How much does Springboard for the Arts give?

Springboard for the Arts reported 90 itemized grants totaling $2,896,279, out of $3,674,429 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 77 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Springboard for the Arts fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (43%), Arts & Culture (33%), Human Services (6%).

Who are Springboard for the Arts's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Funny Asian Women Kollective ($544k), Cow Tipping Press ($490k), Rare Produtions LLC ($340k).

Does Springboard for the Arts fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Springboard for the Arts?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jerome Foundation Inc, Minnesota Humanities Center, The McKnight Foundation.

Where is Springboard for the Arts based?

Springboard for the Arts is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Public charity

Springboard for the Arts

To cultivate vibrant arts communities by connecting artists with the skills, information and services they need to make a living and a life.

$3.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 90
Itemized grants FY2025: 72
Organizations funded FY2024: 33%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $2.9M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,100
Largest grant, FY2025: $287,798
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 77; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 4
Total assets, FY2025: $16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Springboard for the Arts funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $441k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationOther

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	90	$2.9M	40%
FY2024	72	$1.9M	33%
FY2023	77	$2.0M	90%
FY2022	12	$432k	42%
FY2021	35	$788k	49%
FY2020	50	$817k	22%
FY2019	68	$1.2M	56%
FY2018	58	$921k	55%

90% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$5.2MArts & Culture$3.9MHuman Services$684kPhilanthropy$456kCommunity Improvement$360kScience & Tech$181kRecreation & Sports$102kReligion$82kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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
Funny Asian Women Kollective	$544,040	6	n/a
Cow Tipping Press	$490,473	6	n/a
Rare Produtions LLC	$339,600	3	n/a
Go Ko Go LLC	$259,925	6	n/a
Emerging Curators Institute	$246,243	5	n/a
Theatre 55	$199,712	4	50%
Queer Voices Minnesota	$185,884	1	n/a
Native Skywatchers Incorporated	$181,181	5	33%
Valerie Oliveiro	$180,200	3	n/a
Deborah Ramos	$156,855	3	n/a

