The Brigham Young Center
Legal name: Brigham Young Center Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821419324
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Sandy, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8018245111
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Printing, Publishing
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,000
- Expenses
- $135,760
- Assets
- $11,988
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- JOHN D ESPLIN (DIRECTOR)
- RONALD K ESPLIN (TREAURER/DIR)
- RICHARD E TURLEY JR (VICE CHAIR/D)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To bring together and make available the papers of Brigham Young and to facilitate biographical research, writing and publication about the life and world of Brigham Young.
What it reported doing in 2024
Transcription work: continuing transcribing efforts center on the manuscript history of the church that starts with brigham young's administration in 1847. These records have either not been previously transcribed or the transcription that is available is of questionable credibility.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 12
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.9%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -35.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $133K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.