Great Work — Utah

Sistema Utah

resource active confidence: Medium status: Draft updated 2026-08-11

Type
resource
Status
Draft
Confidence
Medium
Tier
D
Builder-tier
A
Founder-tier
n/a
Activity-signal
2025-09-29 · https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/455259246
Activity-checked
2026-08-14
Focus
El Sistema, after-school orchestra, free music education, West Valley City, Title I schools
Primary Location
Draper, UT
Utah Location
West Valley City, UT (two program sites at American Preparatory schools)
Region
West Valley City
Domain
culture-place
Website
https://www.sistemautah.org
Identifiers
ein=45-5259246
Updated
2026-08-11
Relates
cites Source: Sistema Utah — Official Website · https://www.sistemautah.org/
Relates
cites Source: Sistema Utah — About Page · https://www.sistemautah.org/about.html
Relates
cites Source: IRS Form 990 Record — Sistema Utah · https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/455259246

Summary

Sistema Utah provides free after-school orchestra and band instruction to underserved students through an El Sistema model (about page). Fifteen hours of weekly instruction makes it deeper than a typical enrichment class, but captured pages do not establish whether its Draper registration is also a teaching site.

Who It's For

Children at participating West Valley City school sites — described as Title I schools with a majority of students on free or reduced lunch (about page). The homepage lists instruments from violin through percussion, bucket band, and taiko (official site). Advanced students join Sistema Strings performance groups that play community service concerts.

How To Use It

This shard captured no enrollment application workflow. Contact [email protected] or 385-351-3090 x 1139 per the organization's site (official site). The About page describes the program as hosted at American Preparatory school sites rather than open drop-in registration at the Draper mailing address on the IRS record.

Open Questions

  • Draper vs. West Valley City. IRS address is 12894 S Pony Express Rd Ste 400, Draper; all captured program-site language points to West Valley City schools. Whether Draper hosts any instruction is not stated on captured pages — the lead's dual-city framing is only half documented.
  • 990 scale vs. program scale. FY 2024 revenue was $24,791 on the 990-EZ (Form 990 record) against a self-reported ~400 students and 15 hours/week each. How labor, instruments, and facilities are financed beyond cash contributions is not explained in captured documents.
  • The Best of State medals are now documented, and they are two, in one year. The 2025 program book lists Sistema Utah as the winner in Children's Orchestra (Arts & Entertainment) and in Musical Instruments (2025 program book). Read that as two paid category entries judged on their own submissions, not as two contests won against deep fields — see Best of State Awards for what a medal establishes. For a nonprofit running on $24,791 of reported revenue, what it usefully corroborates is that the program was operating at the scale it describes in 2025.

Evidence