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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 FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Arts & Culture$1.7MYouth Development$237kPublic Benefit$85kEducation$35kRecreation & Sports$28kHealth$16kHuman Services$13kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $465,450 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $698,400 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $232,950 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $178k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $101k
$8,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTAH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART$50,650
PLAN B THEATRE COMPANY$50,000
SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS$48,750
MESTIZO INSTITUTE OF CULTURE & ARTS$16,250
TANNER DANCE$14,750
BAD DOG ARTS$14,250
UTAH ARTS ALLIANCE$11,250
ASHLEY ADNERSON DANCES$11,150
UTAHPRESENTS$10,650
UTAH SYMPHONY UTAH OPERA$10,000
UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL$10,000
PERATROVICH LLC$10,000
OF SALT AND SAND$10,000
RIRIEWOODBURY DANCE COMP$10,000
CRAFT LAKE CITY$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UTAHPRESENTS: $18k → 8%TANNER DANCE: $15k → 8%TANNER DANCE: $15k → 8%TANNER DANCE: $14k → 8%TANNER DANCE: $14k → 8%UTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $13k → 8%TANNER DANCE: $13k → 8%UTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $12k → 8%TANNER DANCE: $12k → 8%UTAHPRESENTS: $11k → 8%UTAHPRESENTS: $11k → 8%PIONEER THEATRE COMPANY: $10k → 8%MESTIZO INSTITUTE OF CULTURE & ARTS: $16k → 8%SALT LAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $12k → 8%UTAH SYMPHONY AND OPERA: $12k → 8%SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY: $20k → 8%ASHLEY ADNERSON DANCES: $11k → 8%FRAMEWORK ARTS: $11k → 8%ARTES DE MEXICO EN UTAH: $15k → 8%UTAH ARTS ALLIANCE: $11k → 8%UTAH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $51k → 8%PLAN B THEATRE COMPANY: $50k → 8%SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $49k → 8%UTAH FILM CENTER: $22k → 8%UTAH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $19k → 8%UTAH FILM CENTER: $18k → 8%UTAH SYMPHONY UTAH OPERA: $18k → 8%UTAH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $17k → 8%PLAN B THEATRE COMPANY: $16k → 8%JUNCTION DANCE CO: $15k → 8%SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $15k → 8%BALLET WEST: $15k → 8%BAD DOG ARTS: $14k → 8%BAD DOG ARTS: $14k → 8%SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $13k → 8%SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $13k → 8%CRAFT LAKE CITY: $13k → 8%BAD DOG ARTS: $12k → 8%UTAH FILM CENTER: $12k → 8%RIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE COMP: $12k → 8%PLAN B THEATRE COMPANY: $12k → 8%PLAN B THEATRE COMPANY: $11k → 8%BAD DOG ARTS: $11k → 8%BALLET WEST: $11k → 8%RIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE COMP: $11k → 8%SALT LAKE ART CENTER: $11k → 8%ART ACCESS: $11k → 8%UTAH FILM CENTER: $11k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 34 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
20

Total granted

$1.9M
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

88%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UM
    Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
    8× · 2018–2025 · $131k · revenue +126%
  • SH
    SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $127k · revenue +40%
  • PT
    PLAN-B THEATRE COMPANY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • SL
    Salt Lake Education Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +12%
  • WU
    WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -14%
  • GS
    GREAT SALT LAKE FRINGE
    one grant, 2018 · $8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Cedar City Music Arts Association

Music & arts performances

Arts & Culture
3
Utah Valley Arts

Support various performing arts in utah.

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4
Excellence in the Community

Our mission is to create more and better performance opportunities for utah musicians. we produce public performances and offer them free to the public. by offering a wide range of styles and diversity of artists people come together to…

Arts & Culture
5
Utah Valley Operafest

Opera Education and Performance

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6
Utah Chamber Artists

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Utah Metropolitan Ballet

To bring world class ballet to utah and other audiences. to educate the community on the value of dance as an art and to give the opportunity for all ages to participate

Arts & Culture
8
Utah Arts Academy

Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students'…

Education
9
Salt Contemporary Dance Inc

Expand the awareness, reach and capacity of salt unique performances and festivals. continuously seek and create emerging and cutting-edge performances to stay at the most forefront of the dance industry. educate dancers and community…

Arts & Culture
10
Salt Lake Choral Artists

Through world-class performances, to provide opportunities for performer and listener alike to experience the transcendence, humanity and hope inspired by music.

Arts & Culture
11
Timpanogos Arts Foundation

The mission of the timpanogos arts foundation is to educate, enrich, and inspire by provising leadership and encoragement for artistic and cultural excellence, which enhances the quality of life for the people of american fork and…

Arts & Culture
12
Salt Lake Arts Academy

To prepare students to become confident and creative builders of their future, equipped through the arts and academics to take responsibility for shaping their communities.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Youth Enrichment Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…University Support Foundati…Recovery and Wellness Suppo…Affordable Housing Developm…Youth Sports and ActivitiesDisability Services and Com…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%10%<5yr15%10%5–10yr17%20%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr9%28%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%3%<5yr15%4%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr9%21%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/66
the rest of the field
15%
764/5,086

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/49
Grantees still filing
31/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Utah Museum of Contemporary Art — $131,400 · Arts & CultureUtah Museum of Contemporary ArtPLAN-B THEATRE COMPANY — $120,250 · Arts & CulturePLAN-B THEATRE COMPANYUTAH FILM CENTER — $98,600 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERTHE MUNDI PROJECT — $84,450 · Arts & CultureTHE MUNDI PROJECTUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $83,975 · Arts & CultureUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERAREPERTORY DANCE THEATRE — $81,475 · Arts & CultureREPERTORY DANCE THEATRESALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY — $78,750 · Arts & CultureSALT LAKE ACTING COMPANYBALLET WEST — $66,625 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute — $53,500 · Arts & CultureSALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $42,600 · Arts & Culture+21 more — $427,475 · Arts & Culture+21 moreUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $320,025 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHRIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE FOUNDATION — $71,825 · OtherRIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE FOUNDATIONFRAMEWORK ARTS INC — $39,500 · OtherFRAMEWORK ARTS INC+24 more — $195,850 · Other+24 moreSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS — $126,790 · Youth DevelopmentSPY HOP PRO…BAD DOG ARTS — $86,250 · Youth DevelopmentBAD DOG ART…TORREY HOUSE PRESS — $13,000 · EnvironmentOf Salt and Sand — $10,000 · EnvironmentSalt Lake Education Foundation — $12,000 · PhilanthropyKostopulos Dream Foundation — $11,450 · Recreation & SportsWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationSalt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services DBA Neighborworks Salt Lake — $6,000 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$1,269,100Other$627,200Youth Development$213,040Environment$23,000Philanthropy$12,000Recreation & Sports$11,450Education$10,000Housing & Shelter$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art — $131,400 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS — $126,790 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPLAN-B THEATRE COMPANY — $120,250 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $98,600 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBAD DOG ARTS — $86,250 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetTHE MUNDI PROJECT — $84,450 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA — $83,975 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetREPERTORY DANCE THEATRE — $81,475 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetSALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY — $78,750 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetRIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE FOUNDATION — $71,825 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetBALLET WEST — $66,625 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSundance Institute — $53,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $42,600 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCraft Lake City Corporation — $40,900 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetARTES DE MEXICO EN UTAH — $40,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetHEART & SOUL — $39,850 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetUTAH ARTS ALLIANCE — $38,900 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART — $38,650 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetArt Access — $33,600 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY — $32,900 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJUNCTION DANCE CO — $26,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetUTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC — $21,575 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetShango Music and Dance — $19,250 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetUtah Blues Society — $13,750 over 2y, 23% of budgetUtah Cultural Alliance Foundation — $13,200 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTORREY HOUSE PRESS — $13,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetUrban Indian Center of Salt Lake — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSalt Lake Education Foundation — $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKostopulos Dream Foundation — $11,450 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE — $11,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPYGMALION PRODUCTIONS INC — $10,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOf Salt and Sand — $10,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetRISE UP SCHOOL OF DANCE — $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetYouth Enrichment Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCreate Reel Change — $6,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSalt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services DBA Neighborworks Salt Lake — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPilar Pobil Legacy Foundation — $5,100 over 1y, 15% of budgetSALT LAKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetThe Leonardo — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Utah Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
  • Who funds SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds PLAN-B THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BAD DOG ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE MUNDI PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA ↗
  • Who funds REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds SALT LAKE ACTING COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds RIRIE-WOODBURY DANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BALLET WEST ↗
  • Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
  • Who funds SALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Craft Lake City Corporation ↗
  • Who funds ARTES DE MEXICO EN UTAH ↗
  • Who funds HEART & SOUL ↗
  • Who funds UTAH ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART ↗
  • Who funds Art Access ↗
  • Who funds THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds JUNCTION DANCE CO ↗
  • Who funds UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Shango Music and Dance ↗
  • Who funds SALTY CRICKET COMPOSERS COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds Utah Blues Society ↗
  • Who funds Utah Cultural Alliance Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TORREY HOUSE PRESS ↗
  • Who funds Urban Indian Center of Salt Lake ↗
  • Who funds Salt Lake Education Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Kostopulos Dream Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALT LAKE ↗
  • Who funds ASHLEY ANDERSON DANCES ↗
  • Who funds PYGMALION PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Of Salt and Sand ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

George S and Dolores …Lawrence & Janet Dee …Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…B W Bastian FoundationPacificorp Foundation…Marriner S Eccles Fou…McCarthey Family Foun…Larry H Miller and Ga…Hemingway FoundationEmma Eccles Jones Fou…The Diane and Sam Ste…
George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT55.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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