How much does Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council give?

Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council reported 57 itemized grants totaling $420,545, out of $705,400 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (72%), Education (8%), Human Services (6%).

Who are Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fairmont Opera House Inc ($89k), State Street Theatre Co ($84k), Project G E M ($81k).

Does Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation, Mankato Area Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.

Where is Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council based?

Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council is based in MN.

Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council

Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council

To provide promotion, technical and developmental assistance and grants to non-profit arts organizations, community groups, schools and individual artists.

$705k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$9k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.0MEducation$220kHuman Services$151kCommunity Improvement$127kRecreation & Sports$98kHealth$73kPublic Benefit$24kEnvironment$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 57 grants below total $420,545, the rows itemized in this filing. The $705,400 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $284,855 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.

$8,313

Median grant

States reached

$295k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CITY OF GREEN ILSE	$9,000
UNITING CULTURES MULTICULTURAL FIE	$9,000
HACER	$9,000
MINNESOTA OVER 60 BAND	$9,000
CITY CENTER PARTNERSHIP	$9,000
MINNESOTA SONGWRITER SANCTUARY	$9,000
THE GRAND CENTER FOR ARTS & CULTURE	$9,000
MADELIA ARTS COLLABORATIVE	$9,000
IMAGINE MARTIN	$9,000
CARNEGIE ART CENTER	$9,000
OLD TOWN MANKATO DAY OF THE DEAD	$9,000
MANKATO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA	$8,313
ARTS CENTER OF ST PETER	$8,313
BLUE EARTH VALLEY CONCERT ASSOC	$8,313
LA GRANDE BANDE GAYLORD	$8,313

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.6M · 59 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.6M

$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+20%

Still filing today

56%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

FO
FAIRMONT OPERA HOUSE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +74%
SS
STATE STREET THEATRE CO
9× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +246%
AC
ARTS CENTER OF SAINT PETER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +91%

Funded once

SM
SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INDEPENDENT LIVING ENTERPRISES & SERVICES INC
one grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +11%
OT
OLD TOWN COLLABORATIVE
one grant, 2024 · $9k
WG
WANDA GAG MONUMENT COMMITTEE
one grant, 2017 · $8k

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.

04Its 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.

Meadowlark Arts Council Inc

Support of the arts

Arts & Culture

Sioux City Community Theater

Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts

Arts & Culture

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

Music Association of Minnetonka

The organization provides programming which allows musicians and audiences to experience and perform a wide range of music types.

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Aitkin County Friends of the Arts

Dedicated to nurturing, encouraging, and supporting arts in aitkin county mn.

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Lake Benton Opera House Inc

The Lake Benton Opera House, one of the premiere historic buildings in southwest Minnesota. Home to an active community theatre, the Opera House has begun its second century in our community.

Arts & Culture

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

Region 2 Arts Council

Strengthening the presence of the arts by supporting opportunities for arts creation, promotion, and education throughout the community in north central minnesota.

Arts & Culture

Wayzata Symphony Orchestra

Present classical music concerts to the public.

Arts & Culture

Mounds Theatre Company

We believe that performing arts can engage stimulate inspire challenge educate reflect,empower and nourish artists audiences and communities. We are committed to the cultural enrichment of Saint Pauls ethnically and economically diverse…

Arts & Culture

Jazz Central Studios

Jazz Central Studios is dedicated to preserving the innovative jazz arts in the Twin Cities. We present live music to the community in a non-commercial listening environment and encourage collaboration and education among musicians of wide…

Arts & Culture

Minneapolis Musical Theatre Inc

Providing community affordable access to rare musicals

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mankato Symphony Orchestra Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dalekoarts. 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

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 79 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/41

Grantees still filing

27/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,402,088Arts & Culture$1,043,075Community Improvement$77,000Education$61,295Human Services$59,263Recreation & Sports$54,000Philanthropy$18,000Civil Rights$12,000

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.

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.

Southern Minnesota Initiative FoundationMN46.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · Mankato Area Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Valley News Foundation · Glen a Taylor Foundation · Minnesota Historical Society · L & N Andreas Foundation · Wild Compass Environmental Education · The McKnight Foundation · Jones Page Jacobson Family 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 Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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