Utah · Nonprofit
Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries
Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries (Utah) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $490,000 to it, the largest being ACTION NOW INC ($190,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $503k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $490k
- Net assets
- $288k
What Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries does
Mission
Utahns for a Responsive Government, DBA Better Boundaries mission is to create an independent redistricting process that utilizes voter-centric standards. We use education, advocacy, policy, and the justice system to reach our goal of fair, politically neutral maps for all. Utah's 2021 decennial redistricting process saw record participation and engagement among Utahns. The first ever statewide independent commission created politically neutral maps that kept cities, counties, and communities together whenever possible. Their process was fully transparent and took the input from Utahns from across the state. Unfortunately, the Utah State Legislature adopted highly partisan gerrymandered maps that slice and dice communities. Better Boundaries remains committed to our mission and we are financially supporting the lawsuit while continuing to educate and engage Utahns.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Public Education and Outreach: Utahns for Responsive Government (DBA Better Boundaries), provides education and outreach across Utah to increase understanding of fair representation and transparent redistricting. The organizationconducts community presentations, public trainings, and digital campaigns explaining how maps are drawn and why fair processes matter. These efforts reachthousands of Utahns statewide through events, newsletters, and online platforms.
$55,000 spent47% of program spendingAdvocacy and Ballot Defense (Amendment D): In 2024, Better Boundaries led the statewide campaign to oppose Amendment D, a legislative proposal that would have weakened Utahs citizen initiative process and undermined the fair redistricting standards voters enacted through Proposition 4. The organization coordinates public education, volunteer mobilization, and coalition efforts that successfully challenged Amendment D in court, resulting in its removal from the ballot.
$46,314 spent39% of program spendingLegal and Research Support: Better Boundaries supports litigation defending Proposition 4 and promoting transparency in Utah's redistricting process. The organization works with attorneys and policy partners to analyze legislative maps, track compliance with fair-map standards, and communicate updates to the public. This program ensured that Utah voters stay informed about ongoing court proceedings and legislative actions impacting fair representation.
$16,105 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $117,419.
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.
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 $108k to $298k (+175%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Timothy Chambless
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $150k → $30k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries’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
Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.
Organizations like Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries
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
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Better Boundaries Accountability · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries: 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 Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries?
- Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries (Utah) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $490,000 to it, the largest being ACTION NOW INC ($190,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $490,000 in grants to Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries?
- ACTION NOW INC is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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