Utah · Nonprofit
English Skills Learning Center
English Skills Learning Center (Utah) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,195,801 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($317,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $316k
What English Skills Learning Center does
Mission
Integrates and strengthens communities through English language, literacy, and skills-based education for adult learners, delivered using a combination of professional staff and trained community volunteers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provides English language, literacy, and skills-based instruction through community-based and workplace programs. Instruction is delivered by leveraging a combination of professional staff and trained community volunteers across multiple sites in Salt Lake County.
$1,878,246 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,878,246.
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 2024 to 2025, from $228k to $620k (+172%).
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 42% · 2018 21% · 2019 20% · 2020 38% · 2021 38% · 2022 47% · 2023 43% · 2024 61% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of English Skills Learning Center’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Katie Donoviel
Executive Director
Board chair
Jacob Newman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $102k → $239k.
5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 English Skills Learning Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
English Skills Learning Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
39% 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 English Skills Learning Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 82% · 2019 46% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 27% · 2023 21% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of English Skills Learning Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
82% of English Skills Learning Center's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
English Skills Learning Center has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding English Skills Learning Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Homeland Security$1.2M
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 English Skills Learning Center
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for English Skills Learning Center: 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 English Skills Learning Center?
- English Skills Learning Center (Utah) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,195,801 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($317,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does English Skills Learning Center have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,195,801 in grants to English Skills Learning Center, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of English Skills Learning Center?
- SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $317,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like English Skills Learning Center 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 31 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