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ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC

ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,004,870 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,078,400). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$4.0M
Net assets
$15M
10/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%
01What it does

What Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Inc does

Mission

Anderson center is a rare, rural oasis, a place that celebrates the imagination and supports the development of new arts and ideas through residencies, studies, and public engagement.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Tower view restores and preserves the buildings and grounds of the historic tower view estate.

    $444,766 spent$162,958 earned by the program
    58% of program spending
  2. Residency program provides residencies of one to four weeks duration to enable artists, writers,and scholars to advance or complete work in progress and offers below-market-rate studio spaces to local artists and arts educators in the red wing, mn area.

    $218,119 spent$17,582 earned by the program
    28% of program spending
  3. Outreach program participates in the planning and presenting of collaborative public programs with other cultural entities in red wing, mn, and elsewhere.

    $111,705 spent$15,992 earned by the program
    14% of program spending
  4. Sculpture garden outdoor exhibition of sculptures in the center's reforestation project to promote public art.

    $-1,649 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $772,941.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($724k) Expenses 100 ($583k) Net assets 100 ($6.2M)2018 Revenue 94 ($684k) Expenses 104 ($605k) Net assets 107 ($6.7M)2019 Revenue 181 ($1.3M) Expenses 115 ($671k) Net assets 121 ($7.6M)2020 Revenue 140 ($1.0M) Expenses 120 ($701k) Net assets 138 ($8.6M)2021 Revenue 222 ($1.6M) Expenses 140 ($818k) Net assets 179 ($11M)2022 Revenue 237 ($1.7M) Expenses 176 ($1.0M) Net assets 180 ($11M)2023 Revenue 132 ($953k) Expenses 169 ($985k) Net assets 181 ($11M)2024 Revenue 269 ($2.0M) Expenses 167 ($973k) Net assets 209 ($13M)2025 Revenue 294 ($2.1M) Expenses 164 ($955k) Net assets 238 ($15M)
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Revenue (294)Expenses (164)Net assets (238)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $8.8M to $11M (+31%).

$6.4M
$6.7M
$7.6M
$8.8M
$11M
$12M
$11M
$13M
$15M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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2020
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2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2022 3% · 2023 0% · 2024 6% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$141k
’17
$78k
’18
$639k
’19
$313k
’20
$787k
’21
$695k
’22
−$32k
’23
$979k
’24
$1.2M
’25
8.2
months of
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.

Board chair

Karen Mueller

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed111212131312121211
Joined·+6+1+2+1+0+0+1+5
No longer listed·51111016
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $514k → $246k.

5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

89% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC.

52%
largest funder
77%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 71% · 2019 66% · 2020 83% · 2021 63% · 2022 82% · 2023 49% — 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

55% of ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

61% of ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.6M that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Minnesota funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin55% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $249k on record.

Federal$249k
grants $249kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$149k
  • National Endowment for the Arts$100k

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 13%Fundraising 6%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

39%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC?
ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,004,870 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($2,078,400). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $4,004,870 in grants to ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,078,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC find more funders?
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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 18 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