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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 FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$611kPublic Safety & Disaster$184kEnvironment$90kEducation$74kYouth Development$68kInternational$35kHuman Services$30kCommunity Improvement$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $124,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $168,424 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $44,174 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Anasazi State Park Museum$36,000
Fremont Indian State Park and Museum$20,000
Utah Presents$8,250
IJ and Jeanne Wagner Jewish Community Center$8,000
Kayenta Arts Foundation$8,000
Brolly Arts$8,000
Nafanua Foundation$8,000
University of Utah Prison Education Project$8,000
Utah Historical Society$7,000
Camp Floyd$7,000
Moab Music Festival$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Utah Chinese Association: $20k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$939k · 24 repeat orgs$349k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
27

Total granted

$939k
$327k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

67%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TH
    TORREY HOUSE PRESS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +82%
  • SH
    SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS
    3× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +37%
  • BA
    BROLLY ARTS
    3× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +11% · 45% of their budget

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +6%
  • UC
    UTAH CHINESE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -33%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAHgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +79%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Cedar City Music Arts Association

Music & arts performances

Arts & Culture
4
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…

Arts & Culture
5
Utah Arts Alliance

To foster the arts in all forms in order to create an aware, empowered, and connected community.

Arts & Culture
6
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
7
Utah Valley Operafest

Opera Education and Performance

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8
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
9
Western Heritage Foundation Inc

Held Annual Western Arts, Livestock & Heritage Festival

Environment
10
Oaxaca en Utah

To bring the Oaxaca culture to Utah

Arts & Culture
11
Utah Symphony & Opera

Mission - Connect the community through great live music. Vision - Perform, engage, inspire. The artistic leadership of the organization is committed to representing a broad range of musical styles, including traditional works,…

Arts & Culture
12
Entrada Institute

Entrada serves as an arts and educational center to promote public understanding and appreciation of the high desert Colorado plateau.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hutchings Museum; the most unlike its peers is Brolly Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 54 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
20/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $115,337 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHSTATE OF UTAH GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $84,233 · OtherSTATE OF UTAH GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $65,000 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYSOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY 01-65: $46,299 · OtherSOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY 01-65FRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA: $35,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN UTAH SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC: $35,000 · OtherWasatch Public Media: $35,000 · OtherMurray City Cultural Arts: $35,000 · OtherUintah County Heritage Museum: $30,000 · Other+18 more: $211,934 · Other+18 moreBROLLY ARTS: $44,000 · Arts & CultureBROLLY ARTSBOX ELDER MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureBOX ELDER MUSEUM FOUNDATIONALF ENGEN SKI MUSEUM FOUNDATION IN: $35,000 · Arts & CultureALF ENGEN SKI MUSEUM FOUNDA…EMERALD HILLS INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Arts & CultureEMERALD HILLS INSTITUTESILVER REEF FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSILVER REEF FOUNDATION INCCENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPR…HUTCHINGS MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureHUTCHINGS MUSEUMKAYENTA ARTS FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Arts & CultureUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $16,000 · Arts & CultureDINOSAUR AHTORIUM: $11,500 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $46,800 · Arts & Culture+6 moreTORREY HOUSE PRESS: $67,860 · EnvironmentGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC: $19,200 · EnvironmentALLEN & ALICE STOKES NATURE CENTER: $10,000 · EnvironmentSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $48,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTORY CROSSROADS: $23,800 · EducationPARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $16,000 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · EducationInternational Visitors Utah Council: $35,000 · InternationalUTAH CHINESE ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesLUPEC: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$692,803Arts & Culture$314,300Environment$97,060Youth Development$68,000Education$50,800International$35,000Human Services$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTORREY HOUSE PRESS: $67,860 over 5y, 13% of budgetSPY HOP PRODUCTIONS: $48,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBROLLY ARTS: $44,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetInternational Visitors Utah Council: $35,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA: $35,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBOX ELDER MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetALF ENGEN SKI MUSEUM FOUNDATION IN: $35,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN UTAH SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetEMERALD HILLS INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetSILVER REEF FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHUTCHINGS MUSEUM: $25,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSTORY CROSSROADS: $23,800 over 3y, 14% of budgetUTAH CHINESE ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - UTAH: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBetter Days 2020: $20,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetGRAND STAIRCASE - ESCALANTE PARTNERS INC: $19,200 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKAYENTA ARTS FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUtah Museum of Contemporary Art: $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWest Valley Arts Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLISTENERS COMMUNITY RADIO OF UTAH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDINOSAUR AHTORIUM: $11,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTAH PIONEER HERITAGE ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetTREEHOUSE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetZION CANYON MESA: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetEPICENTER: $9,234 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetIJ & JEANNE WAGNER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESONANCE: $8,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetNONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES OF UTAH: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOUNTAIN MEDIATION CENTER INC: $7,700 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $6,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTES DE MEXICO EN UTAH: $6,400 over 1y, 5.1% of budget
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.

George S and Dolores …Sorenson Legacy Found…The Community Foundat…Pacificorp Foundation…B W Bastian FoundationPark City Community F…Lawrence & Janet Dee …Salt Lake Arts Counci…Marriner S Eccles Fou…Dominion Energy Chari…David Kelby Johnson M…The Diane and Sam Ste…
George S and Dolores Dore Eccles FoundationUT33.7× affinity14 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 · 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Utah Humanities Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Utah Humanities Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    15report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Utah Humanities Council?

    Find your warmest path to Utah Humanities Council through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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