Utah · Nonprofit
Mormon History Association
Mormon History Association (Utah) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,569 to it, the largest being SMITH-PETTIT FOUNDATION ($28,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $367k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $699k
What Mormon History Association does
Mission
Mormon History Association is an independent organization dedicated to the study and understanding of all aspects of Mormon history; promoting its goals through scholarly research, conferences, awards, and publications.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Association publishes a scholarly journal, the "Journal of Mormon History," devoted to rigorously peer-reviewed articles and book reviews about Mormon history. The Journal is published quarterly. The Association also publishes a quarterly newsletter as a means of communicating with its members about past and forthcoming activities and events of interest to Association members.
$34,057 spent$8,002 earned by the program20% of program spendingThe Association holds an annual conference for all members, for the presentation of scholarly papers, panels, awards, fields trips, and other presentations and activites dealing with Mormon history.
$123,706 spentof which $3,200 as grants$159,088 earned by the program73% of program spendingEach year, awards of recognition are presented for best books, articles, and others deemed appropriate by the Association.
$11,050 spentof which $11,050 as grants7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $168,813.
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.
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 $579k to $699k (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Christine Blythe
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $13k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Mormon History Association’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
Mormon History Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 44% · 2022 52% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Mormon History Association's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.
Organizations like Mormon History Association
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 Mormon History Association: 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 Mormon History Association?
- Mormon History Association (Utah) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,569 to it, the largest being SMITH-PETTIT FOUNDATION ($28,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mormon History Association have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $65,569 in grants to Mormon History Association, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mormon History Association?
- SMITH-PETTIT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $28,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mormon History Association 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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