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GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON

GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON (Utah) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,495 to it, the largest being PATAGONIAORG ($11,808). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$61k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$396k
3/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Great Salt Lake Audubon does

Mission

Great Salt Lake Audubon, a chapter of the national audubon society, was founded in 1912 and is the oldest conservation organization in utah. This volunteer organization strives to meet its mission through volunteer opportunities, seminars, educational field trips, habitat restoration and informative general meetings with guest presenters. We also support state and local conservation efforts. Great Salt Lake Audubon is dedicated to protecting and enhancing habitat for wild birds, animals and plants, and to maintaining healthy and diverse environments for wildlife and people throughout the state.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. - birds 'n bites monthly meetings are still being conducted virtually, but we plan to add in-person meetings in the coming year. - education programs including monthly general meetings for members and the public, some specifically designed for children and families. Online offerings were extended to keep people engaged and we have expanded our indoor education programs. - special presentations in collaboration with the great salt lake institute at westminster college, including the annual fall forum education seminar. - bi-monthly distribution of the gsla newsletter, the pelican, highlighting conservation issues, field trip offerings, recent accomplishments of gsla, and notices of general interest. We are now issuing in digital format only to reduce environmental impacts. - sponsored approximately 95 birding field trips open to audubon members and the general public. Also provided over 30 different educational presentations/events to various public groups in addition to the birds 'n bites programs - sponsored the doyle w. Stephens research program, the great salt lake bird festival, international coastal cleanup and the great salt lake issues forum in partnership with friends of…

    $65,323 spentof which $29,350 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $65,323.

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 ($30k) Expenses 100 ($59k) Net assets 100 ($205k)2018 Revenue 245 ($73k) Expenses 51 ($30k) Net assets 121 ($247k)2019 Revenue 714 ($212k) Expenses 50 ($30k) Net assets 210 ($429k)2020 Revenue 141 ($42k) Expenses 58 ($35k) Net assets 213 ($436k)2021 Revenue 252 ($75k) Expenses 95 ($56k) Net assets 222 ($454k)2022 Revenue 172 ($51k) Expenses 83 ($49k) Net assets 223 ($456k)2023 Revenue 120 ($36k) Expenses 80 ($48k) Net assets 217 ($444k)2024 Revenue 168 ($50k) Expenses 147 ($87k) Net assets 199 ($407k)2025 Revenue 207 ($61k) Expenses 122 ($73k) Net assets 193 ($396k)
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Revenue (207)Expenses (122)Net assets (193)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 2018 to 2019, from $254k to $433k (+71%).

$210k
$254k
$433k
$440k
$460k
$461k
$449k
$420k
$411k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

69% of GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,989 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$30k
’17
$42k
’18
$182k
’19
$7k
’20
$19k
’21
$2k
’22
−$12k
’23
−$37k
’24
−$11k
’25
67
months of
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed10111112121216
Joined·+1+1+3+0+0+4
No longer listed·012000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $13k → $1k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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

GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

42% 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 GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON.

41%
largest funder
83%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 94% · 2022 100% · 2023 73% — 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

40% of GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 4 states in all.

NY
NJ
CA
UT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’20
’21
’23
Utah out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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

GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−18% · below the median
Months of reserve67.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 9%Fundraising 1%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

79%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

UT

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON?
GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON (Utah) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,495 to it, the largest being PATAGONIAORG ($11,808). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $28,495 in grants to GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON?
PATAGONIAORG is the largest funder on record, with $11,808 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREAT SALT LAKE AUDUBON 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 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