Utah · Nonprofit
UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL
UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL (Utah) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,212,609 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,787,828). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Utah Humanities Council does
Mission
Utah Humanities collaborates with libraries, museums, historical societies, schools, colleges, and cultural and civic groups; provides capacity-building opportunities for volunteers and professionals in the cultural sector; presents special events including an annual state-wide book festival; and offers modest grants to nonprofit organizations for public humanities projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The mission of Utah Humanities (UH) revolves around offering first-hand, engaging humanities experiences. Our free public events are direct, personal opportunities to identify with literature, understand local and national heritage, and share viewpoints in civil conversations, all of which serve to strengthen the fabric of our personal and community relationships. We offer connection, context, and courage. We work with partners to extend our reach and deepen our work. In fact, everything we do at Utah Humanities is in collaboration with other organizations. Aligning with cultural, educational, professional, and service organizations is essential to fulfilling our mission, and partnering with us can result in measurable community improvement. Our statewide work at UH is divided into thematic Centers, each of which has a specific humanities focus and associated programs. It is through our Centers that we partner with Utah organizations to improve communities through the humanities. The Centers are the Center for the Book, the Center for Community Heritage, the Center for Educational Access, the Center for Local Initiatives, and Special Projects. We celebrated our 50th anniversary in…
$915,421 spentof which $79,938 as grants76% of program spendingSince 1994, Utah Humanities has partnered with the Smithsonian Institution's Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) to bring Museum on Main Street (MoMS) exhibitions to communities throughout Utah. Together with local host partners, we have collaborated on ten exhibition tours through more than 50 communities and reached more than a million people in Utah with this programming. In 2025, UH completed the tour of the MoMS exhibition Crossroads: Change in Rural America and began preparation for the next exhibit, Voices and Votes: Democracy in America. Crossroads traveled to eight communities in Utah: North Summit Unite in partnership with Summit County History Department (Coalville); Wasatch County Library (Heber); Utah State University - Eastern (Price); Silver Reef Museum (Leeds); Brigham City Museum of Art & History (Brigham City); John Wesley Powell River History Museum (Green River); Mt Hurst Foundation in partnership with Utah State University - Blanding (Blanding); Granary Arts in partnership with Snow College Library (Ephraim). Voices and Votes will launch in 2026, as part of the national America250 celebration. It will travel to the Utah Cultural Celebration Center (West…
$96,736 spent8% of program spendingThe Utah Center for the Book fosters a love of reading while encouraging the exploration of contemporary issues through literature. As Utah's affiliate of the National Center for the Book at the Library of Congress, it promotes reading, authorship, and library engagement throughout the state. The Utah Humanities Book Festival celebrated its 28th anniversary in 2025. As Utah Humanities' flagship literary program and the state's only statewide literary festival, it brings writers, readers, and communities together each October during National Book Month to celebrate literature and the power of ideas. For nearly three decades, we have partnered with organizations across Utah to present this dynamic festival. In 2025, the Festival featured 121 events across seven regional hubs, engaging 148 literary artists and scholars and reaching more than 11,000 participants statewide through partnerships with 38 community organizations. The lineup included New York Times bestselling authors, Stoker Award winners, Reese's Book Club selections, Whitney Award recipients, and Utah Book Award honorees. New this year was the inaugural Utah Horror Day at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, further…
$91,831 spent8% of program spendingThe Center for Educational Access expands opportunities for individuals seeking new pathways to learning, confidence, and personal growth through the humanities. Through discussion-based courses offered in partnership with universities and high schools, participants engage with literature, philosophy, and history in supportive learning environments. These programs foster critical thinking, communication skills, self-reflection, and a renewed sense of possibility. Serving learners from a wide range of backgrounds and life experiences, the programs encourage participants to build skills, pursue further educational goals, and connect their own experiences to broader human stories. In 2025, we offered the Clemente Course in the Humanities in Salt Lake City and Ogden and the Venture Course in the Humanities in Ogden and as part of the Prison Education Program in Salt Lake City.
$104,620 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,208,608.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $2.4M to $3.0M (+23%).
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: 2020 85% · 2021 75% · 2022 85% · 2023 77% · 2024 75% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Jodi Graham
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income fell $306k → $271k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 HUMANITIES COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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 HUMANITIES COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 HUMANITIES COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 96% · 2019 87% · 2020 74% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 90% — 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
33% of UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
81% of UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL'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 $410k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Utah, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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 HUMANITIES COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.7M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$8.6M
- National Endowment for the Arts$62k
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 HUMANITIES COUNCIL
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL: 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 HUMANITIES COUNCIL?
- UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL (Utah) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,212,609 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,787,828). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,212,609 in grants to UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,787,828 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL 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 2020–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing