Utah · Nonprofit
UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC
UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $243,750 to it, the largest being MARRINER S ECCLES FOUNDATION ($39,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $244k
- Net assets
- $201k
What Utah Arts Festival Foundation Inc does
Mission
To produce the annual utah arts festival, for the purpose of promoting the arts and enhancing the quality of life in utah
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Utah arts festival is the state's largest, outdoor, multi-disciplinary arts event in the state presenting nationally renowned performing, visual, literary and film arts during a four day event each june. The artist marketplace features 160 visual artists from across the country, the performing arts program showcases over 100 musicians and performers on five stages; the literary arts program features workshops and readings; the art yard gives over 6,000 children interactive opportunities to engage in the arts; fear no film features over 50 independent short films from around the world; the urban arts program gives teens and young adults access to the arts community. The utah arts festival commissions new works in music (classical and jazz) and dance annually.
$1,580,046 spent$918,678 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,580,046.
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 2024 to 2025, from $607k to $255k (−58%).
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 17% · 2018 16% · 2019 18% · 2020 62% · 2021 41% · 2022 21% · 2023 25% · 2024 18% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
David Bateman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $9k → $52k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC’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 FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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
43% 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 UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 95% · 2019 48% · 2020 22% · 2021 36% · 2022 45% · 2023 34% — 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
50% of UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
85% of UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION 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. $36k 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.
Against its field
UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$55k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC?
- UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $243,750 to it, the largest being MARRINER S ECCLES FOUNDATION ($39,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $243,750 in grants to UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION INC?
- MARRINER S ECCLES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $39,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UTAH ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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