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Utahns for Responsive Government DBA Better Boundaries

EIN 82-1030846 Salt Lake City, UT

Revenue 2024
$502,964
Expenses 2024
$313,414

Program services were 37.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
Street
650 S 500 W 355

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Utahns for a Responsive Government, DBA Better Boundaries mission is to create an independent redistricting process that utilizes voter-centric standards. We use education, advocacy, policy, and the justice system to reach our goal of fair, politically neutral maps for all. Utah's 2021 decennial redistricting process saw record participation and engagement among Utahns. The first ever statewide independent commission created politically neutral maps that kept cities, counties, and communities together whenever possible. Their process was fully transparent and took the input from Utahns from across the state. Unfortunately, the Utah State Legislature adopted highly partisan gerrymandered maps that slice and dice communities. Better Boundaries remains committed to our mission and we are financially supporting the lawsuit while continuing to educate and engage Utahns.

  • Public Education and Outreach: Utahns for Responsive Government (DBA Better Boundaries), provides education and outreach across Utah to increase understanding of fair representation and transparent redistricting. The organizationconducts community presentations, public trainings, and digital campaigns explaining how maps are drawn and why fair processes matter. These efforts reachthousands of Utahns statewide through events, newsletters, and online platforms.

    Expenses $55,000

  • Advocacy and Ballot Defense (Amendment D): In 2024, Better Boundaries led the statewide campaign to oppose Amendment D, a legislative proposal that would have weakened Utahs citizen initiative process and undermined the fair redistricting standards voters enacted through Proposition 4. The organization coordinates public education, volunteer mobilization, and coalition efforts that successfully challenged Amendment D in court, resulting in its removal from the ballot.

    Expenses $46,314

  • Legal and Research Support: Better Boundaries supports litigation defending Proposition 4 and promoting transparency in Utah's redistricting process. The organization works with attorneys and policy partners to analyze legislative maps, track compliance with fair-map standards, and communicate updates to the public. This program ensured that Utah voters stay informed about ongoing court proceedings and legislative actions impacting fair representation.

    Expenses $16,105

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Timothy Chambless

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Karen Shepherd

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Ralph Becker

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Dixie Huefner

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Gigi Brandt

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Catherine Kanter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Noah Rosenberg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Sheryl Allen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Brian Jones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Yandary Chatwin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Ryan Bell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Laura Lewis Eyi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Katherine Wright

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $502,964
    Expenses
    $313,414
    Contributions
    $502,964
    Grants paid
    $42,375
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $208,929
    Expenses
    $324,207
    Contributions
    $208,929
    Grants paid
    $15,350
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $449,833
    Expenses
    $339,239
    Contributions
    $449,833
    Grants paid
    $10,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $449,833
    Expenses
    $339,239
    Contributions
    $449,833
    Grants paid
    $10,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $381,095
    Expenses
    $469,202
    Assets (EOY)
    $125,744

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $314,221
    Expenses
    $282,502
    Assets (EOY)
    $185,867

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $602,954
    Expenses
    $517,067
    Assets (EOY)
    $85,887

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

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Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.