Minnesota · Public charity
Southwest Minnesota Arts Council
To provide funds and services to promote and support the arts in the 18 counties of southwest minnesota.
- $637k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $477k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $29,562
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $720k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Southwest Minnesota Arts Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $477k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $500k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $403k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $406k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $391k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $380k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $393k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $262k | 52% |
100% 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$2.6MPublic Benefit$457kEducation$175kHuman Services$57kCommunity Improvement$48kCivil Rights$27kHousing & Shelter$22kHealth$17kOther$0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hutchinson Center for the Arts | $258,933 | 9 | 29% |
| Department of Public Transformation | $184,653 | 7 | 13% |
| Wilder Pageant Committee Inc | $180,929 | 8 | 37% |
| Pipestone Performing Arts Center | $157,458 | 8 | 22% |
| Crow River Players Inc | $155,897 | 7 | 21% |
| Willmar Area Arts Council | $149,996 | 9 | 42% |
| Dawson-Boyd Arts Association | $133,751 | 9 | 30% |
| Marshall Area Fine Arts Council | $111,589 | 9 | 24% |
| Milan Village Arts School Inc | $92,334 | 9 | 18% |
| Prarie Arts Chorale Inc | $84,776 | 9 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hutchinson Center for the Arts | $258,933 | 9 | 29% |
| Department of Public Transformation | $184,653 | 7 | 13% |
| Wilder Pageant Committee Inc | $180,929 | 8 | 37% |
| Pipestone Performing Arts Center | $157,458 | 8 | 22% |
| Crow River Players Inc | $155,897 | 7 | 21% |
| Willmar Area Arts Council | $149,996 | 9 | 42% |
| Dawson-Boyd Arts Association | $133,751 | 9 | 30% |
| Marshall Area Fine Arts Council | $111,589 | 9 | 24% |
| Milan Village Arts School Inc | $92,334 | 9 | 18% |
| Prarie Arts Chorale Inc | $84,776 | 9 | n/a |
| Worthington Area Symphony Orchestra | $82,000 | 6 | 24% |
| Jackson Center for the Arts | $76,221 | 6 | 31% |
| Friends of the Orchestra Ltd | $74,910 | 7 | n/a |
| Granite Falls Municipal Hospital and Manor | $74,800 | 4 | n/a |
| Willmar Area Symphonic Orchestra | $72,568 | 8 | n/a |
| Bird Island Cultural Centre | $68,762 | 7 | 15% |
| Amp | $68,125 | 5 | 35% |
| Blue Mound Area Theater | $62,666 | 5 | 6% |
| City of Madison | $60,292 | 3 | n/a |
| Rhythm of the River | $58,766 | 7 | n/a |
| Granite Area Arts Council | $55,546 | 5 | 17% |
| Lake Benton Opera House Inc | $52,601 | 5 | 23% |
| Upper Minnesota Valley Dev Comm | $49,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Riversong Music Festival | $40,454 | 5 | 29% |
| Friends of the Auditorium Inc | $39,124 | 4 | 8% |
| Sunburg Community Center | $38,073 | 4 | n/a |
| Dassel Area Historical Society Inc | $36,726 | 3 | 25% |
| Foundation for Innovation in Education | $35,000 | 5 | 15% |
| City of Montevideo | $33,072 | 2 | n/a |
| Southwest Minnesota Dance Ltd | $32,565 | 4 | 35% |
| City of Spicer | $31,155 | 5 | n/a |
| Kerkhoven Lions Club Foundation | $30,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Granite Falls Historical Society | $29,850 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Worthington | $26,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Canby Area Arts Council | $25,700 | 4 | n/a |
| Prairie Arts Continuum | $24,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Cultural Awareness Organization | $23,865 | 4 | 10% |
| City of Slayton | $21,652 | 2 | n/a |
| Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership | $21,519 | 1 | 0% |
| Blackjack Babies (Dawson-Boyd Public Schools Isd #378) | $21,510 | 2 | n/a |
| Reclaim Community | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Marshall | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Cottonwood | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lower Sioux Indian Community | $19,516 | 1 | n/a |
| Southwest Minnesota State University Foundation | $19,050 | 3 | 0% |
| Dakota Wicohan | $18,990 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Litchfield Opera House Assn | $18,257 | 2 | 13% |
| City of Tracy | $17,938 | 2 | n/a |
| Green Earth Players Inc | $17,622 | 2 | n/a |
| Jd Productions Inc | $17,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Tylers Arts Council Inc | $16,035 | 2 | n/a |
| Independent School District 129 | $15,048 | 2 | n/a |
| Redwood Area Arts | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Appleton | $14,065 | 1 | n/a |
| Calumet Players | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Silver Lake | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Milan Initiative | $13,915 | 2 | 20% |
| Al Opland Singers Inc | $13,890 | 2 | n/a |
| Mni Sota Arts | $12,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Arts | $12,060 | 1 | n/a |
| Isd #2902 - Russell Tyler Ruthton Public Schools | $10,961 | 1 | n/a |
| Isd #2190 - Yellow Medicine East | $10,526 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Mountain Lake | $10,206 | 1 | n/a |
| Litchfield Community Theatre Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Madison Art Gallery | $9,500 | 1 | 9% |
| Society for Preservation & Encrgmnt of Barbershop Quartet Singing Amer | $9,318 | 1 | n/a |
| Willmar Community Theatre | $9,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Fond Du Lac Development | $7,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Winsted Arts Council | $7,034 | 1 | n/a |
| Marshall Public School 0413-01 | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lyon County Agricultural Society | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Independent School District518 | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Luverne Initiatives for Tomorrow | $7,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Family Child Care Support | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Eden Valley | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Midwest Music Foundation Incorporated | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Preserve Appletons Heritage | $7,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum & Tourist Center | $7,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Madison Healthcare Services | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pipestone County Historical Society | $7,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Rock County Historical Society | $7,000 | 1 | 2% |
| McLeod County Fair Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Buffalo Lake | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Clinton Graceville Beardsley Com Ed | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southwest Minnesota Pride | $6,990 | 1 | n/a |
| Buffalo Ridge Chorale | $6,972 | 1 | n/a |
| Redwood Area Communities Foundation | $6,766 | 1 | 1% |
| Iftin Somali Youth Organization | $6,450 | 1 | n/a |
| League of Women Voters of Minnesota Educ | $6,094 | 1 | 1% |
| New London Arts & Culture Alliance Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rock County Fine Arts Association Inc | $5,980 | 1 | n/a |
| Murray County Historical Society Inc | $5,550 | 1 | n/a |
| Minnesota Valley Community Concert Association | $5,450 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Southwest Minnesota Arts Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.
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.
Southwest Initiative FoundationMN65.1× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Southwest Initiative Foundation · Minnesota Historical Society · C K Blandin Foundation · Communitygiving · Minnesota Community Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · United Way of Southwest Minnesota · Minnesota Humanities Center · The McKnight Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · First Children's Finance · The Minneapolis 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.
About Southwest Minnesota Arts Council
- How much does Southwest Minnesota Arts Council give?
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Council reported 42 itemized grants totaling $477,017, out of $637,007 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Southwest Minnesota Arts Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (76%), Public Benefit (13%), Education (5%).
- Who are Southwest Minnesota Arts Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hutchinson Center for the Arts ($259k), Department of Public Transformation ($185k), Wilder Pageant Committee Inc ($181k).
- Does Southwest Minnesota Arts Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Southwest Minnesota Arts Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southwest Initiative Foundation, Minnesota Historical Society, C K Blandin Foundation.
- Where is Southwest Minnesota Arts Council based?
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Council is based in MN.
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