· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| OLOLADE GBADAMOSI | $46,500 |
| PICTURE BOOK PARADE | $46,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
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.
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…
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.
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Springboard for the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Springboard for the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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