Utah · Nonprofit
THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION
THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,333,300 to it, the largest being THE HUNTSMAN FOUNDATION ($3,333,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $774k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What The Utah Journalism Foundation does
Mission
To ensure that the people of Utah continue to be informed, engaged, and empowered by local, indepedent watchdog journalism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Utah Journalism Foundation indentifies and provides grants to nonprofit organizations and projects which strengthen the capacity of indepedent local news organizations to reach broad, diverse audiences.
$2,035,265 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,035,265.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.2M to $4.5M (+109%).
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.
0% of THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1.0M → $3.3M.
From the IRS filings of THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION’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 UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION: 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 UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION?
- THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,333,300 to it, the largest being THE HUNTSMAN FOUNDATION ($3,333,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,333,300 in grants to THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION?
- THE HUNTSMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,333,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE UTAH JOURNALISM FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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