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Utah Sports Commission Foundation

Public charity · Grantmaker Salt Lake City, UT EIN: 87-0651075 Website

The Utah Sports Commission Foundation is a charitable organization governed by an all-volunteer board of trustees consisting of statewide sports, business, and community leaders, and was created to foster national and international amateur sports competitions to be held in the state of Utah.

Utah Sports Commission Foundation at a glance

In short: Utah Sports Commission Foundation gave $107K across 2 grants in 2025 (avg $53K), mostly in Utah. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.

Annual giving (2025)
$106,500
-2.3% vs 2024
Grants made (2025)
2
+0.0% vs 2024
Average grant
$53,250
-2.3% vs 2024
Median grant
$53,250
Total assets
$15,287,735
+11.0% vs 2024
Primary geography
Utah (100% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
Latest 990 filing
Form 990, 2025 View filing

Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.

Who Utah Sports Commission Foundation funds

How this funder distributes its grants

Top Recipients

Top 2 recipients in 2025

Tony Finau Foundation: $100KTony Finau Foundation$100KFor the Kids: $7KFor the Kids$7K

The largest 2025 recipient was Tony Finau Foundation ($100K). Together the top 2 received $107K.

Grant Size Distribution

10 grants across all recorded years

5<$50K3$50–100K2$100–250K$250–500K$500K–1M$1–5M$5M+

The most common grant size was under $50K: 5 grants of 10 (50%).

Geographic Focus

Where this funder awards grants

Grant Distribution by State

2states

Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 2 itemized grants.

States

Cities

LehiSalt Lake CityPonte Vedra BeachSLC

How Utah Sports Commission Foundation gives

  • Giving held roughly steady from 2022 to 2025 (+6%). Method

From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.

Giving History

Giving Over Time

Total grant dollars and number of grants per year

$0$50K$100K$150K2 grants2019 2 grants2020 2 grants2021 2 grants2022 2 grants2023 2 grants2024 2 grants2025

From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $60K (2020) to $109K (2024). In 2025 it made 2 grants totaling $107K.

Grants by year

Grant recipients and amounts by year

RecipientPurposeAmount
Tony Finau Foundation Lehi, UTGeneral Support$100,000
For the Kids SLC, UTGeneral Support$6,500
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Financial History

Multi-year comparison from IRS filings

Figures from IRS filings, by filing year
Filing yearTotal AssetsRevenueExpensesGrants paidGrantsNet Investment Income
2025$15,287,735$4,313,318$3,598,303$106,5002$429,096
2024$13,766,654$1,663,034$3,598,992$109,0002$536,090
2023$15,574,846$1,245,450$3,351,596$86,0002$269,357
2022$16,187,014$888,447$3,214,590$100,0002$13,782
2021$18,438,050$3,736,716$2,429,707$70,0002$10,288
2020$17,572,968$946,934$1,743,576$60,0002$92,159
2019$18,864,899$9,123,503$2,441,998$100,0002$41,101

About Utah Sports Commission Foundation

Based on IRS filings

Utah Sports Commission Foundation is a public charity focused on Recreation & Sports, based in Salt Lake City, UT. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $15.3M in total assets. In 2025, it awarded 2 grants totaling $107K. Net investment income was $429K.

Focus Areas

Leadership & Key People

Officers and directors from IRS filings

Utah Sports Commission Foundation is led by Jeff Robbins, President & CEO since 2024 (on filings since 2019); 3 of 39 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.

Officers on the 2025 filing

  • Jeff Robbins

    President & CEO

    President → President & CEO, 2024

    On filings since 2019

    35 hrs/week

    $246K (2019) → $389K (2025)

