Minnesota · Public charity
The Five Wings Arts Council
THE FIVE WINGS ARTS COUNCIL encourages and promotes arts creation, appreciation, and education through grant programs and technical assistance to enhance the quality of life for minnesota residents in cass, crow wing, morrison, todd, and wadena counties.
- $657k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $535k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $49k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Five Wings Arts Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $535k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $472k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $434k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $308k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $319k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $243k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $328k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $216k | 6% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakes Area Music Festival | $271,700 | 9 | 8% |
| Great River Arts Association | $198,503 | 8 | 16% |
| Heartland Symphony Orchestra | $194,500 | 9 | 40% |
| Central Lakes College Foundation | $192,555 | 9 | 2% |
| The Crossing Arts Alliance | $185,200 | 9 | 13% |
| Greater Lakes Performing Arts | $172,350 | 9 | n/a |
| Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota | $172,000 | 9 | 45% |
| Madhatters Inc | $165,710 | 9 | n/a |
| Walker Bay Theater Inc | $156,789 | 9 | n/a |
| Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls | $139,469 | 9 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakes Area Music Festival | $271,700 | 9 | 8% |
| Great River Arts Association | $198,503 | 8 | 16% |
| Heartland Symphony Orchestra | $194,500 | 9 | 40% |
| Central Lakes College Foundation | $192,555 | 9 | 2% |
| The Crossing Arts Alliance | $185,200 | 9 | 13% |
| Greater Lakes Performing Arts | $172,350 | 9 | n/a |
| Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota | $172,000 | 9 | 45% |
| Madhatters Inc | $165,710 | 9 | n/a |
| Walker Bay Theater Inc | $156,789 | 9 | n/a |
| Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls | $139,469 | 9 | n/a |
| Long Prairie Chamber Orchestra | $129,750 | 9 | n/a |
| ISD 115 dba Cass Lake-Bena Public Schools | $109,671 | 8 | n/a |
| Staples Area Men's Chorus Inc | $106,700 | 9 | 59% |
| Staples Area Womens Chorus | $85,400 | 9 | n/a |
| Lamplighter Community Theatre Inc | $79,965 | 7 | n/a |
| Northwoods Arts Council Inc | $79,698 | 5 | n/a |
| North Central Economic Development Association Inc | $66,450 | 4 | 67% |
| Stage North Theatre Company Inc | $63,000 | 5 | 75% |
| Wadena County Historical Society | $57,850 | 5 | 16% |
| Fond Du Lac Tribal & Community College | $48,915 | 3 | n/a |
| New York Mills Arts Retreat | $46,000 | 4 | 30% |
| Pine River Area Foundation Inc | $40,200 | 5 | 6% |
| Wadena Concert Association | $36,900 | 3 | n/a |
| USA Community Chorus | $32,350 | 4 | n/a |
| Screen Porch Productions | $30,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Sprout Mn | $28,498 | 3 | 4% |
| City of Crosby | $25,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Actors Repertory Theatre | $25,000 | 2 | 18% |
| Staples-Motley Area Arts Council | $20,825 | 2 | n/a |
| Little Falls Theatre Company | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Old Wadena Society | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Partners for a Healthy Wadena Region | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Leech Lake Area Chamber of Commerce | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Colla Voce Choir Inc | $9,100 | 1 | n/a |
| The Brainerd Baxter Youth Center | $8,757 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Falls Summer Musical | $8,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Independent School District #2155 | $7,963 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Little Falls | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Leap Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 8% |
| Paul Bunyan Arboretum | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Region Five Development Commission | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Oasis Central Minnesota Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Lakewood Health System | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Little Falls Community High School | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Staples All Veterans and Community Park Association | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Minnesota Boys Choir | $6,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Wellness in the Woods Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Kitchigami Regional Library System | $5,633 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($97k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Five Wings Arts Council supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Communitygiving · Initiative Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · C K Blandin Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About The Five Wings Arts Council
- How much does The Five Wings Arts Council give?
- The Five Wings Arts Council reported 27 itemized grants totaling $535,208, out of $656,618 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Five Wings Arts Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Education (10%), Youth Development (4%).
- Who are The Five Wings Arts Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lakes Area Music Festival ($272k), Great River Arts Association ($199k), Heartland Symphony Orchestra ($195k).
- Does The Five Wings Arts Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Five Wings Arts Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communitygiving, Initiative Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is The Five Wings Arts Council based?
- The Five Wings Arts Council is based in MN.
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