Utah · Nonprofit
OGDEN FIRST INC
OGDEN FIRST INC (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,800 to it, the largest being DR EZEKIEL R & EDNA WATTIS DUMKE FOUNDATION ($325,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OGDEN FIRST INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Msl Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- United Way of Northern Utahlocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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: 2019 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of OGDEN FIRST INC’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 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $300 → $81k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 OGDEN FIRST INC’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
OGDEN FIRST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 93% — 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 OGDEN FIRST INC's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
- The Alan and Jeanne Hall Foundationlocalportfolio matchUT · funds 27 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Msl Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchUT · funds 14 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Northern UtahlocalUT · funds 28 organizations near you
- Salt Lake Arts Council Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Utah Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beverley Taylor Sorenson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Allied Arts of Oklahoma Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western States Arts Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Performance Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundationportfolio 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.
Government funding OGDEN FIRST INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$45k
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 OGDEN FIRST INC
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
80% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OGDEN FIRST INC: 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 OGDEN FIRST INC?
- OGDEN FIRST INC (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,800 to it, the largest being DR EZEKIEL R & EDNA WATTIS DUMKE FOUNDATION ($325,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OGDEN FIRST INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $342,800 in grants to OGDEN FIRST INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OGDEN FIRST INC?
- DR EZEKIEL R & EDNA WATTIS DUMKE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OGDEN FIRST INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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