Utah · Nonprofit
Utah Children
Utah Children (Utah) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,436,303 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($1,458,333). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 49
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Utah Children does
Mission
To advocate for the rights of children in the state of utah by promoting the development of healthy children and sound families through research, publications, media relations, community, outreach, training sessions, and conferences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Early care and education: provide to all children the services and support necessary to enable them to start school and to prepare them for success. The organization researchs best practices and develops recommendations to help state policymakers think strategically about policy decisions to increase accessibility, affordability, and quality of childcare and early education.
$345,329 spent36% of program spendingChildren's health: improve and strengthen public and private programs to ensure that all children have access to and receive quality healthcare.
$164,074 spent17% of program spendingImmigrant and refugee policy: support immigrant communities by uplifting the issues that are most affecting them.
$131,760 spent14% of program spendingResearch: provide accurate, objective information to inform public debate and strengthen public action on behalf of children and families. Tax and budget issues: conduct policy analysis of budget and tax policies, with a particular focus on the needs of low- and moderate-income families. The organization works to broaden the debate on budget and tax policy through public education and the encouragement of civic engagement on these issues. Advocacy: legally engage in lobbying efforts to influence specific legislation. Utah Children has filed a 501(h) election with the internal revenue service that allows the organization to engage in direct lobbying communications to elected officials and grassroots lobbying communications that encourage the public to contact elected officials. Emergency fund
$323,241 spent$24,888 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $964,404.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $1.5M (+32%).
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 8% · 2020 8% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Utah Children’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Maurice F Hickey
Executive Director
Board chair
Kim McGuire
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $505k → $936k.
10 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Children’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
Utah Children has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
39% 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 Children.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 53% · 2019 33% · 2020 28% · 2021 26% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% — 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
48% of Utah Children's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
Utah Children draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $425k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Children runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Utah Children
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
Public support
95%
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 Children: 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 Children?
- Utah Children (Utah) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,436,303 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($1,458,333). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Utah Children have?
- IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $6,436,303 in grants to Utah Children, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Utah Children?
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,458,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Utah Children 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 49 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