· Public charity
East Central Regional Arts Council
The EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL's purpose is to promote and encourage all of the arts in east central minnesota.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WYOMING AREA CREATIVE ARTS COMMUNITY | $60,132 |
| FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK | $29,600 |
| PINE CITY ARTS COUNCIL | $21,675 |
| UNEXPECTED COMPANY CHORALE | $21,150 |
| CITY OF LINDSTROM | $20,000 |
| KANABEC COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| NORTH BRANCH PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| MILLE LACS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY | $19,134 |
| EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA PRIDE | $17,200 |
| CITY OF HINCKLEY | $16,500 |
| CITY OF NORTH BRANCH | $16,310 |
| MILACA RECFEST & ACTIVITIES | $15,734 |
| PINE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $15,600 |
| CITY OF MORA | $13,659 |
| KANABEC COUNTY EXTENSION SERVICE | $11,341 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WAWYOMING AREA CREATIVE ARTS COMMUNITY9× · 2017–2025 · $243k · revenue +7% · 54% of their budget
- MLMille Lacs County Agricultural Society9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +104%
- PCPINE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- NWNORTH WOODS AND WATERS OF THE ST CROIX HERITAGE AREAone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0% · 59% of their budget
- ECEAST CENTRAL MN EDUCATIONAL CABLE Cone grant, 2018 · $15k
- COCITY OF PINE CITYone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
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.
To engage, educate, enrich, and entertain through inspiring arts experiences. the city-owned facility is managed to ensure use by a diverse set of patrons, enhance artistic opportunity, provide a creative environment for community…
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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.
Provide a theatre of live music and events!
Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.
The Organization's mission is to excite, engage and serve communities within the Iowa Great Lakes Region through our collections, exhibitions, performances, and educational programs; a non-profit center connecting generations of people…
Dedicated to nurturing, encouraging, and supporting arts in aitkin county mn.
Community center that provides art exper
The Nemeth Art Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization and gallery space located in rural northern Minnesota. Open in the summer months, the NAC exhibits contemporary art from emerging and recognized artists and is particularly…
To promote the arts to educate, entertain, and enlighten in northern WI.
River Arts Alliance supports and celebrates regional arts and culture by connecting artists and community in the Winona, MN region.
The Lake Benton Opera House, one of the premiere historic buildings in southwest Minnesota. Home to an active community theatre, the Opera House has begun its second century in our community.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 50 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS ↗
- Who funds WYOMING AREA CREATIVE ARTS COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Mille Lacs County Agricultural Society ↗
- Who funds Walker Methodist Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNEXPECTED COMPANY CHORALE ↗
- Who funds PINE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VASALOPPET INC ↗
- Who funds ONE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds PINE CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds 210 GALLERY AND ART CENTER COLLEEN SHATI ↗
- Who funds Play Inc Arts ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKES & PINES COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PARADISE COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH WOODS AND WATERS OF THE ST CROIX HERITAGE AREA ↗
- Who funds TUSEN TACK ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELIM HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds BEAR PAWS CULTURAL ART ↗
- Who funds CHISAGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Initiative Foundation · St Croix Valley Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · Hugh J Andersen Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization East Central Regional Arts Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from East Central Regional Arts Council. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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