· Public charity
Minot Area Council of the Arts
To support and advance the full range of arts for all ages and abilities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $12,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $16,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
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 (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
We are the Arts Council for Bismarck, ND. We promote the arts, arts organizations, and arts professionals in our community. We also create unique programming for the community.
Support of the arts
Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra (NDSO) was formed as a nonprofit organization in 2006 to bring live professional music to the Hudson Valley. Orchestra members include professional musicians and music educators, as well as talented…
Public service of the arts for the Campbell County, SD, community.
Music & arts performances
Founded in 1980 the Fargo Moorhead Choral Artists FMCA performs choral music of all styles and from all musical periods FMCA provides a musical outlet for the finest choral musicians in the region FMCA rehearses weekly on Tuesday evenings…
Present classical music concerts to the public.
The bismarck-mandan civic chorus was founded in 1977, to promote quality choral music in the community and throughout central north dakota.
Music Saint Croix creates artistically excellent performances with exciting and unusual programming for the enjoyment of St. Croix Valley audiences.
Creating community by providing access to performing arts education and experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bismarck-Mandan Orchestral Association and the most unlike its peers is Theo Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 MOUSE RIVER PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds NORSK HOSTFEST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MINOT SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BISMARCK-MANDAN ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LONG X ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRONS OF THE MINOT PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds DAKOTA PRO MUSICA ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PLAINS OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET ↗
- Who funds Lake Region Heritage Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Lillian and Coleman Taube Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds THEO Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL DAKOTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR ↗
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: North Dakota Community Foundation · Magic City Lions Club · The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Minot Area Council of 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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