# Huntsman World Senior Games **Type:** venture **Status:** Draft **Confidence:** Medium **Tier:** D **Focus:** senior athletics, multi-sport competition, active aging, St. George, international amateur sports **Roles:** program-project-management, field-skilled-trades, marketing-communications, people-operations **Stage:** Established nonprofit event; founded 1987 as World Senior Games; Huntsman sponsorship from 1989 **Primary Location:** St. George, UT **Utah Location:** St. George, UT (Washington County) **Region:** Washington County **Domain:** culture-place **Ownership:** nonprofit **Website:** https://seniorgames.net **Identifiers:** ein=87-0447330 **Map Location:** 1572 S Dixie Dr Ste 103, St. George, UT 84770 **Coordinates:** 37.0789, -113.5894 **Location Precision:** approximate **Location Source:** https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/870447330 **Updated:** 2026-08-11 **Needs-reviewed:** 2026-08-11 **Pull:** *Each October, St. George hosts a two-week senior multi-sport festival that draws athletes from dozens of countries — and calls itself the largest of its kind on Earth.* **Relates:** cites [Source: Huntsman World Senior Games — Official Website](huntsman-world-senior-games-official-website.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/huntsman-world-senior-games-official-website.md · https://seniorgames.net/about **Relates:** cites [Source: IRS Form 990 Record — World Senior Games Inc](world-senior-games-form-990-record.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/world-senior-games-form-990-record.md · https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/870447330 ## Summary The **Huntsman World Senior Games** is a two-week October multi-sport competition in **St. George, Washington County**, Utah, for athletes **50 and older**. The organization's own site calls it **"the largest annual multi-sport event in the world"** for that age group, with **40+ sports** and participants from **87 nations since 1987** ([official site](huntsman-world-senior-games-official-website.md)). The legal entity is **World Senior Games Inc** (EIN **87-0447330**), a St. George **501(c)(3)** tax exempt since **January 1987** ([Form 990 record](world-senior-games-form-990-record.md)). The event began as the **World Senior Games**, founded by **Daisy and John H. Morgan, Jr.**; **Jon M. Huntsman** became principal sponsor in **1989** ([official site](huntsman-world-senior-games-official-website.md)). ## Impact Washington County is far from Utah's Wasatch Front tech and biotech clusters; this is one of the state's largest recurring international gatherings in the rural southwest. The depth argument is physical: **40 athletic events** over **two weeks each October**, a year-round staff, and **2,500+** seasonal volunteers per the organization's account ([official site](huntsman-world-senior-games-official-website.md)). Health screenings (cancer, glaucoma, diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, bone density) run alongside competition — the Games frame themselves as active-aging infrastructure, not only a medal chase. The breadth argument rests on international draw. The site claims athletes from **87 nations** since **1987** and describes serious competitors from **Japan to Russia** and **Alaska to Australia** ([official site](huntsman-world-senior-games-official-website.md)). That is self-reported reach; no independent census of participants is in this shard. The **"largest in the world"** superlative appears twice on the captured About page ("largest annual multi-sport event" and "globe's largest multi-sport event") and is **the organization's own claim, not third-party verified**. The lead's hypothesis is therefore **supported only as attributed marketing**, not established fact. Primary-tier finances show real operating scale: FY ending **Dec. 2025** revenue **$3.98M** and expenses **$3.83M**, roughly half from **program services** and half from **contributions** ([Form 990 record](world-senior-games-form-990-record.md)) — a midsize nonprofit event engine, not a volunteer potluck. **Bet:** that hosting a branded international senior championship in a desert resort town is a durable economic and public-health intervention — tourism, volunteer culture, and screenings bundled with sport. The honest counterweight: superlatives, nation counts, and volunteer numbers are self-reported; the 2024 rebrand to **The Senior World Championships** is recent and its competitive significance is not independently documented here. ## Utah Context Headquartered and held in **St. George** (Washington County), outside the Wasatch Front where wiki coverage is thinnest. IRS registration at **1572 S Dixie Dr Ste 103** anchors the org in the same city as the competition footprint. Spectators attend competitions free per the organization's site; the event is a visible piece of "Color Country" civic identity. ## What They Need Now The organization's site emphasizes **thousands of volunteer opportunities** across sport direction, entertainment, and health screening support ([official site](huntsman-world-senior-games-official-website.md)). Year-round staffing plus a large seasonal volunteer corps implies ongoing needs in **event operations**, **registration and customer service**, **marketing/communications**, and **program administration** — inferred from how the Games describe themselves, not from a captured careers page (none was found). ## Open Questions - **"Largest in the world" is still unattributed, and one apparent corroboration is not one.** The [2025 Best of State program book](best-of-state-2025-winners-list.md) prints the same superlative verbatim — "the largest annual multi-sport event for athletes 50 and over in the world" — but the book's winner blurbs are drawn from the nominee's own submission, so that is the organization's claim in someone else's typeface, not third-party verification. It should stay attributed to the organization until an independent ranking establishes it. - **Participant headcount is missing.** Nations (87) are named; total athletes per year are not on the captured About page. - **The Best of State medals are documented for two years, and the run is probably longer.** The Games are the **Sporting Event** medalist in the 2025 program book and in the [2019 winners directory](best-of-state-2019-winners-list.md) ([2025 program book](best-of-state-2025-winners-list.md)). This wiki's recovered winner rows put them in the same category for 2013 and 2015 through 2018 as well, but those rows come from the Internet Archive rather than a captured document, so only the two years above are asserted. What a medal establishes is narrow — see [Best of State Awards](best-of-state-awards.md). - **JS-dependent site.** Future captures may need archive or CMS extraction; the current About capture used Prismic JSON embedded in HTML because automated render capture failed. ## Evidence - [Source: Huntsman World Senior Games — Official Website](huntsman-world-senior-games-official-website.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/huntsman-world-senior-games-official-website.md · https://seniorgames.net/about - [Source: IRS Form 990 Record — World Senior Games Inc](world-senior-games-form-990-record.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/world-senior-games-form-990-record.md · https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/870447330 - [Source: Best of State 2025 Awards Program Book (PDF)](best-of-state-2025-winners-list.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/best-of-state-2025-winners-list.md · https://www.bestofstate.org/__l5e/assets-v1/1a1ae534-b5f4-4d81-a8f0-394011da6318/2025_bos_winners.pdf - [Source: Best of State 2019 Winners Directory (PDF)](best-of-state-2019-winners-list.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/best-of-state-2019-winners-list.md · https://web.archive.org/web/20220406004717id_/https://bestofstate.org/pdf/2019_BOS_Winners_lowres.pdf