· Private foundation
Harlan Boss Foundation for the Arts
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALKER WEST MUSIC ADACEMY | $50,000 |
| PARK SQUARE THEATRE | $45,000 |
| NE SCULPTURE GALLERY FACTOR | $25,000 |
| MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART | $25,000 |
| PEOPLE INCORPORATED | $25,000 |
| SKYLARK OPERA | $25,000 |
| METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ST PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| HIGHPOINT CENTER FOR PRINTMAKING | $10,000 |
| ONE VOICE | $10,000 |
| CONTINENTAL BALLET COMPANY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WWWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $228k · revenue +882%
- PSPARK SQUARE THEATRE6× · 2020–2025 · $220k · revenue +2%
- SOSKYLARK OPERA6× · 2020–2025 · $129k · revenue +19% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- SCSCHUBERT CLUB THEone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +15%
- MMMinnesota Museum of Modern Artone grant, 2020 · $25k
- SSSTEPPING STONE THEATRE FOR YOUTHone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…
Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.
In the belief that the visual arts are indispensable to a healthy community, it is the mission of the minnetonka center for the arts to provide teaching excellence, quality exhibitions, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages,…
The mission of the Mankato Area Arts Council, DBA Carnegie Art Center, is to be a vibrant community destination that inspires, nurtures, and expands artistic, cultural, and educational experiences.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
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…
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
Artaria centers on string quartet performance and education in minnesota. it is committed to presenting inspiring performances, to mentoring string players of all ages, and to illuminate the world's great repertoire of chamber music to a…
To promote and enhance the creation, performance, and appreciation of the arts in the minnesota counties of benton, sherburne, stearns and wright by providing grants and services to arts and community organizations, cities, schools and…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Constellation is a performing arts presenter with an emphasis on forward- thinking practices, particularly in the areas of jazz, improvised, experimental, and contemporary classical music.
Strengthening the presence of the arts by supporting opportunities for arts creation, promotion, and education throughout the community in north central minnesota.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Clay Center and the most unlike its peers is Park Square Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 24 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
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 WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PARK SQUARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SKYLARK OPERA ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NE SCULPTURE GALLERY FACTORY ↗
- Who funds RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Highpoint Center for Printmaking ↗
- Who funds SCHUBERT CLUB THE ↗
- Who funds FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CLAY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONTINENTAL BALLET COMPANY ↗
- Who funds The Cedar Cultural Center 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: William Boss Foundation · Target Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Elmer L & Eleanor J Andersen Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Hrk Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation
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 Harlan Boss Foundation for the Arts 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.
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.
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