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The Leonardo

The Leonardo (Utah) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $977,570 to it, the largest being Dinesh and Kalpana Patel Foundation ($162,620). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$3.7M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$978k
Net assets
$-2398920
8/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What The Leonardo does

Mission

The Leonardos mission is to fuse science, technology and art in experiences that inspire innovation and creativity in people of all ages and backgrounds. We do this through engaging and interactive exhibits, school

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Museum and Visitor Services - The Leonardo is open Tuesdays through Sundays to the public, and provides daily engaging exhibits, floor programs with hands-on learning opportunities and creative innovative programs for all ages. Serving over 100,000 individuals through exhibits, events, outreach and programs. The Leonardo also hosted some traveling exhibits during this year, and opened a major new gallery, the 9,000sf IDEA Space that hosts immersive exhibitions and events. This was augmented by a redesigned Art Studio that serves students, families and groups with hands-on arts exploration.

    $1,436,672 spent
    46% of program spending
  2. Community Events - The Leonardo works with corporate partners and community leaders to infuse their individual events with hands-on creative and innovative activities. The educational backdrop of the museum provides a unique venue to augment traditional corporate parties and retreats with fun and educational team-building exercises. The Leonardo also provides the community with unique events that cater to life-long learning. Specific programs include the science and art of food as the focus of our dining programs, building new skills through our Create What You Crave programs, and fun and educational activities for celebrations ranging from birthdays to anniversaries.

    $956,122 spent
    30% of program spending
  3. Community Programming - Through field trips, hands-on workshops, educator evenings, and our science outreach program, The Leonardo directly impacted 33,208 K-12 students and teachers. Monthly community programs engage audiences with film screenings, panel discussions, lectures, demonstrations and more. Additionally, we partner with area organizations and schools to bring hands- on content to events and festivals throughout the year. Examples include STEM Fest, Arts Festival, Expanding Your Horizons, SheTech and many more. Over 50,000 individuals interact with The Leonardo at these off-site outreach events.

    $60,181 spent
    2% of program spending
  4. Other programming expenses

    $690,709 spent
    22% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,143,684.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M)2021 Revenue 62 ($2.3M) Expenses 85 ($2.8M)2022 Revenue 115 ($4.4M) Expenses 130 ($4.2M)2023 Revenue 125 ($4.8M) Expenses 144 ($4.7M)2024 Revenue 96 ($3.7M) Expenses 122 ($4.0M)
20192021202220232024
Revenue (96)Expenses (122)Peer revenue range

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 $1.4M to $1.7M (+25%).

$1.6M
$1.4M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.3M
20192021202220232024
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.

2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 14% · 2021 75% · 2022 57% · 2023 55% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

60% of The Leonardo’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$558k
’19
−$428k
’21
$173k
’22
$92k
’23
−$320k
’24
0.0
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 Hesse

Executive Director

Board chair

Lisa Davis

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20192021202220232024
Listed99101010
Joined··+5+0+0
No longer listed··400
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $50k → $233k.

4 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 The Leonardo’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

The Leonardo has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

33% 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 The Leonardo.

17%
largest funder
42%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 22% · 2019 51% · 2020 83% · 2021 28% · 2022 100% · 2023 43% — 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

7% of The Leonardo's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

83% of The Leonardo's grant income comes from Utah funders.

MT
MI
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
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. $217k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Leonardo's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−9% · below the median
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 12%Fundraising 9%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 The Leonardo?
The Leonardo (Utah) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $977,570 to it, the largest being Dinesh and Kalpana Patel Foundation ($162,620). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Leonardo have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $977,570 in grants to The Leonardo, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Leonardo?
Dinesh and Kalpana Patel Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $162,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Leonardo 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 28 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