Utah Humanities Council

Analysis

Utah Humanities Council is a registered charity in United States, based in Salt Lake Cty, UT. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover arts, culture and humanities, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending October 2023, Utah Humanities Council reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.7m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from October 2019 to October 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $1.7m (+17%), an average of +4.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to October 2020, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 45,478 United States charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Utah Humanities Council sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within UT. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Yale Law Journal Fund Inc ($1.7m), St Louis Shakespeare Festival ($1.7m) and Ethiopian and Eritrean Cultural and Resource Center ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending October 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $255k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $484k. At year end it held assets of $2.4m against liabilities of $321k, net assets of $2.1m. It reported 16 employees.