· 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.
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 $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $505k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGACY CHORALE | $40,000 |
| WADENA MADHATTERS COMMUNITY THEATRE | $37,500 |
| CENTRAL LAKES COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $36,000 |
| CROSSING ARTS ALLIANCE | $34,995 |
| WALKER BAY THEATER | $33,050 |
| GREAT RIVER ARTS ASSOCIATION | $31,842 |
| LAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL | $30,000 |
| ST FRANCIS MUSIC CENTER | $30,000 |
| HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $30,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | $28,950 |
| LONG PRAIRIE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| NORTHWOODS ARTS COUNCIL | $19,406 |
| PEQUOT LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOL | $18,200 |
| LAMPLIGHTER COMMUNITY THEATRE | $15,000 |
| CASS LAKE BENA SCHOOLS | $14,965 |
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 (FY23–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL9× · 2017–2025 · $272k · revenue +207%
- HSHEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA9× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +73% · 40% of their budget
- CLCENTRAL LAKES COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $193k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- M5MISC 5000 OR LESSone grant, 2017 · $91k
- OWOLD WADENA SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SFSUSTAINABLE FARMING ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +41%
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.
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How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 51 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
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.
- Who funds LAKES AREA MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL LAKES COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSING ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LEGACY CHORALE OF GREATER MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds STAPLES AREA MEN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STAGE NORTH THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WADENA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK MILLS ARTS RETREAT ↗
- Who funds PINE RIVER AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPROUT MN ↗
- Who funds ACTORS REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FARMING ASSOCIATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds LEECH LAKE AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds THE BRAINERD BAXTER YOUTH CENTER ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Five Wings Arts Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Five Wings Arts Council. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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