Utah · Nonprofit
Create Reel Change
Create Reel Change (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,500 to it, the largest being JOSEPH AND KATHLEEN SORENSON LEGACY FOUN ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $24k
- Net assets
- $100k
What Create Reel Change does
Mission
Mental Wellness Inspiration
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
We design and provide programs to inspire people with mental wellness issues and those in recovery, enabling expression through creative motivational connection.
$83,722 spentof which $51,800 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $83,722.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2025 to 2026, from $82k to $100k (+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.
66% of Create Reel Change’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Brian Higgins
Executive Director
Board chair
Antonio Lexerot
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $6k.
From the IRS filings of Create Reel Change’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
Create Reel Change leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 Create Reel Change.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 40% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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 Create Reel Change'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
Create Reel Change runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 435 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like Create Reel Change
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.
Public support
84%
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 Create Reel Change: 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 Create Reel Change?
- Create Reel Change (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,500 to it, the largest being JOSEPH AND KATHLEEN SORENSON LEGACY FOUN ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Create Reel Change have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $23,500 in grants to Create Reel Change, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Create Reel Change?
- JOSEPH AND KATHLEEN SORENSON LEGACY FOUN is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Create Reel Change 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 FY2026 (financials across 2022–2026), and the filings of 4 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