Utah · Nonprofit
VISUAL ART INSTITUTE
VISUAL ART INSTITUTE (Utah) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,657,579 to it, the largest being DICK AND TIMMY BURTON FOUNDATION ($1,180,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Mainshared funderslocal
- Harpo Foundation Incportfolio match
- Windgate Charitable Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 20% · 2021 26% · 2022 12% · 2023 7% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $10k → $483k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 VISUAL ART INSTITUTE’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
VISUAL ART INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 79% · 2019 72% · 2020 67% · 2021 39% · 2022 36% · 2023 48% — 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
50% of VISUAL ART INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
VISUAL ART INSTITUTE draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Petersen Bruce & Cecilia Fdn-Mainshared funderslocalMO · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 38 organizations near you
- Harpo Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Windgate Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Diane and Sam Stewart Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David Bermant Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wolf Kahn Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- LGT Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kanter Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marriner S Eccles Foundationshared funderslocalUT · backs 90 organizations that share your funders · funds 73 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like VISUAL ART INSTITUTE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VISUAL ART INSTITUTE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds VISUAL ART INSTITUTE?
- VISUAL ART INSTITUTE (Utah) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,657,579 to it, the largest being DICK AND TIMMY BURTON FOUNDATION ($1,180,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VISUAL ART INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,657,579 in grants to VISUAL ART INSTITUTE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VISUAL ART INSTITUTE?
- DICK AND TIMMY BURTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VISUAL ART INSTITUTE 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 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing