· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ST PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| ONE VOICE | $10,000 |
| CONTINENTAL BALLET COMPANY | $10,000 |
| HIGHPOINT CENTER FOR PRINTMAKING | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 24 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 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 FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS ↗
- Who funds SCHUBERT CLUB THE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN CLAY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONTINENTAL BALLET COMPANY ↗
- Who funds The Cedar Cultural Center Inc ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harlan Boss Foundation for the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harlan Boss Foundation for the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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