  • Christine Arthur

    Audit Committee Chair

    Audit Committee → Audit Committee Chair, 2024

    On filings since 2021

    0.3 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Spencer Cox

    Honorary Chair

    Honorary Cha → Honorary Chair, 2024

    On filings since 2021

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Al Mansell

    Trustee

    Trustee → Chairman Emeritus, 2020

    Chairman Emeritus → Trustee, 2021

    On filings since 2019

    0.8 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Cindy Crane

    Trustee

    On filings since 2019

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Curtis Bramble

    Trustee

    On filings since 2019

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • David Huntsman

    Trustee

    On filings since 2019

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Eric Heiden

    Trustee

    On filings since 2019

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Fraser Bullock

    Trustee

    On filings since 2019

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Gary Herbert

    Trustee

    Honorary Cha → Trustee, 2021

    On filings since 2019

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Greg Easton

    Trustee

    On filings since 2019

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • J. Steven Price

    Trustee

    Trustee → Immediate Pa, 2020

    Immediate Pa → Trustee, 2021

    On filings since 2019

    0.3 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Jenny Wilson

    Trustee

    On filings since 2019

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Mike Plant

    Trustee

    On filings since 2019

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Rob Brough

    Trustee

    On filings since 2019

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Tom Dolan

    Trustee

    On filings since 2019

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Erin Mendenhall

    Trustee

    On filings since 2020

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Ann Millner

    Trustee

    On filings since 2021

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Jake Boyer

    Trustee

    On filings since 2021

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Michael Lynch

    Trustee

    On filings since 2021

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Christian Gardner

    Trustee

    On filings since 2022

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Kathy Garff

    Trustee

    On filings since 2022

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Randall Taylor

    Trustee

    On filings since 2022

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Lisa Eccles

    Trustee

    On filings since 2023

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Rob Allen

    Trustee

    On filings since 2023

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Jefferson Moss

    Trustee

    On filings since 2024

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Mike Schultz

    Trustee

    On filings since 2024

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • John Hawkins

    Trustee

    New on the 2025 filing

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Kirk Cullimore

    Trustee

    New on the 2025 filing

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Paul Burdiss

    Trustee

    New on the 2025 filing

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Bridget Farfel

    Vice President of Marketing & Communications

    Vice President Marketing → Vice President of Marketing & Communications, 2025

    On filings since 2022

    20 hrs/week

    $116K (2022) → $140K (2025)

  • Chase Robbins

    Vice President of Finance

    New on the 2025 filing

    20 hrs/week

    $138K (2025)

  • Brad Wilson

    Co-Vice Chair

    Trustee → Co-Chair, 2021

    Co-Chair → Co-Vice Chair, 2024

    On filings since 2019

    0.3 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • David Layton

    Co-Chair

    Trustee → Co-Chair, 2025

    On filings since 2019

    0.5 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • David Simmons

    Co-Chair

    Trustee → Co-Chair, 2020

    On filings since 2019

    0.8 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Peter Mouskondis

    Treasurer

    Trustee → Treasurer, 2020

    On filings since 2019

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Stephen Miller

    Co-Chair & Secretary

    Trustee → Secretary, 2021

    Secretary → Co-Chair & Secretary, 2025

    On filings since 2019

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Stuart Adams

    Co-Chair

    Trustee → Vice Chair, 2021

    Vice Chair → Co-Chair, 2024

    On filings since 2019

    0.3 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Jim Sorenson

    Co-Vice Chair

    Co-Vice Chai → Vice Chair, 2021

    Vice Chair → Co-Vice Chair, 2024

    On filings since 2020

    0.2 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

Former officers (19)
  • Former: Gary Hoogeveen (2019–2024) — Trustee
  • Former: Marc Harrison (2019–2024) — Trustee
  • Former: Spencer Eccles (2019–2024) — Trustee
  • Former: Scott Anderson (2020–2024) — Trustee
  • Former: Jefferey C. Robbins (2023–2024) — Finance Director
  • Former: Burdiss Paul (2024) — Trustee
  • Former: Mike McKell (2023) — Trustee
  • Former: Francis Gibson (2019–2022) — Trustee
  • Former: Jason Perry (2019–2022) — Trustee
  • Former: David Lang (2019–2021) — Trustee
  • Former: Wayne Niederhauser (2019–2021) — Trustee
  • Former: David Wunderli (2019–2020) — Trustee
  • Former: Dell Loy Hansen (2019–2020) — Trustee
  • Former: Jackie Biskupski (2019–2020) — Trustee
  • Former: Lynch Michael (2019–2020) — Trustee
  • Former: Ben McAdams (2019) — Trustee
  • Former: Bill Rock (2019) — Trustee
  • Former: David Winder (2019) — Trustee
  • Former: James L. Sorenson (2019) — Trustee

Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.

Compensation Overview

From 2025 IRS filing

Jeff Robbins — President & CEO: $389KJeff RobbinsPresident & CEO$389KBridget Farfel — VP of Marketing & Communication: $140KBridget FarfelVP of Marketing & Communication$140KChase Robbins — VP of Finance: $138KChase RobbinsVP of Finance$138K

The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $389K, to Jeff Robbins (President & CEO). 3 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.

Frequently asked questions about Utah Sports Commission Foundation

How much does Utah Sports Commission Foundation give each year?

Utah Sports Commission Foundation gave $107K across 2 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $109K across 2 grants.

How large is Utah Sports Commission Foundation?

Utah Sports Commission Foundation reported $15.3M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $4.3M.

What is Utah Sports Commission Foundation?

Utah Sports Commission Foundation is a public charity focused on Recreation & Sports, based in Salt Lake City, UT. It holds $15.3M in total assets as of 2025.

Where does Utah Sports Commission Foundation operate?

Utah Sports Commission Foundation has awarded grants in Florida, Utah.

What is Utah Sports Commission Foundation's EIN?

Utah Sports Commission Foundation's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 87-0651075. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.

Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.

Data update history

(8)

When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable

  1. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS August 16, 2021)
  2. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS August 15, 2022)
  3. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS August 15, 2023)
  4. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS August 14, 2024)
  5. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS August 15, 2025)
  6. Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS August 11, 2020)
  7. Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS August 18, 2026)
  8. IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024

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