Utah · Nonprofit
RUP INC
RUP INC (Utah) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,665,000 to it, the largest being WESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION ($1,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $167k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $0
What Rup Inc does
Mission
The Rural Utah Project works for political change in order to protect public lands in Utah for the benefit of all people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Issue Advocacy - RUP continued to engage in organizing work in numerous communities in nine counties in rural southern Utah. Through this program, RUP organizers held thousands of non-partisan, issue-based conversations with voter
$111,973 spent80% of program spendingOther work - Additionally, RUP conducted other organizing work across the places we organize - this included some elections-based work, such as meeting with and supporting candidates for public office, and made contributions to so
$27,902 spent20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $139,875.
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.
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 $1.5M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Tj Ellerbeck
Executive director
Board chair
Kerry Schumann
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $440k → $407k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $500k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance). These are real filings, and they are not money RUP INC raised.
From the IRS filings of RUP 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
RUP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 RUP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 57% · 2021 75% · 2022 61% · 2023 61% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of RUP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
RUP INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 RUP INC
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RUP 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RUP INC?
- RUP INC (Utah) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,665,000 to it, the largest being WESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION ($1,000,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RUP INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,665,000 in grants to RUP INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RUP INC?
- WESTERN CONSERVATION ACTION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RUP 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.
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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 2018–2024), and the filings of 8 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