· Public charity
Arts Midwest Incorporated
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 149 grants below total $5,008,062 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,643,782 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $635,720 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k114 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k26 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| South Arts | $1,000,000 |
| Regents of the Univ of Colorado a body corporate | $75,000 |
| VICTORIA THEATER ARTS CENTER | $67,000 |
| YOUTH ART TEAM | $67,000 |
| MASA CENTER | $67,000 |
| BI-OKOTO DRUM & DANCE THEATRE | $67,000 |
| RACING MAGPIE | $67,000 |
| TBEY ARTS CENTER INC | $67,000 |
| SOUTH ASIA INSTITUTE | $67,000 |
| RIVER WEST THEATER INC | $67,000 |
| BEMIDJI COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL INC | $55,000 |
| BLACK ALPHABET NFP | $55,000 |
| MARGINAL ENTROPY INC | $55,000 |
| OH SEW POWERFUL INC | $55,000 |
| GIRLS ROCK PINE RIDGE INC | $55,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
229 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2025, 161 since wound down; 74 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TSTENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $356k · revenue +69%
- PSPENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL9× · 2017–2025 · $309k · revenue +55%
- KSKENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $308k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- FTFOR THE LOVE OF THE ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +226% · 81% of their budget
- SPSACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -27%
- LLLA LUZ HISPANAone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0% · 37% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Overture Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is E-Danza. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
471 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 471 of the 667 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds South Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE THEATRE OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds PENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds IDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds ALLEY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds AMHERST GLEBE ARTS RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds A Noise Within ↗
- Who funds WILL GEERS THEATRICUM BOTANICUM ↗
- Who funds GROUP I ACTING COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds LANTERN THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN-AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE THEATER AT MONMOUTH ↗
- Who funds OHIO ARTS PROFESSIONALS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds QUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds American Players Theatre of Wisconsin Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds SEVEN STAGES INC ↗
- Who funds PENNYROYAL ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Bush Foundation · Theater League Inc · The McKnight Foundation · Minnesota Humanities Center · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · Propel Nonprofits · South Arts Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Jerome Foundation Inc · Play on Shakespeare
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arts Midwest Incorporated funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Delaware Shakespeare Festival Inc — 18% of income from government
- Actors' Shakespeare Project — 6% of income from government
- Fishtrap Inc — 5% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
- Olney Theatre Corporation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.