Utah · Nonprofit
SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC
SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC (Utah) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,488 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($47,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $479k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $103k
- Net assets
- $105k
What Salt Contemporary Dance Inc does
Mission
Expand the awareness, reach and capacity of salt unique performances and festivals. Continuously seek and create emerging and cutting-edge performances to stay at the most forefront of the dance industry. Educate dancers and community members on relevant, emerging contemporary performance through training programs, events, and outreach. In its first five years, salt has increased revenue and net income. Donors have more than doubled, and the current fundraising ratio is at a healthy 1%. The company is financially secure and the future looks promising. Salt held their first masquerade social event, vip night for donors, and link dance festival. Concert attendance was sustained. Salt had a turnover in dancers, with only four dancers staying, one previous salt dancer returning, one guest artists/choreographer dancing on the company, two apprentices moving up and joining the company. The company will have three apprentices this year, one from salt ii, one local, and one from out of state.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Increase visibility & partnerships - expand the awareness, reach and capacity of salt's unique performances. Short term: 1. By 2025-2026, salt will be presented by utahpresents and begin the process of being chosen by other presenters through affiliation with the western arts alliance. 2. Salt will launch "salt dance" magazine to be a resource for dancers of all ages along the wasatch front. 3. Salt will increase partnerships to expand the link dance festival to serve 200 dancers (double the number of last year). Long term: 1. By 2026, salt will be presenting concerts to an audience of 23,220 including: fall (4,010), spring (4,010) and community (15,200) concerts. 2. By 2026, salt will be a national (10 days) and international (15 days) touring company.
$81,553 spent$128,070 earned by the program23% of program spendingRelevancy & growth - continuously seek and create emerging, cuttingedge choreography to remain innovative in the dance industry. Short term: 1. By 2025-2026, salt will be able to pay dancers a wage of 350/week. To meet these goals, salt will continue in the endeavor of increasing the operating budget through ticket/event sales, sponsors, donors, and grants. Long term: 1. By 2026, salt will fundraise and begin processes to build on a new home with space for office space, studios, performance venues and rentable space. 2. By 2026, salt will be able to pay dancers a livable wage (1,400/week) plus benefits, thus attracting and keeping the finest dancers.
$138,286 spent$129,352 earned by the program39% of program spendingEducation - educate dancers and community members on relevant, emerging contemporary dance through workshops, festivals, and a multi-tier training program for aspiring dancers. Short term: 1. By 2024-2025, salt will have a four-tier training program reaching 50 aspiring dancers ages: 14-18 (salt senior), 18-25 (salt apprentices), 18+ (salt ii & salt pro) and a part-time education team (one education director, two company directors, one assistant) who facilitate and oversee all educational outreach and educational programming. 2. Salt will begin creating videos of workshops, live training sessions, and interactive mentoring. The efforts towards this becoming a reality are already underway through a mini video-training series distributed via social media. Long term: 1. By 2026, salt will have a four-tier training program reaching 100 aspiring dancers ages: 14-18 (salt senior), 18-25 (salt apprentices), 18+ (salt ii & salt pro) and a full-time education team (one program director, four company directors, two assistants) who facilitate and oversee all educational outreach and educational programming. 2. By 2026, salt will have an online portal for the global world of dancers to 1)…
$134,741 spent$128,890 earned by the program38% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $354,580.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $32k to $123k (+289%).
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: 2018 13% · 2019 5% · 2020 8% · 2021 21% · 2022 33% · 2023 10% · 2024 9% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 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.
Board chair
Michelle Nielsen
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $35k.
2 of 6 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 SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE 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
SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 89%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 71% — 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 SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE 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. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE 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.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC?
- SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC (Utah) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,488 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($47,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $103,488 in grants to SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE INC?
- SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $47,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SALT CONTEMPORARY DANCE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 6 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