· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 90 grants below total $2,896,279 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,674,429 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $778,150 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 $10k23 grants · $179k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $288k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUNNY ASIAN WOMEN KOLLECTIVE | $287,798 |
| COW TIPPING PRESS | $247,141 |
| QUEER VOICES MINNESOTA | $185,884 |
| RARE PRODUTIONS LLC | $153,500 |
| DEBORAH RAMOS | $90,940 |
| REASONS FOR MOVING | $65,399 |
| TRILINGUA CINEMA | $64,197 |
| GO KO GO LLC | $63,728 |
| YEARLY EMERGING PRACTICES | $62,925 |
| QUEER GAZE LLC | $56,161 |
| LESLIE PARKER DANCE PROJECT | $53,492 |
| MAIA MAIDEN PRODUCTIONS | $52,029 |
| VALERIE OLIVEIRO | $52,000 |
| PICTURE BOOK PARADE | $46,500 |
| OLOLADE GBADAMOSI | $46,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
129 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 36 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $938k 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
- NSNATIVE SKYWATCHERS INCORPORATED5× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +7% · 33% of their budget
- TDTHE DIAL GROUP INC3× · 2017–2019 · $91k · revenue +70%
- MHMONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP2× · 2019–2020 · $66k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- TTTRADEMARK THEATERgraduated2× · 2017–2019 · $97k · revenue +38% · 62% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $79k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2017–2019 · $75k
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.
Cultural and educational performances
Artibus is dedicated to strengthening community through the experience of live performance. We are a hub in Denver for intimate, original performances that explore important social themes and for building community through shared space,…
Strike Theater is dedicated to building a community for original creative works in the Twin Cities.
The Ghost Road Company develops original performance pieces employing Ensemble-Devising and collaborative creation techniques creating experimental theatrical works that are highly physical visceral and visual The companys work emphasizes…
To produce socially relevant works in order to break down the barriers of the classical art form and bring communities together.
Artistic Programs
Mirror Stage uses the power of story and art to challenge assumptions, bias and prejudice, increasing equity and inclusion, while encouraging more thoughtful reflection on today's issues.
Constella Arts produces performances, educational presentations and digital content, along the way changing how people perceive classical music and the performing arts.
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.
Foster professional development of creative artists
We are a theatre company. We provide opportunities for local theatre artists and high quality productions for the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rosy Simas Danse Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fools Productions. 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) — 23% of your grantees by number, and just 52% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 292 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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
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 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.
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.