Utah · Public charity
Downtown Alliance Inc
Build a dynamic and diverse downtown Salt Lake City that is the regional center for culture, commerce and entertainment.
- $107k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $93k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,290
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 5
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Downtown Alliance Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $93k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $60k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $22k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $187k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $308k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $345k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $322k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downtown SLC Presents | $979,500 | 6 | 39% |
| Urban Food Connections of Utah | $260,290 | 7 | 10% |
| Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation | $37,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Urban Land Institute | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Utah Arts Alliance | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Denver Civic Ventures Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Utah Arts Festival Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation
How this is measured
About Downtown Alliance Inc
- How much does Downtown Alliance Inc give?
- Downtown Alliance Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $92,790, out of $106,590 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Downtown Alliance Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (87%), Food & Nutrition (6%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Downtown Alliance Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Downtown SLC Presents ($980k), Urban Food Connections of Utah ($260k), Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation ($37k).
- Does Downtown Alliance Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Downtown Alliance Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation.
- Where is Downtown Alliance Inc based?
- Downtown Alliance Inc is based in UT.
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