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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.

$6.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$42M
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,053,691
Median grant
1
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts$3,322,230
The Minnesota Opera$2,053,691
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra$864,153
The Schubert Club$303,424
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%The Minnesota Opera: $2.1M → 11%Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: $680k → 14%The Minnesota Opera: $1.7M → 11%Ordway Center for Performing Arts: $7.6M → 14%The Minnesota Opera: $1.4M → 11%Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: $4.3M → 14%The Minnesota Opera: $1.4M → 11%Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: $3.6M → 14%The Minnesota Opera: $652k → 11%Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: $3.3M → 14%The Minnesota Opera: $562k → 11%Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: $2.7M → 14%The Minnesota Opera: $533k → 11%Ordway Center for Performing Arts: $1.2M → 14%The Minnesota Opera: $490k → 11%Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: $1.1M → 14%The Minnesota Opera: $387k → 11%The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra: $1.1M → 14%The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra: $1.0M → 14%The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra: $864k → 14%Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: $837k → 14%The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra: $836k → 14%The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra: $463k → 14%The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra: $456k → 14%The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra: $367k → 14%The Saint Paul Chamber Orchesta: $329k → 14%The Schubert Club: $303k → 14%The Schubert Club: $286k → 14%The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra: $224k → 14%The Schubert Club: $210k → 14%The Schubert Club: $203k → 14%The Schubert Club: $144k → 14%The Schubert Club: $84k → 14%The Schubert Club: $83k → 14%The Schubert Club: $77k → 14%The Schubert Club: $22k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
04the grantee network

4 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
4/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $25,405,746 · Arts & CultureORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSThe Minnesota Opera: $9,248,967 · Arts & CultureThe Minnesota OperaThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $5,635,003 · Arts & CultureThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra SocietySCHUBERT CLUB THE: $1,411,412 · Arts & Culture
Arts & Culture$41,701,128

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $25,405,746 over 9y, 33% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera: $9,248,967 over 9y, 20% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society: $5,635,003 over 9y, 11% of budgetSCHUBERT CLUB THE: $1,411,412 over 9y, 8.4% of budget
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.

  • Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds The Minnesota Opera ↗
  • Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
  • Who funds SCHUBERT CLUB THE ↗

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.

Dellwood Foundation I…William Boss Foundati…The Dorsey & Whitney …Hardenbergh FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Ibm International Fou…Mightycause Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…
Dellwood Foundation IncMN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Arts Partnership funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arts Partnership. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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