Minnesota · Public charity
Lake Region Arts Council
To encourage and support the vitality of the arts in west central minnesota
- $503k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $346k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 42
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $405k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Lake Region Arts Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $346k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $377k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $305k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $388k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kicks Band of Fargo Moorhead | $75,004 | 4 | 34% |
| Art of the Lakes Association Inc | $67,390 | 4 | 13% |
| Fargo-Moorhead Choral Artists | $66,252 | 4 | 9% |
| Henning Landmark Center Inc | $61,523 | 4 | 18% |
| Central Square Inc | $59,030 | 4 | 2% |
| Fergus Falls Center for the Arts Inc | $53,305 | 3 | 5% |
| Dlccc Inc | $50,450 | 3 | 1% |
| Kaddatz Galleries Ltd | $50,409 | 3 | 6% |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College | $44,440 | 3 | n/a |
| Historical & Cultural Society of Clay County | $40,730 | 4 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kicks Band of Fargo Moorhead | $75,004 | 4 | 34% |
| Art of the Lakes Association Inc | $67,390 | 4 | 13% |
| Fargo-Moorhead Choral Artists | $66,252 | 4 | 9% |
| Henning Landmark Center Inc | $61,523 | 4 | 18% |
| Central Square Inc | $59,030 | 4 | 2% |
| Fergus Falls Center for the Arts Inc | $53,305 | 3 | 5% |
| Dlccc Inc | $50,450 | 3 | 1% |
| Kaddatz Galleries Ltd | $50,409 | 3 | 6% |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College | $44,440 | 3 | n/a |
| Historical & Cultural Society of Clay County | $40,730 | 4 | 1% |
| Cornerstone | $40,160 | 2 | 7% |
| Central Lakes Symphony Orchestra | $38,381 | 4 | 12% |
| Perham Center for the Arts | $36,113 | 4 | 5% |
| New York Mills Arts Retreat | $34,710 | 2 | 4% |
| Pelican Rapids Multicultural Committee | $32,834 | 4 | n/a |
| City of Fergus Falls | $32,820 | 2 | n/a |
| Gooseberry Park Players | $31,702 | 4 | 7% |
| Evansville Arts Coalition | $29,621 | 4 | n/a |
| Prairie Wind Players of Grant County Inc | $29,376 | 2 | 34% |
| Theatre L'Homme Dieu | $26,900 | 2 | 3% |
| Phelps Mill Country | $26,776 | 4 | 13% |
| Ulen Hitterdal School | $25,493 | 3 | n/a |
| Act Up Theatre | $25,264 | 4 | n/a |
| Pelican Rapids Public Schools | $25,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Rourke Art Gallery Museum | $20,990 | 3 | 6% |
| City of Pelican Rapids | $20,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Prairie Renaissance Cultural Allian Ce | $20,600 | 3 | n/a |
| Three Rivers Arts Council | $20,475 | 3 | n/a |
| Red Willow Arts Coalition | $19,776 | 4 | n/a |
| Dancebarn Collective | $19,520 | 2 | n/a |
| Lakes Chamber Music Society | $18,946 | 3 | n/a |
| Alexandria Area Arts Association | $17,465 | 2 | 2% |
| Ind School Dist 206 | $16,372 | 3 | n/a |
| Terrace Mill Foundation Inc | $15,149 | 4 | n/a |
| Grant Co Prairie Wind Players | $14,980 | 2 | n/a |
| Springboard for the Arts | $14,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Minnewaska Theatre Arts Association | $13,310 | 1 | n/a |
| Artistree Commmunity Inc | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Eshara | $12,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Fergus Area College Foundation | $12,350 | 1 | 2% |
| Concordia College Corporation | $11,940 | 1 | 0% |
| Otter Cove Childrens Museum | $11,130 | 3 | 2% |
| University of Minnesota | $10,940 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Moorhead | $10,000 | 3 | n/a |
| City of New York Mills | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Browns Valley Public Schools | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Alexandria Art Guild | $6,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Project 412 | $5,009 | 1 | 0% |
| Lakes Area Community Center | $3,708 | 1 | 3% |
| Fergus Falls Band Boosters | $3,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Prairie Woodcarvers | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Vergas | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Underwood Public School District #550 | $2,450 | 1 | n/a |
| Independent School District 152 | $2,070 | 1 | n/a |
| Douglas County Public Health Hospice | $1,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Immanuel Church Building Association | $1,114 | 2 | n/a |
| Elbow Lake Fire Department | $990 | 1 | n/a |
| Nordic Culture Clubs | $274 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lake Region Arts Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: West Central Initiative · Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · Roger L & Agnes C Dell Charitable Trust · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Otter Tail Corporation Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · The Lundeen Foundation · Frank W Veden Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Lake Region Arts Council
- How much does Lake Region Arts Council give?
- Lake Region Arts Council reported 30 itemized grants totaling $345,820, out of $503,067 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 42 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Lake Region Arts Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (89%), Education (6%), Youth Development (2%).
- Who are Lake Region Arts Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Kicks Band of Fargo Moorhead ($75k), Art of the Lakes Association Inc ($67k), Fargo-Moorhead Choral Artists ($66k).
- Does Lake Region Arts Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lake Region Arts Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include West Central Initiative, Otter Tail Power Company Foundation, C K Blandin Foundation.
- Where is Lake Region Arts Council based?
- Lake Region Arts Council is based in MN.
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