Utah · Nonprofit
UTAH BAR FOUNDATION
UTAH BAR FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,493 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($265,493). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $313k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Utah Bar Foundation does
Mission
1) promote legal education and increase the knowledge and awareness of the law in the community. 2) assist in providing legal services to the disadvantaged. 3) improve the administration of justice. 4) serve other worthwhile law-related public purposes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Utah Bar Foundation provided funding for civil legal aid for lower income utahns, funding for law-related education and funding for improvements to the administration of justice. We did this through making grants from collected iolta income, growth on cash reserves and other funding donations received by the foundation. The foundation paid out 30 grants totaling 3,717,409 to other organization in furtherance of its mission.
$3,892,923 spentof which $3,717,409 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,892,923.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.5M to $11M (+71%).
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: 2021 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of UTAH BAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $157k → $103k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 BAR 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
UTAH BAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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: 2021 84% · 2022 78% — 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.
Where its funders are
UTAH BAR FOUNDATION draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 BAR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UTAH BAR 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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 UTAH BAR 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 UTAH BAR FOUNDATION?
- UTAH BAR FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,493 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($265,493). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UTAH BAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $313,493 in grants to UTAH BAR FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UTAH BAR FOUNDATION?
- The Pew Charitable Trusts is the largest funder on record, with $265,493 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UTAH BAR 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 2017–2025), 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