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UTAH STEM FOUNDATION INC

UTAH STEM FOUNDATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $836,668 to it, the largest being BIOINDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN ECOSYSTEM INC ($227,396). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$770k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$837k
Net assets
$680k
8/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Utah STEM Foundation Inc does

Mission

The utah stem foundation is a part of the utah department of heritage and arts (dha), which is now referred to as the department of cultural and community engagement (cce). The foundation's main priority is to help enhance the efforts of the stem action center, whose mission is to produce a stem competitive workforce to ensure utah's continued economic success in the global marketplace. The utah stem foundation will accomplish this by collaborating with community partners to create engagement and industry alignment and deliberately allocate valuable funds.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The utah stem foundation helps to support stem fest, stem in motion, stem on stage magic show, stem best practices, green our planet hydroponics programs, stem spots, stem innovation hub, first and vex robotics, micro stem fest kits, mystem, tinker totes, as well as many other stem initiatives that have statewide impact.

    $1,194,398 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,194,398.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($852k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 42 ($513k) Expenses 67 ($572k) Net assets 96 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 26 ($324k) Expenses 58 ($492k) Net assets 86 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 49 ($603k) Expenses 61 ($517k) Net assets 91 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 48 ($586k) Expenses 81 ($689k) Net assets 85 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 61 ($752k) Expenses 122 ($1.0M) Net assets 67 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 63 ($770k) Expenses 140 ($1.2M) Net assets 42 ($680k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (63)Expenses (140)Net assets (42)Peer revenue range

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 $1.1M to $680k (−38%).

$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.1M
$680k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 8% · 2023 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of UTAH STEM FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$378k
’19
−$58k
’20
−$168k
’21
$86k
’22
−$102k
’23
−$291k
’24
−$424k
’25
6.7
months of
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.

Board chair

Eric Pope

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed151110101199
Joined·+1+4+0+2+0+0
No longer listed·550120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $70k → $219k.

6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 STEM FOUNDATION INC’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 STEM FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% 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

78% 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 STEM FOUNDATION INC.

27%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 45% · 2022 54% · 2023 95% — 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

17% of UTAH STEM FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

UTAH STEM FOUNDATION INC draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 10 states in all.

NY
OH
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Utah out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UTAH STEM FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−55% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

UT

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Questions and answers

Who funds UTAH STEM FOUNDATION INC?
UTAH STEM FOUNDATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $836,668 to it, the largest being BIOINDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN ECOSYSTEM INC ($227,396). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UTAH STEM FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $836,668 in grants to UTAH STEM FOUNDATION INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UTAH STEM FOUNDATION INC?
BIOINDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN ECOSYSTEM INC is the largest funder on record, with $227,396 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UTAH STEM FOUNDATION INC 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 19 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