Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT · EIN 87-0386724. Reported 111 grants totalling $1,020,025 to 44 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 76% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $8,500. Half of what it reported fell between $6,000 and $10,300; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $21,950. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $151,050 | 15 | 4 | 2023 |
| Utah Film Center Dba Salt Lake City Film Center and | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $61,700 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Utah Museum of Contemporary Art | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $55,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Mundi Project | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Salt Lake Acting Company | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $48,200 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bad Dog Arts | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $47,100 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Utah Symphony & Opera | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $44,525 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Plan-B Theater Company | Salt Lake City, UT | $44,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ballet West | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $37,700 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Spy Hop Productions Inc | Salt Lake City, UT | $36,550 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Repertory Dance Theatre | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $36,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Center for Documentary Expression and Art | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $32,900 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $31,900 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Craft Lake City | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $30,900 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Junction Dance Co | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $26,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Artes De Mexico En Utah | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $25,900 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sundance Institute | Park City, UT | $23,900 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Salty Cricket Composers Collective | Salt Lake City, UT | $18,200 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Utah Arts Alliance | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $15,750 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Framework Arts Inc | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Utah Blues Society | West Jordan, UT | $13,750 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Salt Lake Music School Foundation | Slc, UT | $13,450 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kostopulos Dream Foundation Camp Kostopulos | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $11,450 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $11,200 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Salt Lake Film Society | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Heart & Soul | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $10,600 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Art Access | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Westminster University | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Salt Lake Capoeira | Salt Lake City, UT | $8,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beloved Community | Sandy, UT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Peace Gardens International Academy | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Utah Cultural Alliance Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Create Reel Change | S Salt Lake, UT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Salt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services Inc | Slc, UT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shango Music and Dance | Salt Lake City, UT | $5,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Utah Arts Festival Foundation Inc | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $5,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Torrey House Press | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ai Ya Ceramics | Salt Lake City, UT | $5,450 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Japanese American Citizens League | Layton, UT | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 4199 Saving the Great Salt Lake | Salt Lake City, UT | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pilar Pobil Legacy Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Childrens Media Workshop | Salt Lake City, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra | Sandy, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Leonardo Museum | Salt Lake City, UT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
26 of 44 (59%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 of 44 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 27 | $217,100 | $8,600 |
| 2021 | 36 | $324,500 | $8,250 |
| 2022 | 22 | $263,525 | $10,750 |
| 2023 | 26 | $214,900 | $8,050 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $8,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Utah.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Salt Lake Arts Council Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 54 Finch Lane, Salt Lake City, UT, 84102.
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