· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Seven Canyons Trust | $30,000 |
| Fice Gallary | $20,000 |
| Vestar Gateway LLC | $18,400 |
| Pushing Ahead | $9,750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UAUTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2022 · $20k · revenue +2%
- SLSALT LAKE ARTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +151%
- UAUTAH ARTS ALLIANCE2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF UTAHone grant, 2024 · $117k
- DADowntown Alliance Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +46%
- OSOne Small Miracleone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -51% · 30% of their budget
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To serve as a catalyst for quality job growth and increased capital investment in the state.
The Utah Chamber Artists (UCA) is a world renowned, not-for-profit organization founded in 1991 to provide audiences with an artistic force that provides a wide variety of music of the highest caliber, presented in the finest manner. UCA…
Music & arts performances
Support various performing arts in utah.
To assist governmental units, developers and the public with land use issues.
Trails Utah is dedicated to trails advocacy, planning, funding, and construction in needed areas throughout the state.
Scenic Utah is working to protect and enhance the scenic qualities of our communities, countryside, and roadways. We partner with diverse groups who share the common goal of safeguarding the remarkable visual character of the Beehive…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Downtown SLC Presents funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Downtown SLC Presents. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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