Utah · Nonprofit
THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY
THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY (Utah) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,863,724 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($6,684,331). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What The Salt Lake Film Society does
Mission
SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY'S MISSION IS to exhibit, create, and preserve cinema and the big screen cinematic experience.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, slfs operated 365 days full schedule with over 250 film titles in 9,000+ screening opportunities, including 70 special one-night event presentations in cinematic excellence. Screeningsinclude first-run, repertory, archival, and new 4k release or anniversary editions of film. Slfs grew the membership program and continued robust projects like our cultural tours/film festivals (czech, mexican, pacific-islander), and also launched the tower theater: next 100 years project with donations to assist in purchasing the building and launch into schemic design. Slfs media accelerator studio (mast) and six of its animation fellows produced the powerful ninety-five senses which was nominated for the academy award for best animated short film at the 96th academy awards in march 2024.
$2,166,701 spent$1,417,937 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,166,701.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.6M to $8.6M (+237%).
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 11% · 2018 11% · 2019 13% · 2020 43% · 2021 69% · 2022 15% · 2023 17% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Tori Ann Baker
CEO
Board chair
Sarah Sinwell
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $49k → $2.8M.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY’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 SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% 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 SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 94% · 2019 58% · 2020 77% · 2021 49% · 2022 45% · 2023 77% — 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
47% of THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
64% of THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.2M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Utah, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY
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
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY: 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 SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY?
- THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY (Utah) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,863,724 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($6,684,331). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $11,863,724 in grants to THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $6,684,331 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SALT LAKE FILM SOCIETY 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 26 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