Utah · Nonprofit
UTAH PET PARTNERS
UTAH PET PARTNERS (Utah) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,354 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN V AND LISA D YOUNG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($52,750). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $118k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $205k
- Net assets
- $118k
What Utah Pet Partners does
Mission
The mission of Utah Pet Partners is improving human health and well being in partnership with therapy animals. We do this through recruitment, training, testing, mentoring, support and supervision of qualified volunteer human-animal teams. We do facility site assessment and professional training and volunteer service in a variety of settings as well community education re benefits of animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
UPP recruits, trains, tests, mentors and supports qualified volunteer Pet Partner registered animal/handler teams to provide animal assisted interventions to clients of all ages and income levels throughout Utah. Our dedicated staff assess and prepare facility sites for our teams, educating healthcare, social service, library and education professionals to effectively partner with the volunteer teams to enhance their client's therapeutic experience. Our specially trained teams provide over 5 thousand hours of volunteer service a year(an equivalent of over $120,700 of donated time)in hospitals and healthcare settings, mental health settings, shelters, schools, libraries, universities, and courts. In addition, UPP provides public education concerning the benefits of the human-animal bond in specific presentations, engages in research and special partnerships with educational instititions and human health professionals to explore the potential of animal-assisted therapy, and participates in workplace wellness events for a variety of high-stress businesses.
$67,077 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $67,077.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $73k to $112k (+54%).
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: 2018 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of UTAH PET PARTNERS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Melany Hillstead
Executive Director
Board chair
Laura Cabanilla
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $13k → $24k.
1 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 PET PARTNERS’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 PET PARTNERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 32% · 2019 26% · 2020 16% · 2021 44% · 2022 37% · 2023 21% — 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
31% of UTAH PET PARTNERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
60% of UTAH PET PARTNERS's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 PET PARTNERS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UTAH PET PARTNERS
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PET PARTNERS: 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 PET PARTNERS?
- UTAH PET PARTNERS (Utah) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,354 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN V AND LISA D YOUNG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($52,750). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UTAH PET PARTNERS have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $205,354 in grants to UTAH PET PARTNERS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UTAH PET PARTNERS?
- CHRISTIAN V AND LISA D YOUNG FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $52,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UTAH PET PARTNERS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 23 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