Your Land Your Plan

A field of interest fund held at the Community Foundation of Utah, founded by Intermountain Health and Zions Bank, focused on supporting public-asset-based planning and engagement.

The Your Land Your Plan Fund empowers cities, schools, counties and other local public landowners statewide to confidently manage their real estate assets. It supports planning projects, community engagement initiatives, and educational programs that unlock the potential of those assets to build healthier economies and communities.

• The professional practice of identifying, assessing, and managing publicly owned real estate assets for best public use, as determined by the communities that own them, considering individual assets as well as the overall asset portfolio. Strategies include selling, leasing, trading, maintaining, preserving, rehabilitating, commercially developing or other use and disposition activities related to asset use.
• It can involve commercial endeavors, generating returns that flow back to public budgets to be invested in transportation and utility infrastructure, housing, education, and other critical needs.
• Can also make land available for community needs including transportation and transportation infrastructure and active transit access, housing, education and employment centers, service facilities, food outlets, open space, and more.
• Assumes that public asset portfolio development that doesn't prioritize new public revenue yield is at worst not sustainable and at best short-sighted. Also assumes that addressing multiple social drivers of health (SDOH) in project development is always possible and that targeting only one in isolation (i.e., housing) and may not be sustainable.

The conditions in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.

Social Drivers of Health:

• Housing Stability
• Food Security
• Economic Wellbeing
• Access to Transportation
• Access to Education
• Family & Social Support
• Utility Needs
• Health Behaviors

Counties, cities, towns, and K-12 school districts in Utah.

Opens: January 15, 2026

Closes: April 15, 2026

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• General information on the project and community: population, median household income, housing affordability, unemployment rate of area, and key community challenges related to land use or addressing the SDOH.
• If applicable and available, you will be asked to share a recent strategic plan, dedicated staff or partnerships working on public assets, and if your municipality has received any state planning grants.
• Details on the intended scope and implementation plan of your project, including core objectives and a description of the public asset(s) involved. You will also need to document the community need and how your project will advance community wellbeing, fiscal health, or resilience.
• Prepare to list project timelines, partnerships, outcomes, long term impacts, grant amount requested, and provide a project budget.

$10K–$25K depending on which award category is selected in application.

• Mapping & Record Keeping – Communities that are at the beginning of their real estate asset management journey and are working to create a central repository of real asset information (mapping, record cleanup, etc.).
• Strategy – Communities that know what they own, and are working to create areal estate asset management strategy that serves long term community goals.
• Projects – Funds for specific real estate development projects (likely used for soft costs, planning, architect, etc.).

The number of grants depends on the types of applications received. Requests for Mapping & Record Keeping or Strategy typically require smaller amounts, allowing us to fund more projects. Applications for Projects often involve higher costs, which means fewer awards. Overall, the range could be anywhere from a few awards to several dozen, depending on demand, applications submitted, and the advisory committee’s funding decision.

The YLYP Fund prioritizes projects that strengthen public land and public real estate stewardship, including efforts that improve asset data, mapping, record-keeping, and governance. The Fund also supports long-term strategies that help local public landowners make informed, community-centered decisions about how their properties are used over time. Priority is given to projects that address critical community needs such as housing, economic opportunity, and access to services through better use of public assets. Projects that help translate these assets into durable community value, rather than one-time isolated outcomes, are especially encouraged.

The Advisory committee will score the applications based on alignment with fund purpose, clarity of request, collaboration, rural/low-income focus, housing and transportation integration, and alignment with local/regional plans.

• Has a clear project scope and funding request.
• Aligns with state goals and programs as well as with local/regional plans.
• Collaborates across jurisdictions or between other public landowners.
• Focuses on or supports rural or underserved communities. 

June 1, 2026.

The YLYP Advisory committee, which consists of representatives from Zions Bank and Intermountain Health, will make the final grant decisions.

Awardees will be asked to provide a brief follow-up update or report describing how grant funds were used and the progress or outcomes of the supported project in June 2027. The YLYP Fund team may also reach out during or after the grant period with questions or requests to better understand lessons learned.

In some cases, we may ask to highlight funded projects through communications or case studies to help inform and improve the program as it evolves.

One per entity per funding cycle.

We anticipate that this initial round will serve as a pilot to gauge interest and assess how well the fund meets public landowners’ needs. Our goal is to offer multiple grant opportunities over the fund’s five-year horizon, but this will depend on several factors:

1. Level of interest and number of applications received.
2. Community needs identified through this round.
3. Availability of future funding.

If demand is strong and resources allow, we hope to continue offering additional rounds in the coming years.

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