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All grantees of Springboard for the Arts by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Funny Asian Women Kollective	$544,040	6	n/a
Cow Tipping Press	$490,473	6	n/a
Rare Produtions LLC	$339,600	3	n/a
Go Ko Go LLC	$259,925	6	n/a
Emerging Curators Institute	$246,243	5	n/a
Theatre 55	$199,712	4	50%
Queer Voices Minnesota	$185,884	1	n/a
Native Skywatchers Incorporated	$181,181	5	33%
Valerie Oliveiro	$180,200	3	n/a
Deborah Ramos	$156,855	3	n/a
Maia Maiden Productions	$145,040	6	n/a
Leslie Parker Dance Project	$141,747	3	n/a
Million Artist Movement	$139,685	2	n/a
Catalyst	$129,695	5	n/a
Lightning Rod	$129,004	4	n/a
Sobieski Music LLC	$113,032	3	n/a
Tru Ruts	$110,975	3	n/a
Molly Van Avery	$105,413	3	n/a
The Bucket Brigade	$104,500	3	n/a
Public Functionary	$103,671	4	n/a
Black Market Theater	$99,640	2	n/a
Trademark Theater	$97,073	2	62%
Strive Publishing LLC	$94,430	3	n/a
Voices of Hope LLC	$94,300	3	n/a
TriLingua Cinema	$92,559	2	59%
The Dial Group Inc	$90,794	3	n/a
Tangible Collective LLC	$90,271	3	n/a
Sharon Bailey	$88,400	3	n/a
Alanna Morris	$85,267	3	n/a
Reasons for Moving	$79,349	2	n/a
Scott Reynolds	$78,800	3	n/a
Arbeit Opera Theatre	$78,666	3	n/a
Prime Productions	$78,367	4	n/a
Eric Larson	$75,995	2	n/a
TEDxMinneapolis Incorporated	$75,857	2	43%
Grace Minnesota	$74,500	2	n/a
Praxis Photo Arts Center	$72,360	1	n/a
Flip the Script LLC	$67,985	2	n/a
Monkeybears Harmolodic Workshop	$66,350	2	n/a
Tana Hargest	$65,033	3	n/a
Yearly Emerging Practices	$62,925	1	n/a
Jessica Reyes	$61,845	2	n/a
Bart Buch	$60,450	3	n/a
Ololade Gbadamosi	$60,450	2	n/a
Nancy Cook	$59,625	3	n/a
Queer Gaze LLC	$56,161	1	n/a
Ernest Briggs	$56,021	3	n/a
Honeyworks	$55,970	2	n/a
Mary Prescott	$55,800	2	n/a
Operatunity Theatre	$53,297	2	78%
Kith & Kin Chorus LLC	$52,439	2	n/a
Danceco LLC	$52,000	3	n/a
Eye of the Heart Center	$50,403	3	n/a
Voices of Hope	$49,870	2	n/a
Ebony Aya	$48,837	2	n/a
Rory Wakemup	$47,292	3	n/a
Picture Book Parade	$46,500	1	n/a
Make a Scene LLC	$44,640	3	n/a
Wildling The	$43,764	3	n/a
Umbrella Collective	$42,338	2	n/a
Summit Music LLC	$41,990	3	n/a
Big Turn Music Festival	$40,920	1	n/a
Body Prayers LLC	$40,800	1	n/a
Sonora Winds LLC	$40,045	2	n/a
Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology	$40,000	1	3%
Sidewalk Detroit	$40,000	1	6%
Spacetaker	$40,000	1	n/a
Jennifer Glaws	$38,510	2	n/a
Phillip McGraw	$38,500	2	n/a
James Everest	$37,200	2	n/a
Jayson Hohlen	$37,200	3	n/a
Hatch Dance	$37,000	2	n/a
International Cello Institute	$36,945	2	20%
Bans Productions LLC	$35,850	2	n/a
Holy Cow Press	$33,725	3	n/a
Donald Teslow II	$33,607	3	n/a
James Tenbensel	$32,534	3	n/a
Ed LLC	$31,612	4	n/a
Ping Wang	$31,500	1	n/a
Darrius Strong	$30,646	3	n/a
Belville Productions LLC	$29,704	2	n/a
Minneapolis Choir Co-Op	$29,500	1	n/a
Danger Boat Productions LLC	$29,123	3	n/a
Threshold Theater LLC	$29,070	2	n/a
Nathan Allister	$28,978	2	n/a
Dance Mn	$28,906	3	n/a
Spiral Theater	$28,445	1	n/a
Fortune's Fool	$28,200	2	n/a
Haus of Sonder LLC	$27,900	1	n/a
Savage Umbrella	$27,810	2	n/a
Danza Espanola Deborah Elias	$27,249	2	n/a
Burn Something Collective LLC	$26,340	2	n/a
Drawing Connections	$25,702	3	n/a
Legacy Arts Group	$25,600	1	n/a
Twin Cities Flamenco Collective LLC	$25,034	1	n/a
Minneshowta	$23,740	2	n/a
Kathleen Purcell	$23,250	1	n/a
Alyssa Anderson	$23,250	1	n/a
Running Errands LLC	$23,250	1	n/a
Opera Reading Project	$23,184	1	32%
Kaleena Miller	$22,477	2	n/a
Brenna Mosser	$20,496	1	n/a
Rosy Simas Danse Inc	$20,301	2	8%
Flying Forms	$20,000	2	n/a
Karen Sherman	$19,867	2	n/a
Elizabeth Morgan Thorson	$19,500	2	n/a
One Earth United	$19,300	1	n/a
Patrick Scully Productions	$19,111	2	n/a
Black Bears & Blueberries LLC	$18,846	1	n/a
Deborah Jinza Thayer	$18,500	2	n/a
