support. The non-cash assistance consisted of 375 backpacks filled with school supplies. The backpacks were donated at a reported cost to acquire by the donor of $25. An average estimate of school supplies per backpack was $15 based on the cost to acquire at retail. - Davis Education Foundation
Donation to program that provides shoes for school kids - Young Caring for Our Young
General operational support for pantry pack - Baby's Bounty of Nevada
60,945 diapers were distributed at an estimated shelf price of $0.48 per diaper.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 of 47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 23 | $289,955 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 22 | $336,330 | $10,500 |
| 2022 | 18 | $286,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $195,331 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 27 | $713,183 | $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
78% 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
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 $10,000 -- 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 America First Credit Union Charitable Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 26 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: Po Box 9199, Ogden, UT, 84409.
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