Utah · Nonprofit
UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA
UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA (Utah) receives grants from 157 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,780,761 to it, the largest being TANNER CHARITABLE TRUST ($5,672,500). 116 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 157
- Grants received
- $30M
- Net assets
- $58M
What Utah Symphony & Opera does
Mission
Mission - Connect the community through great live music. Vision - Perform, engage, inspire. The artistic leadership of the organization is committed to representing a broad range of musical styles, including traditional works, contemporary pieces, and new commissions to add to the canon of classical music. Community investment in Utah Symphony | Utah Opera strengthens our economy and enhances our quality of life. Utahns have long recognized that a person's quality of life rests, in part, on the community's commitment to the arts to inspire the human spirit and motivate the betterment of mankind. Over the years, Utah has experienced growth and prominence and continues to become established as a hub for business innovation and scientific research in the United States. Utah Symphony | Utah Opera stands as an influential cultural leader that is often cited by companies as an attraction for a successful and talented workforce to the region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Code 711130 SYMPHONIC CONCERTS - The Utah Symphony was founded during the Great Depression as a Works Progress Administration orchestra under Roosevelt's New Deal. Today, the Utah Symphony is the premiere orchestra in the Intermountain West and one of only sixteen year-round orchestras in the nation. This ranking compares favorably to Utah's rank of 30th among states in population size. The Utah Symphony presented 80 in-person concerts at Abravanel Hall and in communities throughout Utah, reaching approximately 157,300 audience members during the season. A variety of programs are offered featuring some of the industry's most illustrious artists in performance with the Utah Symphony in programs ranging from Classical Symphonies, to Jazz, to Pops. Please see utahsymphony.org for more information. The Utah Symphony | Utah Opera's Education Program benefits Utah's children and is one of the largest in the country, reaching approximately 52,000 students and 2,300 teachers during the fiscal year. Through our education program offerings, each school district in Utah is visited every three to five years. The reach of this programming is far greater than performing arts organizations in…
$14,993,490 spent$5,797,787 earned by the program57% of program spendingCode 711110 OPERA PERFORMANCES - Utah Opera performs in Salt Lake City's Capitol Theatre, reaching an audience just under 27,000. Utah Opera offered 24 performances of four mainstage productions this year. Utah Opera has a nationally renowned costume shop, and features some of the top singers, directors, conductors, and designers from around the country. A Resident Artists program provides aspiring young singers an opportunity to refine their craft while performing secondary roles and singing in education and community outreach programs. Please see utahopera.org for more information. A prime example of the services we are able to render to the arts community is the value housed in the Utah Opera Production Studios. One-of-a-kind facility, the Utah Opera Production Studios houses a team of artisans, designers, and skilled craftsmen who bring the art form of opera to life for Utah Opera and performing arts organizations around the world through its sets and costumes construction and rentals programs. The Utah Opera Production Studios bring the integration of all production activities of the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera to one resourceful location (Costume Shop & Rentals, Prop Studio,…
$5,346,605 spent$966,907 earned by the program20% of program spendingCode 711130 DEER VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL - Currently in its twenty first season, the Deer Valley Music Festival is the summer home of the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera, reaching an audience of nearly 37,000 during the summer season. The festival provides chamber music, classical, family, and pops offerings in many venues: Deer Valley Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater, St. Mary's Church, and salons in private Park City homes. Please see deervalleymusicfestival.org for more information.
$3,268,068 spent$1,933,227 earned by the program12% of program spendingOther Program services include: Depreciation of Set Equipment - $112,532; Marketing - $1,371,849; Box Office - $553,129; Education - $535,687; Misc. - $35,942
$2,609,139 spent$176,494 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,217,302.
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 2020 to 2021, from $50M to $65M (+31%).
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 20% · 2018 20% · 2019 16% · 2020 34% · 2021 48% · 2022 40% · 2023 24% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Steven Brosvik
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 50 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose $2.4M → $4.3M.
23 of 157 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dell Loy Hansen Utah Symphony Foundation Symphony Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA raised.
From the IRS filings of UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 157 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 SYMPHONY & OPERA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
27% 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 SYMPHONY & OPERA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 28% · 2019 22% · 2020 19% · 2021 22% · 2022 14% · 2023 23% — 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
53% of UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
72% of UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 SYMPHONY & OPERA's funding base is broadening — from 50 funders to 68 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $102k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$102k
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 SYMPHONY & OPERA
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: 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 SYMPHONY & OPERA?
- UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA (Utah) receives grants from 157 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,780,761 to it, the largest being TANNER CHARITABLE TRUST ($5,672,500). 116 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA have?
- IRS filings report 157 organizations giving $29,780,761 in grants to UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA, 116 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA?
- TANNER CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,672,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 157 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