Utah · Nonprofit
UTAH FILM CENTER
UTAH FILM CENTER (Utah) receives grants from 269 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,012,462 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,035,413). 103 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 269
- Grants received
- $53M
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Utah Film Center does
Mission
Utah Film Center inspires and engages diverse audiences to initiate conversation and community building through curated film exhibition, educational programs, and artist support.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The fiscal sponsorship program acts as a fiscal sponsor for select film projects that are consistent with its mission, that emphasize social content and artistic excellence, including documentary, independent and dramatic films. The program provides administrative support, fundraising support and guidance to individuals and organizations so they can focus on film making. Through the fiscal sponsorship program the center can ensure funding agencies and contributors that funds are well-managed and spent according to their guidelines.
$21,699,940 spentof which $21,576,326 as grants96% of program spendingWe provide a wide array of educational experiences for both educators and students. Educators learn basic and advanced skills, which allow them to introduce media arts into their classroom, regardless of subject. Through an in-house, prepared curriculum, we conduct presentations throughout the state, introducing students to the world of media arts and animation.
$338,327 spent1% of program spendingThe core programming program includes regular screenings of the best independent and international films, and encourages dialogue about current social, cultural and economic issues. Efforts are made to partner with and reach out to interested non-profit, business, and community organizations to help build audiences for each screening.
$213,942 spent$73,993 earned by the program1% of program spendingFestivals
$342,763 spent2% of program spendingArtist foundry
$95,749 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,690,721.
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 $2.8M to $8.2M (+195%).
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 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 5% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of UTAH FILM CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Mariah Mellus
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 92 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $8.1M.
56 of 269 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $892k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Utah Film Support Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UTAH FILM CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of UTAH FILM CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 269 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 FILM CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
56% 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 FILM CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 32% · 2019 26% · 2020 25% · 2021 13% · 2022 16% · 2023 11% — 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
32% of UTAH FILM CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
51% of UTAH FILM CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $26M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Utah, across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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 FILM CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding UTAH FILM CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 FILM CENTER
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Utah Film Support Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UTAH FILM CENTER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER?
- UTAH FILM CENTER (Utah) receives grants from 269 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,012,462 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,035,413). 103 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UTAH FILM CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 269 organizations giving $53,012,462 in grants to UTAH FILM CENTER, 103 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UTAH FILM CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,035,413 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UTAH FILM CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 269 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