Utah · Nonprofit
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC (Utah) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,389,601 to it, the largest being THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION ($1,880,132). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $8.4M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What The Salt Lake Tribune Inc does
Mission
The tribune is utah's independent voice. Building on a legacy of courageous, watchdog journalism, we strive to tell stories that are interesting, important and inclusive. Dedicated to fairness and accuracy, we aim to engage and empower you - our readers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The tribune will continue to offer unmatched reporting on state and local government, the environment, religion, sports, culture and growth. It will elevate solutions-oriented reporting and it will focus its journalism on the people and places that make utah special. As a nonprofit, the tribune's editorial board - which operates independent of its newsroom - does not endorse candidates running for political office. The tribune works with pro bono legal services to seek access to government records on behalf of the public. We are continuing to expand our geographical reach, through the moab times-independent, the southern utah tribune and the utah news collaborative.
$7,489,027 spent$8,029,020 earned by the program99% of program spendingGreat salt lake collaborative: the salt lake tribune serves as the fiscal sponsor for this initiative the great salt lake collaborative is a group of 19 news, education and civic organizations that came together four years ago to better inform and engage the public about the crisis facing the lake. The collaborative practices rigorous journalism, innovative storytelling and community outreach, focusing on how agencies and people are responding to the challenges facing the lake.
$48,035 spent$23,377 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,537,062.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.0M to $3.9M (+100%).
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.
31% of THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Lauren Gustus
CEO & exec e
Board chair
Tom Love
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $261k → $1.3M.
12 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 TRIBUNE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
66% 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 TRIBUNE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 96% · 2020 88% · 2021 27% · 2022 13% · 2023 32% — 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
42% of THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
67% of THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 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. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 TRIBUNE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 TRIBUNE 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 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC?
- THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC (Utah) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,389,601 to it, the largest being THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION ($1,880,132). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $8,389,601 in grants to THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC?
- THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,880,132 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 72 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