Utah · Public charity
Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation
To promote, present and support artists, arts organizations and arts activities in order to further the development of the arts community and to benefit the public by expanding awareness, access and participation.
- $698k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $465k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,650
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 37 | $465k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $215k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $264k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $325k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $217k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $218k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $251k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $218k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 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 | $320,025 | 8 | n/a |
| Utah Museum of Contemporary Art | $131,400 | 8 | 3% |
| Spy Hop Productions | $126,790 | 8 | 0% |
| Plan-B Theatre Company | $120,250 | 8 | 10% |
| Utah Film Center | $98,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Bad Dog Arts | $86,250 | 8 | 5% |
| The Mundi Project | $84,450 | 8 | 6% |
| Utah Symphony & Opera | $83,975 | 8 | 0% |
| Repertory Dance Theatre | $81,475 | 8 | 2% |
| Salt Lake Acting Company | $78,750 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 66 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 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: George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · B W Bastian Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · McCarthey Family Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · Hemingway Foundation · Emma Eccles Jones Foundation · The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation
- How much does Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation give?
- Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation reported 39 itemized grants totaling $465,450, out of $698,400 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (80%), Youth Development (11%), Public Benefit (4%).
- Who are Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: University of Utah ($320k), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art ($131k), Spy Hop Productions ($127k).
- Does Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation, Sorenson Legacy Foundation.
- Where is Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation based?
- Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation is based in UT.
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