Utah · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART
CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART (Utah) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,150 to it, the largest being SALT LAKE ARTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION ($38,650). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $112k
- Net assets
- $339k
What Center for Documentary Expression and Art does
Mission
The Center for Documentary Expression and Art (cdea) is dedicated to using the tools of documentary workoral history, photography, film making, narrative writing, visual art, and music to help utahns look inward to better understand our state's past and present and to gaze outward to discover our multi-faceted connection to the nation and the world. Cdea creates and supports projects that examine and honor the cultural, spiritual, and ethnic identities of our nation's diverse population in forums wherein we can acknowledge differences, establish common ground, and hence, build community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization realizes its mission by developing documentary projects that use some or all of the facets of documentary work, which is defined as: oral histories, photography, video, visual art, research, oral storytelling, and narrative. A project may use some or all the features of documentary work. For example, a project may develop a traveling photography exhibit with audio guides and a publication; or a project may rely on traditional oral histories with accompanying still photographs; or a project may aim to produce a series of short films with a website. There are many effective ways to present documentary work. Cdea projects that produce traveling exhibits are accompanied by multi- faceted, education-outreach programs and fall into two categories: (1) major exhibits created for large museums that contain national subject matter infused with significant human rights issues, and (2) educational exhibits designed primarily for use by utah's k-12 public school students, community centers, libraries, and smaller museums that explore the state's and nation's multi-cultural history and environmental issues. Exhibits traveling inside utah are presented under the title…
$135,611 spent$6,099 earned by the program94% of program spendingDocumentary projects resulting in place-based education (pbe)- artists/scholars-in-residence (asir) programs place-based education displays are smaller than major exhibits and are designed for use in utah's k-12 public schools, public libraries, and rural museums. Exhibits contain photographs and oral histories (with related didactic text). They are booked from four-to-eight weeks at each educational site. Four place-based education displays are currently available. In order of their development, they are: - faces and voices of refugee youth (2002); - sacred images: a vision of native american rock art (2007); - reawakened beauty: the past, present, and future of the jordan river (2009); and justice-memory-artivism (2014). Three of the above exhibits (sacred images; reawakened beauty; and justice-memory-artivism) accompany cdea-designed artists/scholars-in- residence (asir) programs and are designed to engage k-12 students in intensive, place-based projects that promote study and practice of the documentary arts; generate original student art; and integrate arts learning with learning in other subjects. Place-based education displays and their accompanying artists/scholars-in-…
$8,014 spent$6,000 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $143,625.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $300k to $363k (+21%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 41% · 2018 59% · 2019 67% · 2020 73% · 2021 65% · 2022 57% · 2023 66% · 2024 55% · 2025 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Russell Y Minas
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $14k.
From the IRS filings of CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART’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
CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 67% · 2022 74% · 2023 64% — 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.
Where its funders are
79% of CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $201k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$185k
- Department of the Interior$16k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART: 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 CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART?
- CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART (Utah) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,150 to it, the largest being SALT LAKE ARTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION ($38,650). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $112,150 in grants to CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART?
- SALT LAKE ARTS COUNCIL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $38,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY EXPRESSION AND ART 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 5 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