Utah · Nonprofit
CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY
CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY (Utah) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $850,383 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($251,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $688k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $850k
- Net assets
- $522k
What Conserve Utah Valley does
Mission
Conserve Utah Valley is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization committed to protecting and sustaining the treasured canyons, foothills, open spaces, and waters of utah valley. Conserve Utah Valley seeks to work collaboratively with all levels of government, the business community, and individuals to preserve spaces that add so much to our quality of life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community organizing:in 2024, grow the flow collaboratively organized several public facing events reaching thousands of community members across the watershed. The 2024 rally for great salt lake had more than 1200 utahns in attendance, and executive director ben abbott spoke to the audience on the importance of legislative accountability and the need for urgent action to restore the lake. In june 2024, grow the flow worked with the great salt lake yacht club to revive sailfest after a five year hiatus. The event was an overwhelming success with over 600 attendees, engagement from a diverse array of businesses, and participation from more than a dozen non-profits and state agencies working on great salt lake issues. Finally, the people's summit for great salt lake in september 2024 provided more than 230 people with a status report and opportunities to advocate on great salt lake. Executive director ben abbott presented on the lake's ecology, and managing director jake dreyfous presented on the success of the movement before facilitating a workshop to empower citizens to organize and facilitate candidate forums leading up to the 2024 elections.
$22,750 spent33% of program spendingLegislative engagement:during the 2024 legislative session, grow the flow ran weekly educational trainings to inform constituents and empower them to speak with state legislators in support of or against specific water related legislation. In total, more than 150 constituents participated, which allowed us to engage roughly 50% of the legislature throughout the session. This session, we hope to engage every member of the legislature through this effort.in october 2024, grow the flow and partnering organizations facilitated three candidate forums in utah county, tooele county, and cache county. These forums provided the public with a platform to express their concerns on regional water issues, and helped inform undecided voters decisions on election day. By training community members on how to thoughtfully work with elected officials, we were able to reach new constituencies, civically engage community members, and build sustainable relationships with leaders in the state house and senate.
$22,749 spent33% of program spendingConservation: after years of collaboration with state agencies, partner nonprofits, and community members, the provo river delta opened to the public. Conserve Utah Valley played an important role in this project's success by increasing public awareness and support, working with state and federal legislators, and designing new informational signs for the public to learn about the importance of the utah lake ecosystem. Cuv also successfully raised funds to protect 20 acres of farmland adjacent to the delta under easementthe burr family farmwhich will ensure this important buffer zone remains undevelopment in perpetuity.
$22,749 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,248.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $70k to $522k (+647%).
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.
100% of CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $85k.
5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY’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
CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
79% of CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY'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 $179k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Utah, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $672k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY: 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 CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY?
- CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY (Utah) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $850,383 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($251,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $850,383 in grants to CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $251,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSERVE UTAH VALLEY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 10 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