Utah · Nonprofit
Downtown SLC Presents
Downtown SLC Presents (Utah) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,950 to it, the largest being JEFFREY S AND HELEN H CARDON FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Downtown SLC Presents runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Salt Lake Arts Council Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Marriner S Eccles Foundationshared funders
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.
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 6% · 2018 50% · 2019 73% · 2020 41% · 2021 71% · 2022 89% · 2023 81% · 2024 79% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Downtown SLC Presents’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $141k → $10k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $1000k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Downtown Alliance Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Downtown SLC Presents raised.
From the IRS filings of Downtown SLC Presents’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
Downtown SLC Presents leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 71% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 Downtown SLC Presents's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Salt Lake Arts Council Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchUT · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · funds 59 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchUT · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Marriner S Eccles Foundationshared fundersUT · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Utah Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western States Arts Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizonaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McCarthey Family Foundationshared funderslocalUT · backs 74 organizations that share your funders · funds 97 organizations near you
- Mid-America Arts Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Performance Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beverley Taylor Sorenson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Downtown SLC Presents
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 6 related entities
- Downtown Alliance Inc · exempt
- Utah Chamber · exempt
- Salt Lake Chamber Foundation · exempt
- Salt Lake Chamber Women's Business Center · exempt
- Urban Food Connections of Utah · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Downtown SLC Presents: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Downtown SLC Presents?
- Downtown SLC Presents (Utah) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $190,950 to it, the largest being JEFFREY S AND HELEN H CARDON FOUNDATION ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Downtown SLC Presents have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $190,950 in grants to Downtown SLC Presents, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Downtown SLC Presents?
- JEFFREY S AND HELEN H CARDON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Downtown SLC Presents 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing