Rup INC

Salt Lake City, UTUnknown exempt organization EIN 82-1603888Revenue $167K in FY2024Latest return filed May 15, 2025

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The Rural Utah Project works for political change in order to protect public lands in Utah for the benefit of all people.

Form 990-EZ Part III, FY2024. The organization’s own words, as filed with the IRS. Find it at the IRS (EIN 82-1603888) · Dispute this line
Run by 5 volunteers and 11 employees.
Mission: Form 990-EZ Part III · People: IRS e-file

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FY2024 · Form 990-EZIndependent: from IRS data, not the org
Download 990
Latest return
FY2024
latest Form 990-EZ
The latest return is for FY2024, 2 tax years back.
IRS e-file · Filing history
Surplus or deficit
4 of 4
filings with a surplus
Average surplus $239K a year · 23% of revenue · last 4 filings
A surplus in 4 of the last 4 filings.
990-EZ Pt I · Ln 18 · 4 filings
Pay to officers and key staff
$40K
to officers and key staff
No data yet: the filing does not give pay as a share of spending.
990-EZ Pt IV
Named funders
2
named funders · $72K
2 funders name it on their filings.
Funders’ Sch. I, 990-PF
Revenue
$167K
-82% vs prior year
Net assets
$0
By yearFY2020–FY2024
Revenue
$167K
FY2024▼ -82%
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Revenue by fiscal year
FY2020$1.2M
FY2021$968K
FY2022$1.0M
FY2023$947K
FY2024$167K
Expenses
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FY2024
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Expenses by fiscal year
FY2020$760K
FY2021$741K
FY2022$942K
FY2023$706K
FY2024Not on file
Net assets
$0
FY2024▼ -100%
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Net assets by fiscal year
FY2020$832K
FY2021$1.2M
FY2022$1.3M
FY2023$1.5M
FY2024$0

From the FY2024 Form 990 (year ending June 2024) · see the original

Is it real?

Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2024.

IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File

Who runs it and what they're paid

7 people listed on the 990-EZ; $40K paid to officers and key staff (Part VII, Section A).

990-EZ Part IV · reportable compensation
Executive Director
$40,179990-EZ Pt IV
$0990-EZ Pt IV
$0990-EZ Pt IV
$0990-EZ Pt IV
$0990-EZ Pt IV
$0990-EZ Pt IV
Trustee
$0990-EZ Pt IV

Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 1 named individual · 990-EZ Part IV

NameFY2024FY2023FY2022FY2021FY2020
Tj Ellerbeck$40,179$94,380$81,478$85,371$77,528

Total reportable compensation (Form 990-EZ Part IV column (c) / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.

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Programs and updates

Advocates for political change to protect Utah's public lands for everyone.

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2 programs · $529K · in their own filed words · FY2023
01

Issue Advocacy

RUP continued to engage in organizing work in numerous communities in nine counties in rural southern Utah. Through this program, RUP organizers held thousands of non-partisan, issue-based conversations with voters to learn the most effective way to organize in underrepresented rural communities.

Form 990-EZ Part III, lines 28–30, FY2023. The organization’s own words, as filed with the IRS. Find it at the IRS (EIN 82-1603888) · Dispute this line
$375Kprogram expense
02

Other Work

Additionally, RUP conducted other organizing work across the places we organize - this included some elections-based work, such as meeting with and supporting candidates for public office, and made contributions to some candidates campaigns.

Form 990-EZ Part III, lines 28–30, FY2023. The organization’s own words, as filed with the IRS. Find it at the IRS (EIN 82-1603888) · Dispute this line
$154Kprogram expense

Funders

Who pays for it.

From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.

Grants

Schedule I · funders on record
Grants received · FY2024
Total grants receivedfrom 2 funders$72K

By the numbers

The FY2024 990-EZ, line by line.

1The main four
Money in
$167K
Other income$167K
Owns and owes
$0
net assets
People
7
listed
Paid1
2In more detail
Revenue in detail
Other income$167K
Total revenue$167K
Assets in detailEnd of year
Net assets$0
Operations
Employees11
Volunteers5
Fiscal year endsJune

Filing history

YearMoney inMoney outIn minus outNet assetsDownload
FY2024 Latest ViewingFiled with the IRS May 15, 2025 $167K$0 990 PDF
FY2023Filed with the IRS Nov 15, 2024 $947K$706K$241K$1.5M 990 PDF
FY2022Filed with the IRS Nov 15, 2023 $1.0M$942K$80K$1.3M 990 PDF
FY2021Filed with the IRS Nov 15, 2022 $968K$741K$228K$1.2M 990 PDF
FY2020Filed with the IRS Nov 15, 2021 $1.2M$760K$409K$832K 990 PDF

Schedules filed Part IV

Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2024 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File

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