Utah Perchology

[dubob]

First, lets look at how Money is "managed" in Utah.  Like most states, we have a general fund that every dime is put into.

That simply isn't true.  There are many fund catagories in Utah other than the "General Fund" and legislation is passed every year that species into which fund collected revenues will be placed.  The three main funds are General, Education, & Transportation.  I would guess that in order to have a donation ear-marked for a specific fund that the donor would have to contact the Utah OMB office for specifics on how to do that - if possible at all.  I'm in favor of such donations and am not trying to be negative here, but the myth that we only have the 'General Fund' for all money collected just isn't the case.  The Utah budget process and funding is way more complex than that.

Here is a link to a PDF document that shows a very general structure of funds collection and distribution in Utah:
  https://le.utah.gov/interim/2012/pdf/00002067.pdf