# Source: SBA Awards in Utah, FY2025 (USAspending) **Type:** source **Status:** Useful **Confidence:** High **Source Type:** dataset **URL:** https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award_count/ **Publisher:** USAspending.gov (U.S. Department of the Treasury), from Small Business Administration award reporting **Updated:** 2026-08-11 ## Summary What the Small Business Administration actually did in Utah in fiscal year 2025, from the federal award record rather than from the agency's description of itself. Two queries against USAspending — one for award counts, one enumerating the grant-category awards — filtered to awarding agency **Small Business Administration**, place of performance **Utah**, and the FY2025 window **2024-10-01 to 2025-09-30**. This exists because an SBA district office page is otherwise sourced entirely to `sba.gov`, which is good evidence of what SBA says it offers and no evidence of volume or of which Utah organizations actually carry the work. The award record answers both: guaranteed lending happens at four-figure annual scale in Utah, and the counseling network the district office refers people to is a named, funded list of grantees. ## Useful Claims - SBA awards with a Utah place of performance and at least one FY2025 transaction, by category: **1,964** loans, 198 direct payments, 9 grants, and 7 contracts. Loan guarantees, not grants, are what SBA does at scale in Utah, by three orders of magnitude. - The Utah SBDC network is SBA-funded through **Utah State University**: award **SBAHQ25B0017**, "UTAH SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER PROGRAM", **$1,695,762**, period 2025-01-01 to 2026-12-31. A separate CARES Act SBDC award to the same recipient, **SBAHQ20C0063** at **$1,562,273**, still carried FY2025 transactions. - The state's own economic-development office is an SBA grantee: **SBAHQ24G0044**, recorded as "FAST AWARDEE-GOVERNORS OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY", **$294,420.33**, running 2024-09-30 to 2029-09-29. The record gives only the acronym; do not expand it here without checking SBA's program documentation. - Other FY2025 grant-category recipients, with the award descriptions as recorded: **Utah Microenterprise Loan Fund** (SBAHQ25Y0131, **$151,000**); **Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce** twice, at **$150,000** each, one labeled Salt Lake City and one Cedar City (SBAHQ25W0012, SBAHQ25W0018); **Warrior Rising** (SBAHQ25V0042, **$105,000**, "SDVETP-2025"); and **Salt Lake Community College** (SBAHQ25V0035, **$75,000**, "FY25 WVETP-"). - "An SBA loan" is several different programs in this data. The largest FY2025 Utah loan record by face value is **$25,855,000** of SBIC leverage to Signal Peak Ventures IV-A, L.P. (Salt Lake County place of performance) — a guarantee on a venture fund's borrowing, not a small-business term loan. The set also includes surety bond guarantees (**$6,824,724.18** to T.W.S. Construction) and debenture-financed fixed-asset lending, which is the 504 program's mechanism as the record describes it (**$5,500,000** to Beehive Meals). ## Verbatim Award counts, from `POST https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award_count/`, returned exactly: ``` {"results": {"contracts": 7, "direct_payments": 198, "grants": 9, "idvs": 0, "loans": 1964, "other": 0}, "spending_level": "awards"} ``` Grant-category awards (types 04 and 05), from `POST https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award/`, as returned (`Award ID | Recipient Name | Award Amount | Description`): ``` SBAHQ25B0017 | UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | 1695762.0 | UTAH SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER PROGRAM SBAHQ20C0063 | UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | 1562273.0 | UTAH SBDC CARES ACT SBAHQ24G0044 | GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY | 294420.33 | FAST AWARDEE-GOVERNORS OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY SBAHQ25Y0131 | UTAH MICROENTERPRISE LOAN FUND | 151000.0 | UTAH MICROENTERPRISE LOAN FUND - UT SBAHQ25W0018 | SALT LAKE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | 150000.0 | SALT LAKE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (CEDAR CITY) SBAHQ25W0012 | SALT LAKE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | 150000.0 | SALT LAKE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (SALT LAKE CITY) SBAHQ25V0042 | WARRIOR RISING | 105000.0 | SDVETP-2025 WARRIOR RISING SBAHQ25V0035 | SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | 75000.0 | FY25 WVETP- SALT LAKE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ``` The three largest FY2025 Utah loan records, from the same endpoint with `award_type_codes` `07` and `08` (`Award ID | Recipient Name | Loan Value | Place of Performance City Code`), with the recorded award-type text: ``` 7846039110 | SIGNAL PEAK VENTURES IV-A, L.P. | 25855000.0 | UT**035 AWARDTYPE: GUARANTEED/INSURED LOANS ... LICENSED AND REGULATED SBICS USE THEIR OWN CAPITAL, PLUS FUNDS BORROWED WITH AN SBA GUARANTEE, TO MAKE EQUITY AND/OR DEBT INVESTMENTS IN ELIGIBLE SMALL BUSINESSES 25E2089914360001 | T.W.S. CONSTRUCTION INCORPORATED | 6824724.18 | UT**019 AWARDTYPE: GUARANTEED/INSURED SURETY BONDS ... GUARANTEE SURETY BONDS 7807369101 | BEEHIVE MEALS | 5500000.0 | UT**057 AWARDTYPE: GUARANTEED/INSURED LOANS ... LONG-TERM, FIXED-RATE FINANCING FOR FIXED ASSETS THROUGH THE SALE OF DEBENTURES TO PRIVATE INVESTORS ``` ## Reliability Notes Primary tier. These are the government's own award records, published under the DATA Act at a host obliged to keep them, and each award stays retrievable by its award ID at `https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON__073`. Five limits, and the first two are the reason this page enumerates a query rather than asserting a total. **The counts and the enumeration disagree by one.** The count endpoint returns 9 in the grants bucket; the award search restricted to grant types 04 and 05 returns the eight rows above. The ninth is not surfaced by the search, and rather than guess at it, this page reports both numbers as returned. **"FY2025" here means transactions, not awards started.** The filter selects awards with activity in the window, which is why a 2020 CARES Act award and a five-year FAST award both appear; none of these figures is an annual obligation. **Amounts are award-level, not disbursed.** For loans, USAspending's face value is the guaranteed amount, not government outlay or the borrower's balance. **Place of performance is as reported**, so an award to a national organization serving Utah may sit outside this slice, and a Utah recipient serving several states may sit inside it. **Program names are acronyms in the record** — FAST, SDVETP, WVETP — and this page reproduces them without expanding them, because the record does not. To re-check: ```bash curl -s -X POST https://api.usaspending.gov/api/v2/search/spending_by_award_count/ \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"filters":{"agencies":[{"type":"awarding","tier":"toptier","name":"Small Business Administration"}], "place_of_performance_locations":[{"country":"USA","state":"UT"}], "time_period":[{"start_date":"2024-10-01","end_date":"2025-09-30"}]},"spending_level":"awards"}' ``` ## Related Pages - [SBA Utah District Office](sba-utah-district-office.md) - [SBA Utah District Office Page](sba-utah-district-office-source.md) - [Utah Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity](utah-governor-s-office-of-economic-opportunity.md)