Minnesota · Nonprofit
ART IS MY WEAPON
ART IS MY WEAPON (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,000 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($66,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $186k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Art Is My Weapon does
Mission
Art is My Weapon MN is a 501 C3 that aims to use art and creativity to spark social change.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Community Charity- We supported dozens of youth families directly affected by gun violence though covering emergen and other basic needs.
$4,815 spent13% of program spendingCommunity Outreach- We ve supported hundreds of youth through art as a way to address gun violence.
$21,700 spent58% of program spendingCommunity Engagement- We deliver programing to hundreds of students in Minneapolis Public Schools and other youth-serving organizations.
$11,093 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $37,608.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $8k to $7k (−20%).
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.
25% of ART IS MY WEAPON’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $40k → $16k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 ART IS MY WEAPON’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
ART IS MY WEAPON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 ART IS MY WEAPON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 63% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
87% of ART IS MY WEAPON'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ART IS MY WEAPON has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ART IS MY WEAPON
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ART IS MY WEAPON: 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 ART IS MY WEAPON?
- ART IS MY WEAPON (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,000 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($66,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ART IS MY WEAPON have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $76,000 in grants to ART IS MY WEAPON, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ART IS MY WEAPON?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $66,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ART IS MY WEAPON 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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