Queer and Funny Improv Festival	$17,993	1	n/a
Melrose Area Arts Council	$16,763	1	n/a
Supergroup	$16,726	1	n/a
Mara Emmons	$15,619	1	n/a
Sahar Hassan	$15,000	1	n/a
Red Wing Innovation Incubator Inc	$14,994	2	n/a
Ballet Co-Laboratory	$14,824	1	n/a
Cynthia Sautter	$14,823	1	n/a
In the Moment	$14,669	1	n/a
Ross Anderson	$13,950	1	n/a
Andrea Bagdon	$13,950	2	n/a
Lucas Erickson	$13,314	1	n/a
Buckslam Mn LLC	$13,164	1	n/a
Phantom Chorus Theatre	$12,641	1	n/a
Swede Hollow Arts Refuge	$12,470	1	n/a
Opera on the Lake LLC	$12,093	2	n/a
Body Cartography	$11,897	2	n/a
Maine Prairie Studio LLC	$10,956	1	n/a
Lumin Theater Lab	$10,946	1	n/a
10th Wave Chamber Music Collective	$10,840	1	n/a
Transatlantic Love Affair	$10,781	2	n/a
100 Percent Human Theatre	$10,327	1	n/a
Dancing Crow Productions Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Art of the Rural	$10,000	1	n/a
Giige	$10,000	1	n/a
Culturesource	$10,000	1	n/a
Melissa Wray	$10,000	1	n/a
Redline	$10,000	1	0%
Nancy X Valentine	$10,000	1	n/a
Elizabeth Loughlin	$10,000	1	n/a
Autumn Cavender-Wilson	$10,000	1	n/a
Roderick Bruce Jr	$10,000	1	n/a
Rufus Jupiter	$10,000	1	n/a
Siriaco Garcia	$10,000	1	n/a
Dear Gaza	$10,000	1	n/a
Lyle Miller	$10,000	1	n/a
Jolene Konkel	$9,528	1	n/a
Headcannon Creations	$9,424	1	n/a
Carmen Lincoln	$9,348	1	n/a
Arts Garden	$9,327	2	n/a
Artemis Brown	$9,300	1	n/a
Journey Productions	$9,300	1	n/a
Roshan Ganu	$9,300	1	n/a
Narate Keys	$9,300	1	n/a
Recreation Arts	$9,292	1	n/a
The Paper Lantern Project	$9,253	1	n/a
Akpe	$8,500	1	n/a
Little Brown Mushroom	$8,000	1	n/a
Sunday Coffee Concerts LLC	$7,900	1	n/a
Damian Leverett	$7,890	1	n/a
Andrew Looze	$7,865	1	n/a
Kaleena Miller Dance LLC	$7,529	1	n/a
Qalanjo Project	$7,500	1	n/a
For the Love	$7,442	2	n/a
Colleen O'Schaugnessy Pollack	$7,113	1	n/a
Sheep Theater	$6,915	1	n/a
Elayna Waxse Movement Project	$6,790	1	n/a
The Isles Ensemble	$6,365	1	n/a
Cahoot Physical Theatre	$6,200	1	n/a
Kristina de Sacramento	$6,181	1	n/a
Improv Parenting	$6,104	1	n/a
Persistent Theatre Productions	$6,075	1	n/a
Sod House Theater	$5,642	1	6%
Uncharted Theater Company LLC	$5,600	1	n/a
Mad Munchkin Laura Leffler McCa	$5,591	1	n/a
Sigma's Bookshelf	$5,570	1	n/a
Isabel Nelson	$5,507	1	n/a
Charles Gorczynski	$5,460	1	n/a
Maggie Bergeron and Co	$5,287	1	n/a
We Are All Connected	$5,021	1	n/a

Plus 112 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.

Springboard for the Arts supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 13.

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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.

Jerome Foundation IncMN16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jerome Foundation Inc · Minnesota Humanities Center · The McKnight Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Propel Nonprofits · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Springboard for the Arts

How much does Springboard for the Arts give?: Springboard for the Arts reported 90 itemized grants totaling $2,896,279, out of $3,674,429 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 77 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Springboard for the Arts fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (43%), Arts & Culture (33%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Springboard for the Arts's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Funny Asian Women Kollective ($544k), Cow Tipping Press ($490k), Rare Produtions LLC ($340k).
Does Springboard for the Arts fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Springboard for the Arts?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jerome Foundation Inc, Minnesota Humanities Center, The McKnight Foundation.
Where is Springboard for the Arts based?: Springboard for the Arts is based in MN.