While times have changed in the last 70 years, the Utah Foundation would still be recognizable to its founders today, said leaders of the nonprofit organization at an anniversary celebration Tuesday.
“The Utah Foundation is very much what its founders designed it to be,” said Communications Director Dan Bammes of the nonpartisan fact-finding group. “The Utah Foundation’s mission statement has evolved over the years, but it’s still true to the intent of its original founders.”
The Utah Foundation was formed in 1945 by a group of business leaders led by the president of the Chamber of Commerce at the time, Fred S. Muldock, as an entity to independently research tax policy and other critical issues as Utah ventured out of its thriving but unsustainable wartime economy.
Since its first report was issued in 1946, the Utah Foundation has published more than 730 reports on topics ranging from public schools to population growth to air and water quality to transportation to tax policy.
