Utah · Nonprofit
ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC
ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,748,931 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,668,250). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What ACLU of Utah Foundation Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to preserve and promote individual civil rights and civil liberties as guaranteed by the united states and utah constitutions and the civil rights laws within the state of utah.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education & outreach we offer valuable public education about civil liberties in general and the rights of specific marginalized groups in particular. Our goals have always been to empower the public to exercise their rights, and to be available to assistant the community in doing so. Through a variety of public events and rallies, hundreds of community members come together to exercise, advocate for, and educate others about their fundamental rights. We celebrate the achievements of community members and our partners through awarding a variety of awards to local civil rights activists and leaders.
$911,697 spent57% of program spendingLegal the aclu of utah foundation receives hundreds of requests for legal assistance from individuals each year through the mail, phone, and email. We review each inquiry and provide a customized response. We select legal cases to pursue according to criteria that include: the nature of the complaint, the impact of the issue beyond the individual complainant, the novelty of the issue, and the availability of alternative legal assistance. In addition to litigation, we undertake legal advocacy with local and state elected officials and policymakers.
$684,590 spent43% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,596,287.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.7M to $4.7M (+28%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $279k → $119k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 94% · 2019 71% · 2020 56% · 2021 45% · 2022 76% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
70% of ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 92% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $159k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Utah, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American Civil Liberties Union Utah · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC?
- ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,748,931 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,668,250). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,748,931 in grants to ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,668,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACLU OF UTAH FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing