The Policy Project
Salt Lake City, UT · EIN 87-3544416. Reported 29 grants totalling $1,736,127 to 29 organizations across tax years 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 The Policy Project, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in public & societal benefit (NTEE W01).
- How spread out its giving is. 29 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 $40,000. Half of what it reported fell between $30,000 and $53,500; the smallest was $6,163 and the largest $224,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $6,163 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davis Education Foundation | Farmington, UT | $224,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tooele County School District Education Foundation Inc | Tooele, UT | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Sanpete School District | Manti, UT | $160,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Weber County School District Foundation | Odgen, UT | $127,619 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Washington County School District | St George, UT | $126,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Millard School District | Delta, UT | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ogden School Foundation | Ogden, UT | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Canyons School District | Sandy, UT | $53,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kane School District | Kanab, UT | $42,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Carbon School District | Sandy, UT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grand County School District | Moab, UT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Iron County School District | Cedar City, UT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Juab School District | Nephi, UT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Morgan School District | Morgan, UT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Sanpete School District | Mt Pleasant, UT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pinnacle Canyon Academy | Price, UT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Piute School District | Junction, UT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Richfield Residential Hall School Board Inc | Richfield, UT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Uintah School District | Naples, UT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Salt Lake Education Foundation | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $38,845 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alpine School District | American Fork, UT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jordan School District | West Jordan, UT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Logan City School District | Logan, UT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nebo School District | Spanish Fork, UT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Park City School District | Park City, UT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rockwell Charter High School | Ogden, UT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Walden School | Provo, UT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wasatch County School District | Heber City, UT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Larry H Miller & Gail Miller Family Foundation | Sandy, UT | $6,163 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 8 of 29 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
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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 $40,000 -- 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 The Policy Project's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2022-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 29 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: 1607 E Yalecrest Ave, Salt Lake City, UT, 84105.
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