Utah Humanities Council
Salt Lake City, UT · EIN 87-0307076. Reported 55 grants totalling $729,109 to 43 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. For Utah Humanities Council, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A70Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 7% 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. 10% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $26,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torrey House Press | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $47,860 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Utah State University | Logan, UT | $35,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Spy Hop Productions Inc | Salt Lake City, UT | $33,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Brolly Arts | Park City, UT | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Box Elder Museum Foundation | Brigham City, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Documentary Expression and Art | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southeastern Utah Society of Arts and Science Inc Dan Olaurie Museum | Moab, UT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Story Crossroads | West Jordan, UT | $23,800 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alf Engen Ski Museum Foundation | Park City, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Better Days 2020 | Highland, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Emerald Hills Institute | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of Cedar Mesa | Bluff, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Friends of the Children - Utah | Kearns, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| International Visitors Utah Council | Murray, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Murray City Cultural Arts | Murray, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Silver Reef Foundation Inc | Leeds, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Utah Chinese Association | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Uintah County Heritage Museum | Vernal, UT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Grand Staircase Escalante Partners Inc | Kanab, UT | $19,200 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Utah Museum of Contemporary Art | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Books & Bridges | Farmington, UT | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kcpw | Salt Lake City, UT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Listeners Community Radio of Utah Inc Krcl-Fm | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| West Valley Arts and Cultural Found Ation | W Valley City, UT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southern Utah University 01-65 | Cedar City, UT | $13,249 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Westminster University | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bryner Pioneer Museum Foundation | Price, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hutchings Museum | Lehi, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers | Logan, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kanab Writers Conference | Kanab, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Lupec | Ogden, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Salt Lake City Arts Council | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Utah Arts & Cultural Coalition Dba Utah Cultural Alliance | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Zion Canyon Mesa | Springdale, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bluff Community Foundation | Bluff, UT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kayenta Arts Foundation | Ivins, UT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nonprofit Legal Services of Utah Inc | Salt Lake City, UT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Resonance | Highland, UT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mountain Mediation Center Inc | Park City, UT | $7,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Artes De Mexico En Utah | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Utah Film Center Dba Salt Lake City Film Center and | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $6,400 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Park City Historical Society Inc | Park City, UT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
7 of 43 (16%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Artes De Mexico En Utah
"Born from Corn: The Soul of the Americas, Indigenous Perspectives," is a unique educational project that teaches the importance of corn and its "sister crops" in the Americas from the perspective of Indigenous peoples.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 31 of 43 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 | 20 | $306,260 | $20,000 |
| 2021 | 21 | $313,900 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 4 | $30,800 | $8,000 |
| 2023 | 10 | $78,149 | $8,000 |
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 $10,000 -- 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 Utah Humanities Council'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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 202 West 300 North, Salt Lake City, UT, 84103.
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