Minnesota · Public charity
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.
- $430k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $333k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $198k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Region 2 Arts Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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 | 25 | $333k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $318k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $278k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $159k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $159k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $191k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $134k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $164k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bemidji Symphony Orchestra | $180,564 | 8 | 15% |
| Bemidji Community Theater Inc | $175,103 | 7 | 22% |
| Northern Light Opera Company Incorporated | $170,837 | 8 | 25% |
| North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER | $118,733 | 8 | 17% |
| Bemidji Community Arts Council Inc | $111,384 | 7 | 6% |
| Heartland Arts Incorporated | $87,602 | 7 | 61% |
| Clear Waters Life Center | $79,292 | 6 | 4% |
| Bagley Area Arts Collaborative Inc | $75,246 | 3 | 50% |
| Farm By The Lake | $74,913 | 5 | 26% |
| Lake of the Woods Art Guild | $62,161 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bemidji Symphony Orchestra | $180,564 | 8 | 15% |
| Bemidji Community Theater Inc | $175,103 | 7 | 22% |
| Northern Light Opera Company Incorporated | $170,837 | 8 | 25% |
| North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER | $118,733 | 8 | 17% |
| Bemidji Community Arts Council Inc | $111,384 | 7 | 6% |
| Heartland Arts Incorporated | $87,602 | 7 | 61% |
| Clear Waters Life Center | $79,292 | 6 | 4% |
| Bagley Area Arts Collaborative Inc | $75,246 | 3 | 50% |
| Farm By The Lake | $74,913 | 5 | 26% |
| Lake of the Woods Art Guild | $62,161 | 4 | n/a |
| The Armory Arts & Events Center | $58,900 | 4 | 16% |
| Mask and Rose Womens Theatercollective | $58,340 | 6 | n/a |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College | $52,550 | 5 | n/a |
| Headwaters School of Music and Arts | $45,929 | 6 | 3% |
| Create Community Resilience Education Art Trainin | $35,505 | 3 | 0% |
| Northern Artist Association | $31,837 | 3 | n/a |
| Bemidji Sculpture Walk | $30,809 | 3 | n/a |
| Paul Bunyan Playhouse Inc | $24,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Independent School District#38 Red Lake Schools | $23,550 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Bemidji | $19,075 | 3 | n/a |
| Heartland Concert Association | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Loon Country Arts Collective | $18,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Northwest Indian Community Development Center Nwicdc | $18,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beltrami County Historical Society | $12,075 | 1 | n/a |
| Depot Preservation Alliance | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Manidoo Ogitigaan | $12,000 | 2 | 3% |
| City of Park Rapids | $12,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lake of the Woods School | $7,781 | 1 | n/a |
| Nameless Coalition for the Homeless | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nevis School Dist #308 | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake of the Woods County Fair Assoc | $6,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Bemidji Early Childhood Collaborative | $6,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Heartland Lakes Community School | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Clearbrook-Leonard Senior Citizens Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Mahnomen | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bemidji Area School District #31 | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Indigenous Environmental Network | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 4 Directions Development | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Peacemaker Resources | $6,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Imagine Recovery Retreat | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Region 2 Arts Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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 · C K Blandin Foundation · George W Neilson Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Mardag Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Minnesota Historical Society · The McKnight Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Region 2 Arts Council
- How much does Region 2 Arts Council give?
- Region 2 Arts Council reported 25 itemized grants totaling $333,212, out of $429,799 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Region 2 Arts Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (87%), Human Services (5%), Education (3%).
- Who are Region 2 Arts Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bemidji Symphony Orchestra ($181k), Bemidji Community Theater Inc ($175k), Northern Light Opera Company Incorporated ($171k).
- Does Region 2 Arts Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Region 2 Arts Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Northwest Minnesota Foundation, C K Blandin Foundation, George W Neilson Foundation.
- Where is Region 2 Arts Council based?
- Region 2 Arts Council is based in MN.
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