Utah · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC
SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC (Utah) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,041,328 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($2,688,839). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Special Olympics Utah Inc does
Mission
The mission of special olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes and the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Unified sports unified sports is an inclusive program that brings people with and without intellectual disabilities together as teammates. This past year, we have seen significant growth in unified sports in high schools, where participation rose to over 80,000 students actively involved in one or more of the unified champion schools (ucs) strategies of 1) participation in unified sports, 2) opportunity to participate in inclusive student leadership, and 3) involvement in whole-school engagement activities. We saw significant growth in ucs basketball and soccer teams, with over 200 high school teams in each of the sports.
$537,564 spentof which $1,434 as grants38% of program spendingSeason sports the organization coordinates statewide training and competitions year-round for over 3,000 special olympics athletes and unified sports partners in the sports of alpine and cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, basketball, dance, track and field, swimming, soccer, bowling, cycling, softball, golf, bocce, cheerleading, and flag football.
$133,843 spent10% of program spendingHealth & fitness health & fitness programs include healthy athletes, which educates athletes about healthy lifestyle choices, and health screenings are offered in communities throughout utah.
$238,227 spent17% of program spendingCompetitions & other programs the organization sponsors athletes to compete in the special olympics usa games and special olympics world games. These events celebrate the dedication and perseverance of special olympics athletes and promote a more inclusive world.
$487,007 spent35% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,396,641.
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 2020 to 2021, from $779k to $1.3M (+66%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 8% · 2019 10% · 2020 33% · 2021 32% · 2022 23% · 2023 23% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $159k → $808k.
5 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 funders by total. 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 86% · 2019 69% · 2020 70% · 2021 70% · 2022 63% · 2023 64% — 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
48% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $152k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC (Utah) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,041,328 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($2,688,839). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $4,041,328 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,688,839 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS UTAH 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 58 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing