How much does Arts Midwest Incorporated give?

Arts Midwest Incorporated reported 149 itemized grants totaling $5,008,062, out of $5,643,782 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 105 and 220 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Arts Midwest Incorporated fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (72%), Education (18%), Public Benefit (4%).

Who are Arts Midwest Incorporated's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: South Arts Inc ($1.0M), Tennessee Shakespeare Company ($356k), Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey ($330k).

Does Arts Midwest Incorporated fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Arts Midwest Incorporated?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Shubert Foundation Inc, The Bush Foundation, Theater League Inc.

Where is Arts Midwest Incorporated based?

Arts Midwest Incorporated is based in MN.

Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest Incorporated at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$5.6M

Granted FY2025still arriving

149

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.0M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$21MEducation$5.3MPublic Benefit$1.3MCrime & Legal$505kCommunity Improvement$284kHuman Services$277kYouth Development$213kPhilanthropy$103kOther$0

02FY2025 · 149 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 149 grants below total $5,008,062, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,643,782 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $635,720 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
South Arts	$1,000,000
Regents of the Univ of Colorado a body corporate	$75,000
VICTORIA THEATER ARTS CENTER	$67,000
MASA CENTER	$67,000
RACING MAGPIE	$67,000
TBEY ARTS CENTER INC	$67,000
RIVER WEST THEATER INC	$67,000
YOUTH ART TEAM	$67,000
BI-OKOTO DRUM & DANCE THEATRE	$67,000
SOUTH ASIA INSTITUTE	$67,000
OH SEW POWERFUL INC	$55,000
GIRLS ROCK PINE RIDGE INC	$55,000
MARGINAL ENTROPY INC	$55,000
Allied Media Projects	$55,000
INDIGENOUS ASSOCIATION	$55,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$20M · 229 repeat orgs$9.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

229

361

Total granted

$20M

$6.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+16%

Still filing today

59%

72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

TS
TENNESSEE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
9× · 2017–2025 · $356k · revenue +69%
PS
PENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
9× · 2017–2025 · $309k · revenue +55%
KS
KENTUCKY SHAKESPEARE INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $308k · revenue +34%

Funded once

LL
LA LUZ HISPANA
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue 0% · 37% of their budget
FT
FOR THE LOVE OF THE ARTS INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +226% · 81% of their budget
SP
SACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -27%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Studio Theatre Inc

Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.

Arts & Culture

Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture

Artists Repertory Theatre

Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.

Arts & Culture

On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

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The Center for International Theatre Development

Arts & Culture

Theatre Y

Create connections between diverse artists seeking mutual growth through collaboration.

Arts & Culture

Buntport Theater Company

Buntport theater company believes that it is necessary to create new works. in order to ensure utmost accessibility, we stress affordability, variety, abundance, and filtering creations through many minds. we believe that collaboration on…

Arts & Culture

Classic Theatre of Maryland Inc

Classic Theatre of Marylands mission is to produce bold re-imagined entertaining and accessible interpretations of classical works contemporary plays and musicals with a core commitment to the works of Shakespeare and other major…

Arts & Culture

Know Theatre of Cincinnati

Know Theatre is a small professional theatre showcasing voices, new works, & plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic…

Arts & Culture

Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture

State of the Arts Productions

Arts & Culture

Midland Center for the Arts Inc

To entertain, educate and inspire a diverse and expanding regional audiences in the arts, sciences and humanities.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Overture Center Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

471 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

119

Early backer (in before they grew)

461/471

Grantees still filing

284/471

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$11,993,746Other$7,807,387Education$941,120Philanthropy$123,000Youth Development$112,000Human Services$100,000Public Benefit$68,000Crime & Legal$60,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Shubert Foundation IncNY73.1× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arts Midwest Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts Midwest Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

69report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home