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· 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.
$3.1M
Granted FY2024
72
Grants
2
Communities
$106k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
fiscal agentagent activity
2020
fiscal activityfiscal agentagent activity
2021
fiscal activityfiscal agentagent activity
2022
fiscal activityfiscal agentagent activity
2023
rural regeneratorregenerator artistartist fellowshipfiscal agentagent activity
2024
fiscal agentagent activity
2025
fiscal regrantingrural urbanurban solidaritysolidarity partnerresilienceart
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 72 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $141k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k9 grants · $719k
$18,101
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
- EMERGING CURATORS INSTITUTE$105,775
- COW TIPPING PRESS$100,032
- THEATRE 55$94,856
- RARE PRODUCTIONS$87,700
- TRU RUTS$81,240
- PRAXIS PHOTO ARTS CENTER$72,360
- GO KO GO LLC$60,867
- DEBORAH RAMOS$59,815
- VALERIE OLIVEIRO$56,000
- FUNNY ASIAN WOMEN KOLLECTIVE$49,024
- LESLIE PARKER DANCE PROJECT$45,686
- MILLION ARTIST MOVEMENT$44,175
- GRACE MINNESOTA$40,000
- VOICES OF HOPE LLC$37,200
- TANGIBLE COLLECTIVE LLC$37,051
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.0M · 97 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else
97 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
97
111
Total granted
$6.0M
$1.6M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+7%
+42%
Still filing today
6%
4%
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 & CultureHuman ServicesScience & TechEducationOther
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
- NSNATIVE SKYWATCHERS3× · 2019–2024 · $78k · revenue +7% · 33% of their budget
- OTOPERATUNITY THEATRE2× · 2019–2020 · $53k · revenue +151% · 78% of their budget
- ICInternational Cello Institute2× · 2018–2019 · $37k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- PIPublic Interest Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $113k
- BWBLACK WOMEN SPEAKone grant, 2021 · $79k
- BBUILDone grant, 2022 · $63k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Strike Theater Inc
Strike Theater is dedicated to building a community for original creative works in the Twin Cities.
Arts & Culture
2
Annex Theatre
The performance of live performance to the general public. Annex Theatre is a democratic collective of theatre artists dedicated to creating bold new work in an environment of improbability, resourcefulness, and risk.
Arts & Culture
3
Theatre Three Collaborative Inc
Cultural and educational performances
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4
The Story Theatre
The Story Theatre will pose questions, rather than provide answers. We develop and produce new work that is whimsical, melancholic, mythic in vision, and intimate in scale. We are run by a governing artistic ensemble, who ensures our work…
Arts & Culture
5
Play Inc Arts
From the inherent need in each of us to create and play, Play Inc. Arts strives to provide a new and different arts outlet for the communities of Cambridge, Isanti, and the surrounding area.
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6
An Opera Theatre
To produce socially relevant works in order to break down the barriers of the classical art form and bring communities together.
Arts & Culture
7
Baltimore Theatre Project
Artistic Programs
Arts & Culture
8
Ko Theater Works Inc
KO THEATER WORKS, INC. is dedicated to fostering innovative artistic collaborations in an atmosphere conducive to deep collaboration. We present and also create and original pieces that surprise, provoke and inspire our community in the…
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9
Nimbus Theatre
Presenting experimental theater.
Arts & Culture
10
Fly North Theatricals
Produce works of musical theatre for community artistic benefit and provide education through performance with an emphasis on financial accessibility
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11
North Star Theater Company
Arts & Culture
12
The Factory Theater Company
The Factory Theater delivers unexpected, unapologetic theatrical experiences through original works forged and assembled by our shameless ensemble.
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prime Productions and the most unlike its peers is Native Skywatchers Incorporated. 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 8 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 25% of your grantees by number, and just 63% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
1%2/162
the rest of the field
12%
1,865/15,378
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.
05the grantee network
22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
10/22
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$7,440,260Arts & Culture$457,991Science & Tech$78,229Human Services$43,505Education$36,945
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.
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.
Minnesota Humanities CenterMN12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Minnesota Humanities Center · Propel Nonprofits · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 organisation SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OPERATUNITY THEATRE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.5× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 832963065 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on OPERATUNITY THEATRE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 78% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Springboard for the Arts?
Find your warmest path to Springboard for the Arts through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines