How much did CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

festivaldanceartartist residencyexperiencesperformingaudience

2020

foleyfestivalfiscal agentdanceartartist residencyexperiences

2021

artist recoveryvirtual artistvirtual capcity

2022

paynesvillestudentsmonticelloinnovativesherburnefiscal agentart enrichment

2023

focuspersonshistoryrelationshipcareconnectionsaction

2024

refugevocationalstudentsskillsbestdisabilitiesmichael

2025

veteransmelrosevocationalstudentseducate inspireart enrichmentmichael

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $132k
$10k–50k29 grants · $566k

$13,500

Median grant

States reached

$582k

Total assets

Largest grants

CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF ST CLOUD$36,000
CITY OF MONTICELLO (FISCAL AGENT FOR MONTIARTS)$30,050
AVON HILLS FOLK SCHOOL$28,000
ST CLOUD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$26,000
GREAT RIVER CHORALE$26,000
PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS$25,960
GREAT RIVER EDUCATIONAL ARTS THEATRE$25,800
SOAR REGIONAL ARTS$25,200
COLLEGE OF ST BENEDICT$22,774
BUFFALO COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA$22,614
CENTRAL MINNESOTA YOUTH ORCHESTRA$22,492
BUFFALO COMMUNITY THEATER$21,304
THE SAINT JOHN'S BOYS' CHOIR$20,999
MINNESOTA CENTER CHORALE$20,762
WIRTH CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$19,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $306k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.6M · 50 repeat orgs$297k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.6M

$197k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+38%

Still filing today

56%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

PC
PARAMOUNT CENTER FOR THE ARTS (FISCAL AGENT-ATHENA MUSIC & LEADERSHIP CAMP)
7× · 2018–2024 · $291k · revenue +8%
BC
BUFFALO COMMUNITY THEATER
7× · 2018–2024 · $202k · revenue +26% · 59% of their budget
CM
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF ST CLOUD
7× · 2018–2024 · $202k · revenue +0% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

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510 ART LAB
one grant, 2021 · $16k
CO
CITY OF FOLEY (FISCAL AGENT FOR FOLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE)
one grant, 2020 · $14k
SM
ST MICHAEL ALBERTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
one grant, 2023 · $12k

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

04Your field

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.

Central Minnesota Arts Board

Fund local arts programs

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Mesabi Community Orchestra

Create an opportunity to play orchestral music in NE Minn

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The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society

To enrich the Twin Cities by sharing distinctive and engaging chamber orchestra performances.

Arts & Culture

Wayzata Symphony Orchestra

Present classical music concerts to the public.

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Orchestral Association

An internationally-recognized orchestra dedicated to enriching and serving minnesota community.

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Youth Symphonies

Youth orchestra education programs dedicated to conservatory-level oechestral training.

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Red Wing Arts Association

Our mission is to build a vibrant community fueled by the arts. We enrich lives by connecting, celebrating, inspiring, and leading through shared art experiences. Our vision is a community alive with creativity.

Arts & Culture

Singers Minnesota Choral Artists

Through the performance of established works and the programming of new music The Singers serve as artist educators and ambassadors of the choral art.

Arts & Culture

Skylark Opera

Skylark opera theatre will provide minnesota audiences with the highest artistic quality, accessible performances of opera and music theater and will develop and highlight the finest local and regional talent.the organization has been…

Arts & Culture

Jazz Central Studios

Jazz Central Studios is dedicated to preserving the innovative jazz arts in the Twin Cities. We present live music to the community in a non-commercial listening environment and encourage collaboration and education among musicians of wide…

Arts & Culture

La Crosse Community Theatre

To honor and celebrate our rich theatrical heritage while establishing a sustainable foundation for the years to come.

Arts & Culture

Fargo-Moorhead Choral Artists

Founded in 1980 the Fargo Moorhead Choral Artists FMCA performs choral music of all styles and from all musical periods FMCA provides a musical outlet for the finest choral musicians in the region FMCA rehearses weekly on Tuesday evenings…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitygiving and the most unlike its peers is Saint Johns Boys Choir. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/86

the rest of the field

152/2,068

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.

05the grantee network

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/46

Grantees still filing

36/46

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,723,107Other$1,620,196Human Services$328,622Education$141,919Youth Development$76,000Food & Nutrition$36,000Community Improvement$16,000

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.

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.

CommunitygivingMN67.8× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota · Morgan Family Foundation · Initiative Foundation · United Way of Central Minnesota · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc · The McKnight Foundation · Ja Wedum Foundation · Connexus Energy Foundation · Minnesota Humanities Center

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 organisation CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BUFFALO COMMUNITY THEATER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 411816290 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BUFFALO COMMUNITY THEATER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 59% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Central Minnesota Arts Board?

Find your warmest path to Central Minnesota Arts Board through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Central Minnesota Arts Board?

More from the funding graph

CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Central Minnesota Arts Board?

More from the funding graph