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Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota Inc

The Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota is a consortium of the eleven Regional Arts Councils that serve all Minnesota counties, providing continuous improvement of the individual councils through implementation of best practices in programming, management, and leadership development and information for Minnesota artists and…

$200k
Granted FY2021
11
Grants FY2021
11
Organizations funded FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$11,484
Largest grant, FY2021
$80,299
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council$80,29912%
Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc$18,23112%
Central Minnesota Arts Board$15,75911%
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council$14,87312%
Southwest Minnesota Arts Council$13,10612%
Lake Region Arts Council$11,48412%
Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council$11,33311%
The Five Wings Arts Council$9,66712%
East Central Regional Arts Council$9,47712%
Northwest Minnesota Arts Council$7,99912%
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All grantees of Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council$80,29912%
Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc$18,23112%
Central Minnesota Arts Board$15,75911%
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council$14,87312%
Southwest Minnesota Arts Council$13,10612%
Lake Region Arts Council$11,48412%
Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council$11,33311%
The Five Wings Arts Council$9,66712%
East Central Regional Arts Council$9,47712%
Northwest Minnesota Arts Council$7,99912%
Region 2 Arts Council$7,77212%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetropolitan Regional Arts Council: $80,299 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSoutheastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc: $18,231 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCentral Minnesota Arts Board: $15,759 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetArrowhead Regional Arts Council: $14,873 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSouthwest Minnesota Arts Council: $13,106 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLake Region Arts Council: $11,484 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPrairie Lakes Regional Arts Council: $11,333 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Five Wings Arts Council: $9,667 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEast Central Regional Arts Council: $9,477 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNorthwest Minnesota Arts Council: $7,999 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRegion 2 Arts Council: $7,772 over 1y, 1.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The McKnight Foundati…
The McKnight FoundationMN28× affinity11 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota Inc

How much does Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota Inc give?
Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota Inc reported 11 grants totaling $200,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Metropolitan Regional Arts Council ($80k), Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc ($18k), Central Minnesota Arts Board ($16k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The McKnight Foundation.
Where is Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota Inc based?
Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota Inc is based in MN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $8k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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