Minnesota · Public charity
Northwest Minnesota Arts Council
Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. Facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.
- $545k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $399k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,895
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $41,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $209k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Northwest Minnesota Arts Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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 | 36 | $399k | 39% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $272k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $257k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $239k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $208k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $208k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $224k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $208k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thief River Falls Area Community Theater | $280,250 | 9 | 49% |
| Aurora Center for the Arts | $157,335 | 7 | 30% |
| Summer Arts Stages | $109,650 | 9 | 30% |
| Tri County School District | $83,625 | 7 | n/a |
| Middle River Community Theater Inc | $76,980 | 8 | n/a |
| Kittson Central Isd #2171 | $56,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Roseau Isd #682 | $53,970 | 4 | n/a |
| Stephen Argyle School District #2856 | $50,990 | 6 | n/a |
| Goodridge Veterans Memorial Park | $49,385 | 7 | n/a |
| Stephen Arts Council | $40,630 | 5 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thief River Falls Area Community Theater | $280,250 | 9 | 49% |
| Aurora Center for the Arts | $157,335 | 7 | 30% |
| Summer Arts Stages | $109,650 | 9 | 30% |
| Tri County School District | $83,625 | 7 | n/a |
| Middle River Community Theater Inc | $76,980 | 8 | n/a |
| Kittson Central Isd #2171 | $56,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Roseau Isd #682 | $53,970 | 4 | n/a |
| Stephen Argyle School District #2856 | $50,990 | 6 | n/a |
| Goodridge Veterans Memorial Park | $49,385 | 7 | n/a |
| Stephen Arts Council | $40,630 | 5 | n/a |
| Warroad Summer Theatre Company | $40,316 | 4 | 37% |
| L Association Des Francais Du Nord Afran | $39,000 | 4 | n/a |
| City of East Grand Forks | $38,755 | 4 | n/a |
| East Grand Forks Music Boosters Inc | $35,540 | 3 | n/a |
| Roseau County Historical Society | $32,075 | 3 | 6% |
| Warroad Community Partners Inc | $28,000 | 3 | n/a |
| WAO Public School | $24,200 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Roseau | $23,920 | 3 | n/a |
| Marshall County Agricultural Association | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Care and Share Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Palmville Press & Publishing Inc | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pennington County Fair Association | $19,360 | 2 | 3% |
| Ada - Borup School District | $19,010 | 4 | n/a |
| City of Warren | $17,955 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Grygla | $17,160 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Hallock | $17,155 | 2 | n/a |
| Win-E-Mac Alumni Association | $16,480 | 2 | 62% |
| Folk School Warroad | $13,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Polk County Agricultural Fair Assoc Iation | $11,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Sons of Norway Snorre Lodge # 70 | $11,140 | 2 | n/a |
| Red Lake County Agriculture Society | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gary Cares | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| In Progress | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Roseau County Agricultural Society Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Crookston Aquatics Boosters Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Thief River Falls Chamber of Commerce | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Crookston Community Theatre | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Ada Chamber of Commerce | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Norman County Agriculture Society | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| First Lutheran Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sand Hill Settlement Historical Society | $8,190 | 1 | n/a |
| Hallock Mainstreet | $7,090 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Minnesota Crookston | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Halstad | $6,990 | 1 | n/a |
| Middle River Community Club | $6,310 | 2 | n/a |
| Kittson County Historical Society | $6,040 | 1 | n/a |
| East Polk Heritage Center | $5,740 | 1 | n/a |
| Firefly Center for Art & Wellbeing | $5,675 | 1 | n/a |
| Pine to Prairie Folk School | $5,200 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($641k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Northwest Minnesota Arts Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 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: Northwest Minnesota Foundation · Hartz Foundation · Minnesota Historical Society · C K Blandin Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Northwest Minnesota Arts Council
- How much does Northwest Minnesota Arts Council give?
- Northwest Minnesota Arts Council reported 36 itemized grants totaling $398,560, out of $545,278 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Northwest Minnesota Arts Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (87%), Recreation & Sports (3%), Public Benefit (2%).
- Who are Northwest Minnesota Arts Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Thief River Falls Area Community Theater ($280k), Aurora Center for the Arts ($157k), Summer Arts Stages ($110k).
- Does Northwest Minnesota Arts Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Northwest Minnesota Arts Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Minnesota Foundation, Hartz Foundation, Minnesota Historical Society.
- Where is Northwest Minnesota Arts Council based?
- Northwest Minnesota Arts Council is based in MN.
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