How much did HARLAN BOSS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of HARLAN BOSS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS’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.

02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $15k
$10k–50k14 grants · $262k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

WALKER WEST MUSIC ADACEMY$45,000
PARK SQUARE THEATRE$40,000
NE SCULPTURE GALLERY FACTOR$25,000
SKYLARK OPERA$22,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$20,000
PEOPLE INCORPORATED$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE ST PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY$15,000
METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$15,000
AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL$10,000
RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$10,000
ONE VOICE$10,000
MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART$10,000
HIGHPOINT CENTER FOR PRINTMAKING$10,000
CONTINENTAL BALLET COMPANY$5,000

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 7%. 90% of your 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 18 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%

+77%

Still filing today

72%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationOther

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

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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +67%
PI
People Incorporated
5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +36%
RC
Ramsey County Historical Society
5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +3%

Funded once

SC
SCHUBERT CLUB INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +77%
MM
Minnesota Museum of Modern Art
one grant, 2020 · $25k
SS
STEPPING STONE THEATRE FOR YOUTH
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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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Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts

Enriching community by collecting, preserving and making accessible outstanding works of art

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Humanities Center

To spark positive change by increasing collective understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our histories through stories and experiences.

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The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture

Contemporary Arts Center

To provide public access to contemporary art. The Contemporary Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary arts center that is dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of the arts of our time.

Arts & Culture

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society

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

Arts & Culture

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

North Iowa Cultural Center & Museum

Provide cultural, educational, and entertainment opportunities.

Arts & Culture

Minnesota Historical Society

Using the power of history to transform lives through educational initiatives, history exhibitions and programs, historic preservation, accessibility to a network of historic sites, publications of Minnesota historical content and archival…

Arts & Culture

North Star Theater Company

Arts & Culture

McColl Center for Art Innovation

We champion contemporary artists and spark creative experiences for positive community impact.

Arts & Culture

Great Lakes Center for the Arts

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park Square Theatre and the most unlike its peers is Ramsey County Historical Society Inc. 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

16 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)

16/16

Grantees still filing

8/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$685,000Arts & Culture$466,000Education$167,500

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · William Boss Foundation · Target Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ea Michelson Philanthropy

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 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.

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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: Skylark Opera.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 411375724 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 Skylark Opera, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 30% of their budget — diversified.
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.

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How do I get to Harlan Boss Foundation for the Arts?

Find your warmest path to Harlan Boss Foundation for the Arts 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.

HARLAN BOSS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Harlan Boss Foundation for the Arts?

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HARLAN BOSS FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Harlan Boss Foundation for the Arts?

More from the funding graph