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Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Utah) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,451,682 to it, the largest being THE SAM AND DIANE STEWART FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,067,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Emma Eccles Jones Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundationshared funders
- Art Alliance for Contemporary Glassportfolio match
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.
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 22% · 2018 23% · 2019 18% · 2020 27% · 2022 25% · 2023 28% · 2024 39% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of Utah Museum of Contemporary Art’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $85k → $450k.
10 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Museum of Contemporary Art’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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 Museum of Contemporary Art leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 39% · 2019 63% · 2020 49% · 2021 78% · 2022 17% · 2023 56% — 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
63% of Utah Museum of Contemporary Art's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
82% of Utah Museum of Contemporary Art's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $373k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 40 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Emma Eccles Jones Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchUT · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- C Scott & Dorothy E Watkins Charitable Foundationshared fundersUT · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- Art Alliance for Contemporary Glassportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beverley Taylor Sorenson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Saul Steinberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Terra Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert Lehman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McCarthey Family Foundationshared funderslocalUT · backs 83 organizations that share your funders · funds 92 organizations near you
- Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Mainshared funderslocalMO · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 38 organizations near you
- Intermountain Community Care Foundation Incshared funderslocalUT · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 74 organizations near you
- Utah's Promiseshared funderslocalUT · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 91 organizations near you
- David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundationshared funderslocalUT · backs 66 organizations that share your funders · funds 80 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Utah Museum of Contemporary Art receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $305k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$210k
- National Endowment for the Arts$95k
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 Museum of Contemporary Art
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 Museum of Contemporary Art: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Utah Museum of Contemporary Art?
- Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Utah) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,451,682 to it, the largest being THE SAM AND DIANE STEWART FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,067,500). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Utah Museum of Contemporary Art have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,451,682 in grants to Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Utah Museum of Contemporary Art?
- THE SAM AND DIANE STEWART FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,067,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Utah Museum of Contemporary Art 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 40funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing