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Utah Humanities Council
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents special events including an annual state-wide book festival; and offers modest grants to nonprofit…
- $168k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $124k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $36,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Utah Humanities Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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 | 7 | $124k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $78k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $31k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $314k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $306k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $435k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 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 | $115,337 | 4 | n/a |
| State of Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development | $84,233 | 2 | n/a |
| Torrey House Press | $67,860 | 5 | 13% |
| Utah State University | $65,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Spy Hop Productions | $48,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Utah University 01-65 | $46,299 | 3 | n/a |
| Brolly Arts | $44,000 | 3 | 45% |
| International Visitors Utah Council | $35,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Friends of Cedar Mesa | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Box Elder Museum Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | 41% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Utah | $115,337 | 4 | n/a |
| State of Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development | $84,233 | 2 | n/a |
| Torrey House Press | $67,860 | 5 | 13% |
| Utah State University | $65,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Spy Hop Productions | $48,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Utah University 01-65 | $46,299 | 3 | n/a |
| Brolly Arts | $44,000 | 3 | 45% |
| International Visitors Utah Council | $35,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Friends of Cedar Mesa | $35,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Box Elder Museum Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | 41% |
| Alf Engen Ski Museum Foundation In | $35,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Southeastern Utah Society of Arts and Sciences Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Wasatch Public Media | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Murray City Cultural Arts | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Uintah County Heritage Museum | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Emerald Hills Institute | $30,000 | 2 | 30% |
| Silver Reef Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Center for Documentary Expression and Art | $25,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Hutchings Museum | $25,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Story Crossroads | $23,800 | 3 | 14% |
| Utah Chinese Association | $20,000 | 1 | 23% |
| Friends of the Children - Utah | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Better Days 2020 | $20,000 | 1 | 38% |
| Grand Staircase - Escalante Partners Inc | $19,200 | 3 | 1% |
| International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers | $17,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Park City Historical Society | $16,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Kayenta Arts Foundation | $16,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Utah Museum of Contemporary Art | $16,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Books & Bridges | $15,500 | 1 | n/a |
| John Wesley Powell River History Museum | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| West Valley Arts Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Listeners Community Radio of Utah Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ogden City - Cares Grants | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dinosaur Ahtorium | $11,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Westminster University | $11,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Utah Pioneer Heritage Arts | $10,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Utah Arts & Cultural Coalition dba Utah Cultural Alliance | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kanab Writers Conference | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Salt Lake City Arts Council | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lupec | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Allen & Alice Stokes Nature Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bryner Pioneer Museum Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Treehouse Children's Museum | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Zion Canyon Mesa | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Epicenter | $9,234 | 1 | 4% |
| Ij & Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Resonance | $8,000 | 1 | 47% |
| Nonprofit Legal Services of Utah | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bluff Community Foundation | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nafanua Foundation | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mountain Mediation Center Inc | $7,700 | 1 | 2% |
| Utah Film Center | $6,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Artes de Mexico En Utah | $6,400 | 1 | 5% |
| Moab Music Festival Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Utah Humanities Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 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 · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · B W Bastian Foundation · Park City Community Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation · Marriner S Eccles Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Utah Humanities Council
- How much does Utah Humanities Council give?
- Utah Humanities Council reported 11 itemized grants totaling $124,250, out of $168,424 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Utah Humanities Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Public Safety & Disaster (16%), Environment (8%).
- Who are Utah Humanities Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Utah ($115k), State of Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development ($84k), Torrey House Press ($68k).
- Does Utah Humanities Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Utah Humanities Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation, Sorenson Legacy Foundation, The Community Foundation of Utah.
- Where is Utah Humanities Council based?
- Utah Humanities Council is based in UT.
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