Utah · Nonprofit
UTAH DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION
UTAH DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,670 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($80,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $148k
- Net assets
- $212k
What Utah Down Syndrome Foundation does
Mission
Utah Down Syndrome Foundation provides hope to individuals with down syndrome, their families, and communities through support, education, activities, outreach and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
During 2024, the Utah Down Syndrome Foundation accomplished its mission of providing hope to individuals with down syndrome, their families, and the community through support, education, activities, outreach, and advocacy. Support: udsf provided support to 51 new and expectant parents who received a down syndrome diagnosis for their child in 2024 by delivering care packages to them and providing them with a new parent mentor. Udsf also offered support and education to these families and more through its quarterly new parent breakfasts. 394 family members attended these breakfasts in 2024. Education: udsf provided essential education specific to down syndrome to over 13,000 visitors to their website, udsf.org. Udsf provided a monthly newsletter, the lowdown, to over 1800 of its members. This newsletter provided educational resources and outreach opportunities. During the 2023 -2024 school year, udsf's peer presentation tool kits helped educate 250 elementary students about down syndrome. Udsf held three financial workshops and educated 200 parents on how to plan for their child's future. Udsf also held 3 down to learn workshops in 2024, providing more educational and reading…
$73,013 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $73,013.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $118k to $162k (+38%).
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 6% · 2018 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Kimberly Wedlick
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $22k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 DOWN SYNDROME 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 DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 52% · 2019 100% · 2020 42% · 2021 55% · 2022 80% · 2023 89% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of UTAH DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
83% of UTAH DOWN SYNDROME 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. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like UTAH DOWN SYNDROME 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.
Public support
89%
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 DOWN SYNDROME 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 DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION?
- UTAH DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION (Utah) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,670 to it, the largest being SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION ($80,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UTAH DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $147,670 in grants to UTAH DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UTAH DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION?
- SORENSON LEGACY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UTAH DOWN SYNDROME 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.
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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 14 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