Minnesota · Nonprofit
AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL
AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,187,954 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($2,222,393). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What American Craft Council does
Mission
The American Craft Council fosters livelihoods and ways of living grounded in the artful work of the human hand, creating a more joyful, humane, and regenerative world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The American Craft Council produces a series of marketplace events, including our flagship event, american craft made baltimore. In 2025, nearly 16,000 tickets were purchased for the event that hosted over 375 artists selling their craft. Acc also produces american craft fest st. Paul, which includes a smaller marketplace component consisting of approximately 60 early-career artists, as well as a wide variety of craft-based demonstrations, hands-on-activities, and locally crafted food and drink. Acc marketplaces are open to artists from across the country creating work that reflects the diversity of contemporary craft.
$998,320 spentof which $13,500 as grants$727,912 earned by the program39% of program spendingThroughout fy 2025, acc continued to publish american craft as a quarterly magazine celebrating the modern makers who shape the world around us. With an estimated 70,000 readers per print issue and over 100,000 unique readers, american craft provided a large audience and wide visibility for the voice and talents of american craft artists. Costs to publish american craft were partly covered by membership fees, advertising sales, and grants from foundations. In early fy 2026, responding to widespread trends in publishing and signaling a new era of access and connection, acc announced a shift to exclusively digital publishing to meet readers where they are online. This change in publishing approach, accompanied by related editorial changes, are designed to leverage and increase digital content views (averaging 2,500 weekly in fy 2025) and the reach of acc's biweekly newsletter (with a circulation of 60,000 in fy 2025).
$786,744 spent$11,360 earned by the program31% of program spendingMembership in the American Craft Council reached nearly 9,400 people in fy 2025. Members received the quarterly magazine, american craft, discounted tickets to acc events, and other intangible benefits.
$367,450 spent$377,205 earned by the program15% of program spendingOther programs and events: craft labs-the craft lab workshop series is a free, virtual, professional development program offered exclusively for acc members. Conversations are also recorded and made available to members to view at their convenience. From engaging conversations featuring movers and shakers in the craft industry to presentations on practical skills and methods, acc's craft lab workshop series offers educational programming for practicing artists at every career stage. Learn directly from experts on topics as wide-ranging as photography, financial tools, and marketing for artists. Forums -as a free, public offering, american craft forums feature online discussions with artists, writers, curators, community organizers, and more diverse voices working together to move the craft field forward. Object stories-held in cities across the united states, object stories are live storytelling events that bring together community members to tell stories about handmade objects that hold deep meaning for them. With an emcee to keep the event moving, five to seven storytellers bring handcrafted contemporary or historical objects onstage and tell a short story about their personal…
$199,355 spentof which $13,500 as grants8% of program spendingThe acc library & archives' 20,000 print publications, 4,000 artist files, four archival collections, and robust digital collection provided a wealth of resources for craft historians, students, writers, curators, collectors and artists from across the globe. In fy 2025, the library website received over 252,200 page views from nearly 18,000 web visitors. Acc's library & archives and related programs have been generously supported by contributions from individuals, foundations, and government funders. In fy 2025, acc announced that it would seek a partner to make the library and archives more accessible to the public while sustaining excellent stewardship practices. Following a thorough, thoughtful, and transparent process, acc selected the center for craft in asheville, north carolina as the new home of the acc library and archives. The selection was celebrated in a public announcement in early fy 2026.
$181,869 spent7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,533,738.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.9M to $5.7M (−17%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 18% · 2022 7% · 2023 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Andrea Specht
Executive director
Board chair
Preeti Gopinath
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $142k → $758k.
9 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 37% · 2019 36% · 2020 32% · 2021 41% · 2022 86% · 2023 90% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $646k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $199k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$102k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$50k
- National Endowment for the Arts$47k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL?
- AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,187,954 to it, the largest being WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($2,222,393). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $3,187,954 in grants to AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL?
- WINDGATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,222,393 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN CRAFT COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing