Utah · Nonprofit
UTAH SPORTS COMMISSION
UTAH SPORTS COMMISSION (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $604,760 to it, the largest being THE JULIE M AND DAVID S LAYTON FOUNDAT ($260,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $605k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Utah Sports Commission does
Mission
The Utah Sports Commission is governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, and community leaders, and was created to foster national and international sports competitions to be held in the state of utah.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sports promotion and marketing - the sports competitions and events that the Utah Sports Commission partners with serve as valuable economic impact and image-building drivers, especially those that provide national and international television exposure. During the 24-25 fiscal year, the organization hosted or partnered on numerous events that resulted in substantial media value and national and international exposure. Some of the most notable examples are ufc 307, red bull rampage, and monster energy supercross.
Sports awards and sponsorships - the sports awards and sponsorship program is designed to attract, retain, and grow national and international sports competitions that take place within the state of utah. Sponsorship is provided to events that generate significant economic impact, media exposure, and/or are of strategic importance in positioning the state favorably in a particular sports discipline, category, or genre. Between the Utah Sports Commission foundation and the Utah Sports Commission, the organizations hosted or partnered on over 70 events that collectively generated hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact during the 24-25 fiscal year.
Utah olympic legacy and related efforts - the Utah Sports Commission continues to build on utah's olympic legacy and is playing an integral role in the preparation for the 2034 winter olympic and paralympic games. By sitting on both the games' steering committee and chairing the state of sport subcommittee, the organization assists in identifying, recruiting, and/or providing support to key olympic-related events as the state and its national governing bodies (ngbs) prepare for another olympic games and beyond.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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 $14M to $19M (+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: 2024 0% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of UTAH SPORTS COMMISSION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Jeff Robbins
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $13k.
From the IRS filings of UTAH SPORTS COMMISSION’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 SPORTS COMMISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 80% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of UTAH SPORTS COMMISSION's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 SPORTS COMMISSION is better cushioned than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UTAH SPORTS COMMISSION
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.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Utah Sports Commission Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UTAH SPORTS COMMISSION: 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 SPORTS COMMISSION?
- UTAH SPORTS COMMISSION (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $604,760 to it, the largest being THE JULIE M AND DAVID S LAYTON FOUNDAT ($260,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UTAH SPORTS COMMISSION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $604,760 in grants to UTAH SPORTS COMMISSION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UTAH SPORTS COMMISSION?
- THE JULIE M AND DAVID S LAYTON FOUNDAT is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UTAH SPORTS COMMISSION 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 4 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