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The Community Foundation of Utah

The Community Foundation of Utah (Utah) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,779,278 to it, the largest being KENNETH C SAVAGE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,456,589). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year. The Community Foundation of Utah administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2024
$67M
Funders on record
90
Grants received
$47M
Net assets
$148M
42/90 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

The Community Foundation of Utah administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programThe Community Foundation of Utah runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$172M

Recipients

643

Contributions on record

$128M

Donors on record

91

Payments out are 1.34x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.

01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($26M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($52M)2018 Revenue 67 ($17M) Expenses 85 ($11M) Net assets 104 ($55M)2019 Revenue 51 ($13M) Expenses 55 ($7.4M) Net assets 125 ($65M)2020 Revenue 163 ($43M) Expenses 149 ($20M) Net assets 172 ($90M)2021 Revenue 261 ($68M) Expenses 109 ($15M) Net assets 270 ($141M)2022 Revenue 155 ($40M) Expenses 234 ($31M) Net assets 258 ($135M)2023 Revenue 120 ($31M) Expenses 221 ($30M) Net assets 279 ($146M)2024 Revenue 256 ($67M) Expenses 495 ($67M) Net assets 284 ($148M)
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Revenue (256)Expenses (495)Net assets (284)

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 $91M to $142M (+57%).

$53M
$55M
$66M
$91M
$142M
$137M
$189M
$190M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$13M
’17
$5.9M
’18
$6.0M
’19
$22M
’20
$53M
’21
$8.9M
’22
$1.3M
’23
$146k
’24
0.4
months of
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

Alexandra Eaton

Chief Executive Officer

Board chair

Trish Coughlin

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+0+2+2+2+4+0+1
No longer listed·4221121
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 20 funders, grant income fell $10M → $5.5M.

16 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $82M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Trust of Utah). These are real filings, and they are not money The Community Foundation of Utah raised.

From the IRS filings of The Community Foundation of Utah’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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.

Where its funders are

96% of The Community Foundation of Utah's grant income comes from Utah funders.

WA
NY
WY
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Utah out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.

03Its place in the field
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

UT

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Candide Charitable Enterprise LLC · disregarded
  • Community Trust of Utah · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Community Foundation of 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 The Community Foundation of Utah?
The Community Foundation of Utah (Utah) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,779,278 to it, the largest being KENNETH C SAVAGE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,456,589). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year. The Community Foundation of Utah administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does The Community Foundation of Utah have?
IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $46,779,278 in grants to The Community Foundation of Utah, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Community Foundation of Utah?
KENNETH C SAVAGE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,456,589 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Community Foundation of 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.

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 90 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