Utah · Nonprofit
NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION
NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,300 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($130,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $162k
- Net assets
- $51k
What Nova Principles Foundation does
Mission
Nurturing youth to seek out positive opportunities, internalize good values, and to accept accountability for their choices in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For the year ended December 31, 2025, N.O.V.A. Principles Foundation operated the following programs:NOVA Principles: NOVA is taught to adolescents, male and female, grades 5 through 11. The program is taught by certified NOVA Instructors.NOVA's curriculum is built around five core principlesAccountability, Purpose, Positivity, Discipline,and Respectwhich help youth develop sound decision-making skills and personal responsibility.Free supplemental materials are provided to parents and family members by subscription.Working with local law enforcement, NOVA reviews existing community outreach programs and develops strategies to increase success among adolescents. NOVA continues to identify the need for skill development in principle-based decision-making.
$97,353 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $97,353.
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 2018 to 2019, from $26k to $63k (+147%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% 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
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
Lyman Gifford
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $25k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION’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
NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
83% of NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION: 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 NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION?
- NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,300 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($130,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $162,300 in grants to NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION?
- SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NOVA PRINCIPLES FOUNDATION 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 5 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