Utah · Nonprofit
PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH
PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH (Utah) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,483 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($46,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $198k
- Net assets
- $304k
What Project Connection Utah does
Mission
Provide mental health therapy and counseling services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Outpatient clinic services - providing mental health therapy and counseling services to insured, uninsured and underinsured clients. Since its inception in 2019, the clinic has served in excess of 2900 clients. Project connection is also a contracted provider with utah medicaid, salt lake county medicaid, and tooele county medicaid.
$781,556 spent$1,149,311 earned by the program41% of program spendingSchool based therapy services - partnering with the canyons & murray school districts in salt lake county to provide mental health services in over 20 elementary, middle, and high schools. Project connection also provided services for a charter school in west valley, ut, juan diego catholic high school in draper, ut, and rowland hall in salt lake city, ut.
$630,532 spent$1,206,787 earned by the program33% of program spendingYouth club (respite) - 2024 brought continued growth in project connection's youth club program (respite). This program supports families with children receiving sl county medicaid services. The respite program provides time to families/parents allowing them opportunity for productive or relief time while others take charge of their children on a weekly or semiweekly basis. Project connection's youth club leaders involve their clients in community events, activities that are educational and fun, and help develop social skills and experiences as well as ensure they are properly fed while out in the community.
$283,173 spent$420,777 earned by the program15% of program spendingSocial prescribing (critical time intervention) in calendar year 2024, project connection continued its partnership with salt lake county medicaid in development of a program addressing inpatient recidivism by providing timely therapy and support services upon a client's hospital discharge to prevent the need to re-admit. In addition to the service provided, project connection introduced social prescribing services as well. Social prescribing is a way of addressing a person's mental health through making social connections with others in ways that are tailored to the individual's needs and interests. This program served in excess of 150 clients in 2024.
$192,558 spent$189,379 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,887,819.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $265k to $2.2M (+714%).
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 2% · 2021 1% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Lennie Knowlton
Executive director
Board chair
Elena Leppard
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $30 → $21k.
1 of 9 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 PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH’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
PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
27% 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 PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 42% · 2022 56% · 2023 57% — 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
50% of PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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 PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $483 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.
Organizations like PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH: 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 PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH?
- PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH (Utah) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,483 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($46,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $198,483 in grants to PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH?
- SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $46,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT CONNECTION UTAH 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 9 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