Utah · Nonprofit
Utah Arts Academy
Utah Arts Academy (Utah) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being THE MINER FOUNDATION ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Utah Arts Academy does
Mission
Utah Arts Academy is a premier academic and arts-focused school. By combining rigorous academic programming with pre-professional training in a wide array of arts (theatre, dance, music, visual and media arts), we inspire our students' creativity and thought, while providing an essential and dynamic educational foundation that appeals to any university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operate a public charter school for students from grades eight through twelve.
$3,030,700 spent$179,968 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,030,700.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $3.5M to $5.7M (+60%).
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: 2022 87% · 2023 77% · 2024 93% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Utah Arts Academy’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Nelson Hafen
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of Utah Arts Academy’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
Utah Arts Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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: 2022 67% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
80% of Utah Arts Academy'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
Utah Arts Academy receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Utah Arts Academy
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Utah Arts Academy Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Utah Arts Academy: 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 Utah Arts Academy?
- Utah Arts Academy (Utah) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being THE MINER FOUNDATION ($35,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Utah Arts Academy have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $50,000 in grants to Utah Arts Academy, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Utah Arts Academy?
- THE MINER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Utah Arts Academy 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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