Utah · Public charity
Downtown SLC Presents
To promote cultural and artistic experiences in downtown salt lake city through placemaking, promotional activities, and programs that enliven the cultural core of the community throughout the year.
- $125k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $78k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $464k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Downtown SLC Presents funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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 | $78k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $117k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $25k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $61k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $29k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $41k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $34k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Utah | $117,410 | 1 | n/a |
| Vestar Gateway LLC | $53,100 | 3 | n/a |
| Downtown Alliance Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Seven Canyons Trust | $30,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Utah Arts Festival Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Fice Gallary | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation | $19,500 | 2 | 1% |
| One Small Miracle | $12,056 | 1 | 30% |
| Utah Arts Alliance | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pushing Ahead | $9,750 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Utah | $117,410 | 1 | n/a |
| Vestar Gateway LLC | $53,100 | 3 | n/a |
| Downtown Alliance Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Seven Canyons Trust | $30,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Utah Arts Festival Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Fice Gallary | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation | $19,500 | 2 | 1% |
| One Small Miracle | $12,056 | 1 | 30% |
| Utah Arts Alliance | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pushing Ahead | $9,750 | 1 | n/a |
| The Salt Lake Tribune Inc | $6,250 | 1 | 0% |
| The Urban Land Institute | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Downtown SLC Presents supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Downtown SLC Presents
- How much does Downtown SLC Presents give?
- Downtown SLC Presents reported 4 itemized grants totaling $78,150, out of $125,045 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Downtown SLC Presents fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (34%), Education (30%), Arts & Culture (21%).
- Who are Downtown SLC Presents's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Utah ($117k), Vestar Gateway LLC ($53k), Downtown Alliance Inc ($35k).
- Does Downtown SLC Presents fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Downtown SLC Presents?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Downtown SLC Presents based?
- Downtown SLC Presents is based in UT.
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