· Public charity
Northwest Minnesota Arts Council
Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $268k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AURORA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $41,000 |
| THIEF RIVER FALLS AREA COMMUNITY THEATER | $40,960 |
| KITTSON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT | $22,250 |
| WARROAD SUMMER THEATER | $17,220 |
| SUMMER ARTS STAGES | $15,890 |
| FOLK SCHOOL WARROAD | $13,750 |
| ROSEAU COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $13,000 |
| EAST GRAND FORKS MUSIC BOOSTERS INC | $13,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $11,270 |
| CITY OF FOSSTON ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION | $10,000 |
| CARE AND SHARE OF CROOKSTON INC | $10,000 |
| WARROAD RIVERPLACE | $10,000 |
| EAST GRAND FORKS CAMPELL LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| ASSOCIATIONOFTHE FRENCHOFTHENORTH | $10,000 |
| WARROAD COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
43 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHIEF RIVER FALLS AREA COMMUNITY THEATER9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +87% · 49% of their budget
- WSWARROAD SUMMER THEATRE COMPANY4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +28% · 37% of their budget
- RCROSEAU COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY3× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- PCPOLK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIR ASSOC IATIONone grant, 2021 · $12k
- WCWARROAD COMMUNITY PARTNERSone grant, 2022 · $11k
- SASTEPHEN ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2022 · $11k
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.
Administration of fond du lac county fair - fond du lac, wisconsin
Promote & hold agricultural, horticultural, young, women's, mechanical arts, industrial and commercial projects, fairs and expositions.
To provide a county fair for rural iowa
PreservePromoteMN Agriculture and Heritage with Youth and Community
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Annual Jackson County Fair
Preserve History of Area
Conducting annual agricultural fair
Support of the arts
4-h/ffa fair
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 88 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 THIEF RIVER FALLS AREA COMMUNITY THEATER ↗
- Who funds AURORA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SUMMER ARTS STAGES ↗
- Who funds WARROAD SUMMER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ROSEAU COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CARE AND SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pennington County Fair Association ↗
- Who funds WIN-E-MAC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Northwest Minnesota Arts Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwest Minnesota Arts Council. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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