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DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL

DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL (Utah) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$209k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$40k
Net assets
$71k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Dixie Escalante Kite Festival does

Mission

Encourage reading and raise funds for local schools.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The annual kite festival was held on April 5, 2025. There were approximately 30,000 in attendance. During the festival approximately 2,665 children received free kites, books, or tickets for completing the reading program. The Organization donated $100,000 to the Washington County School Foundation.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($83k) Expenses 100 ($88k) Net assets 100 ($14k)2018 Revenue 95 ($79k) Expenses 85 ($75k) Net assets 130 ($18k)2019 Revenue 111 ($92k) Expenses 108 ($95k) Net assets 109 ($15k)2020 Revenue 66 ($55k) Expenses 55 ($48k) Net assets 159 ($22k)2021 Revenue 97 ($80k) Expenses 85 ($74k) Net assets 206 ($28k)2022 Revenue 146 ($121k) Expenses 150 ($132k) Net assets 131 ($18k)2023 Revenue 150 ($124k) Expenses 137 ($120k) Net assets 163 ($22k)2024 Revenue 252 ($209k) Expenses 183 ($160k) Net assets 526 ($71k)
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Revenue (252)Expenses (183)Net assets (526)Peer revenue range

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 $22k to $71k (+224%).

$14k
$18k
$15k
$22k
$28k
$18k
$22k
$71k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’17
$4k
’18
−$3k
’19
$7k
’20
$6k
’21
−$10k
’22
$4k
’23
$49k
’24
2.4
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL’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

DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL?
DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL (Utah) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,000 in grants to DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL.
Who is the largest funder of DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DIXIE ESCALANTE KITE FESTIVAL 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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