How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Utah?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Utah, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Nazarene Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Utah from out of state.

Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Utah?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Utah, $40M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Utah?

$387M reached 391 arts and culture organizations in Utah, from 1,459 funders. 38% came from funders also based in Utah.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Utah · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in Utah

$387M reached 391 arts and culture organizations in Utah, from 1,459 funders, with no single one dominating.

$387M

granted

391

organizations

38%

from in-state

The short version

1,459 funders gave $387M to 391 arts and culture organizations in Utah across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
38% of that came from funders also based in Utah; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in Utah is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $40M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Sundance Institute, at $81M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in Utah

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in Utah, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$40M 2The Nazarene Fund$20M 3Silicon Valley Community Foundation$14M 4Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$11M 5American Endowment Foundation$8M 6George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation$7M 7Sorenson Legacy Foundation$7M 8Tanner Charitable Trust$7M 9The Huntsman Foundation$7M 10Foundation to Promote Open Society$6M

Arts and culture organizations in Utah that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

381 other arts and culture organizations$112M

Sundance Institute$81M Utah Film Center$54M Our Rescue$48M Utah Symphony & Opera$32M Ballet West$18M Hale Centre Theatre$12M This Is the Place Foundation Inc$9M The Salt Lake Film Society$9M

How to find arts and culture funders in Utah

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Start with the funders already active in Utah
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in Utah are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Nazarene Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
62% of arts and culture money in Utah comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Utah.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Utah?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Utah, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Nazarene Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Utah from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Utah?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Utah, $40M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Utah?: $387M reached 391 arts and culture organizations in Utah, from 1,459 funders. 38% came from funders also based in Utah.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.