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Minot Area Council of the Arts at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Minot Area Council of the Arts

To support and advance the full range of arts for all ages and abilities.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$137kCommunity Improvement$52k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $12,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $16,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$461k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$12,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LONG X ARTS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%MINOT COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%BISMARCK MANDAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 10%LAKE REGION HERITAGE CENTER INC: $7k → 13%MOUSE RIVER PLAYERS: $10k → 10%THEO ART SCHOOL: $5k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE MINOT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 10%DAKOTA PRO MUSICA: $10k → 10%MINOT SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%NORTHERN PLAINS BALLET: $7k → 10%MSU SUMMER THEATRE: $10k → 10%CENTRAL DAKOTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR: $5k → 10%NORTHWEST ART CENTER: $7k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Dakota West Arts Council Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Meadowlark Arts Council Inc

Support of the arts

Arts & Culture
3
Seward Arts Council
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4
Nielsen Chorale
Arts & Culture
5
Northern Dutchess Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Campbell County Arts Council Inc

Public service of the arts for the Campbell County, SD, community.

Arts & Culture
7
Cedar City Music Arts Association

Music & arts performances

Arts & Culture
8
Fargo-Moorhead Choral Artists

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Wayzata Symphony Orchestra

Present classical music concerts to the public.

Arts & Culture
10
Bismarck Mandan Civic Chorus

The bismarck-mandan civic chorus was founded in 1977, to promote quality choral music in the community and throughout central north dakota.

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11
Music St Croix

Music Saint Croix creates artistically excellent performances with exciting and unusual programming for the enjoyment of St. Croix Valley audiences.

Arts & Culture
12
Northern Prairie Performing Arts

Creating community by providing access to performing arts education and experiences.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bismarck-Mandan Orchestral Association; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $52,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMINOT STATE UNIVERSITY: $17,000 · OtherMINOT STATE UNIVERSITYMINOT COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · OtherMINOT COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATIONPATRONS OF THE MINOT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 · OtherPATRONS OF THE MINOT PUBLIC LIBRARYLillian and Coleman Taube Museum of Art: $5,250 · OtherLillian and Coleman Taube Museum of ArtNORSK HOSTFEST ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNORSK HOSTFEST ASSOCIATIONMINOT SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMINOT SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INCMOUSE RIVER PLAYERS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMOUSE RIVER PLAYERSBISMARCK-MANDAN ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBISMARCK-MANDAN ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATIONLONG X ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLONG X ARTS FOUNDATIONDAKOTA PRO MUSICA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDAKOTA PRO MUSICAWESTERN PLAINS OPERA COMPANY INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWESTERN PLAINS OPERA COMPANY INCNORTHERN PLAINS BALLET: $7,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN PLAINS BALLETLake Region Heritage Center Inc: $7,000 · Arts & CultureLake Region Heritage Center IncCENTRAL DAKOTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR: $5,250 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL DAKOTA CHILDREN'S CHOIRTHEO Inc: $5,250 · Education
Other$94,350Arts & Culture$89,250Education$5,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORSK HOSTFEST ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMINOT SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMOUSE RIVER PLAYERS: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetBISMARCK-MANDAN ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLONG X ARTS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetWESTERN PLAINS OPERA COMPANY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetNORTHERN PLAINS BALLET: $7,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLake Region Heritage Center Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetLillian and Coleman Taube Museum of Art: $5,250 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHEO Inc: $5,250 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCENTRAL DAKOTA CHILDREN'S CHOIR: $5,250 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

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.

North Dakota Communit…Magic City Lions ClubThe Tom and Frances L…Amazonsmile Foundation
North Dakota Community FoundationND15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Dakota Community Foundation · Magic City Lions Club · The Tom and Frances Leach Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Minot Area Council of the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minot Area Council of the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Minot Area Council of the Arts?

    Find your warmest path to Minot Area Council of the Arts through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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