Minnesota · Public charity
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council
The ARROWHEAD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL's mission is to facilitate and encourage local arts development. This mission statement grows from a conviction that the arts improve the quality of life in the region. This mission is accomplished by providing arts services and by giving.
- $668k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $215k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $407k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Arrowhead Regional Arts Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $215k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $177k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $208k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $313k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $165k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $230k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $147k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $166k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Itasca Orchestra & Strings Program | $129,179 | 6 | 18% |
| Mesabi Community Orchestra | $127,673 | 8 | 24% |
| Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community | $78,030 | 4 | n/a |
| Ely Folk School | $69,093 | 5 | 15% |
| North Shore Music Associaiton | $68,641 | 5 | 15% |
| County Seat Theater of Carlton | $60,907 | 5 | 14% |
| Grand Marais Playhouse Inc | $60,088 | 6 | 8% |
| Good Harbor Hill Players | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Tofte Lake Center Inc | $48,307 | 5 | 5% |
| The Matinee Musicale Inc | $48,070 | 4 | 17% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Itasca Orchestra & Strings Program | $129,179 | 6 | 18% |
| Mesabi Community Orchestra | $127,673 | 8 | 24% |
| Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community | $78,030 | 4 | n/a |
| Ely Folk School | $69,093 | 5 | 15% |
| North Shore Music Associaiton | $68,641 | 5 | 15% |
| County Seat Theater of Carlton | $60,907 | 5 | 14% |
| Grand Marais Playhouse Inc | $60,088 | 6 | 8% |
| Good Harbor Hill Players | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Tofte Lake Center Inc | $48,307 | 5 | 5% |
| The Matinee Musicale Inc | $48,070 | 4 | 17% |
| Northern Lakes Arts Association | $47,350 | 4 | 9% |
| Armory Arts and Music Center | $44,145 | 5 | 6% |
| Edge of the Wilderness Community Center | $43,682 | 5 | 25% |
| Northern Film Alliance | $43,361 | 4 | 24% |
| Lyric Opera of the North | $42,225 | 3 | 9% |
| Prove Collective | $41,200 | 4 | n/a |
| Third Coast Chamber Collective Inc | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Grand Rapids Players Inc | $37,500 | 3 | 21% |
| Laurentian Arts and Culture Alliance | $37,308 | 3 | 18% |
| CITIZENS FOR BACKUS AB Inc | $36,730 | 3 | 2% |
| Ely Winter Festival | $36,456 | 4 | n/a |
| North Shore Music Association | $36,402 | 2 | n/a |
| Elys Historic State Theater | $34,678 | 3 | 3% |
| Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community | $27,185 | 3 | 1% |
| College of St Scholastica Inc | $22,580 | 3 | 0% |
| Homegrown Music Festival | $21,433 | 3 | n/a |
| Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community | $20,474 | 2 | n/a |
| Itasca Life Options | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borealis Chamber Artists | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Superior Youth Chorus Inc | $19,527 | 2 | 6% |
| American Indian Community Housing Organization | $17,190 | 2 | 0% |
| Duluth Art Institute Assoc | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Northwoods Friends of the Arts | $13,590 | 1 | 45% |
| Lake Superior Writers | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aitkin County Friends of the Arts | $12,500 | 1 | 8% |
| Icebox Radio Theater | $11,463 | 1 | n/a |
| Twin Ports Wind Ensemble | $10,807 | 2 | n/a |
| Spirit of the Lake Community Arts | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Duluth Children's Museum Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1720 | $10,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Wise Fool Shakespeare | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Duluth Fiber Guild | $9,426 | 1 | n/a |
| Historic Union Depot Corp | $8,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Arrowhead Chorale | $8,010 | 1 | n/a |
| Duluth Folk School | $8,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Two Harbors Area Arts & Events | $7,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Nordic Center | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Twin Ports Choral Project | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Duluth Superior Symphony Associatio | $6,527 | 1 | 1% |
| Cook County Historical Society | $6,043 | 1 | 1% |
| Lake Superior Railroad Musuem | $5,750 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Pachel Foundation · Northland Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · The Depot Foundation · Minnesota Historical Society · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Minnesota Power Foundation
How this is measured
About Arrowhead Regional Arts Council
- How much does Arrowhead Regional Arts Council give?
- Arrowhead Regional Arts Council reported 14 itemized grants totaling $215,000, out of $668,469 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arrowhead Regional Arts Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (69%), Community Improvement (2%), Education (1%).
- Who are Arrowhead Regional Arts Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Itasca Orchestra & Strings Program ($129k), Mesabi Community Orchestra ($128k), Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community ($78k).
- Does Arrowhead Regional Arts Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arrowhead Regional Arts Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lloyd K Johnson Foundation, Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Pachel Foundation.
- Where is Arrowhead Regional Arts Council based?
- Arrowhead Regional Arts Council is based in MN.
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