· Public charity
Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc
Semac exists to encourage, promote and assist regional arts development by providing leadership, outreach, advocacy, mentorship, grants, and services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 58 grants below total $758,370 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $971,955 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $213,585 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k57 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHEAST MN BLUEGRASS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL | $25,000 |
| MANTORVILLE THEATRE COMPANY | $24,890 |
| ROCHESTER REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY | $23,565 |
| MAINSPRING | $20,000 |
| SING OUT LOUD | $20,000 |
| MIDWEST MUSIC FEST | $20,000 |
| GALLERY 24 ARTISTS COLLABORATIVE | $20,000 |
| THEATRE DU MISSISSIPPI | $20,000 |
| MED CITY ARTS FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
| WIDESPOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $20,000 |
| AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| BRIDGE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | $17,275 |
| FREEBORN COUNTY ARTS INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
| ROCHESTER POPS ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
90 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SMSOUTHEAST MINNESOTA BLUEGRASS9× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +617% · 99% of their budget
- RRROCHESTER REPERTORY THEATRE9× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +158%
- ASAUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- DCDIVERSITY COUNCILone grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue -99%
- RIROCHESTER IRISH FESTone grant, 2017 · $10k
- NUNORTHFIELD UNION OF YOUTHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +68%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Inspire artists, audiences, and our greater southern wisconsin community to celabrate the art of theatre.
Arts presenter serving the greater Reedsburg area.
The mission of the Mankato Area Arts Council, DBA Carnegie Art Center, is to be a vibrant community destination that inspires, nurtures, and expands artistic, cultural, and educational experiences.
Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts
We provide services to enhance the availability of the arts. Some events are free, especially during our week when celebrate ArtBlast. Other events we charge to attend. We offer concerts, plays and other events especially at Christmas time.
Strengthening the presence of the arts by supporting opportunities for arts creation, promotion, and education throughout the community in north central minnesota.
Dedicated to nurturing, encouraging, and supporting arts in aitkin county mn.
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…
Music Saint Croix creates artistically excellent performances with exciting and unusual programming for the enjoyment of St. Croix Valley audiences.
Present classical music concerts to the public.
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…
Support of the arts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Choral Arts Ensemble of Rochester and the most unlike its peers is Ja Wedum Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 115 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA BLUEGRASS ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds SING OUT LOUD ↗
- Who funds MID WEST MUSIC FEST ↗
- Who funds Mantorville Art Guild ↗
- Who funds Theatre du Mississippi ↗
- Who funds Winona Civic Music Inc ↗
- Who funds Red Wing Arts Association ↗
- Who funds THE AUSTIN AREA COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MARINE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MANTORVILLE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FARIBAULT ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds LANESBORO ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSIC GUILD ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIVERLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ZUMBROTA STATE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORALE ↗
- Who funds Vintage Band Music Festival ↗
- Who funds CHORAL ARTS ENSEMBLE OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Rochester Area Foundation · Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Elizabeth Callender King Foundation · Mayo Clinic · Winona Foundation The · Winona Community Foundation · Minnesota Historical Society · Ibm International Foundation · Slaggie Family Foundation · Mardag Foundation · The McKnight Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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