Minnesota · Public charity
The Arts Partnership
The Arts Partnership is organized for the benefit of and to carry out the purposes of ordway center for the performing arts (the ordway); the saint paul chamber orchestra society; the minnesota opera; and the schubert club. The Arts Partnership is a strategic alliance of four performing arts organizations that ensures equitable sharing…
- $6.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,053,691
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,322,230
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 4
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $41M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Arts Partnership funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $6.5M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $6.2M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $5.4M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $7.3M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $2.5M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $8.7M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $2.1M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $1.7M | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ordway Center for the Performing Arts | $25,405,746 | 9 | 33% |
| The Minnesota Opera | $9,248,967 | 9 | 20% |
| The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society | $5,635,003 | 9 | 11% |
| Schubert Club The | $1,411,412 | 9 | 8% |
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: Dellwood Foundation Inc · William Boss Foundation · The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About The Arts Partnership
- How much does The Arts Partnership give?
- The Arts Partnership reported 4 grants totaling $6,543,498 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Arts Partnership fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
- Who are The Arts Partnership's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts ($25M), The Minnesota Opera ($9.2M), The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ($5.6M).
- Does The Arts Partnership fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Arts Partnership?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dellwood Foundation Inc, William Boss Foundation, The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation.
- Where is The Arts Partnership based?
- The Arts Partnership is based in MN.
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