Minnesota · Nonprofit
BALLET MINNESOTA
BALLET MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,386 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($32,851). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $145k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Ballet Minnesota does
Mission
Ballet Minnesota's mission is to enrich the lives by creating and sharing the artistry in dance through public presentations and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The classic nutcracker ballet: a holiday tradition for all ages, the 36th nutcracker staged four performances at the o'shaughnessy auditorium at saint catherine's university. The production held one school and community group performance, where there were 1,400 attendees from a variety of schools and community groups from all over the twin cities metro area. 3,000 patrons attended three public performances. The cast included over 100 dancers ages four to adult, including four Ballet Minnesota company dancers, two special guests performing the roles of the sugar plum fairy and cavalier, and dancers from classical ballet academy, our official school. The nutcracker gives young students the opportunity to engage with professional artists and learn directly from them. Our nutcracker continues to become an annual family tradition for thousands of families in our community. In addition, Ballet Minnesota performed excerpts of the nutcracker at the minneapolis/st. Paul international airport one day over thanksgiving weekend, entertaining passengers as they navigated the terminal between flights.
$86,421 spent$90,512 earned by the program83% of program spendingMinnesota dance festival: the 36th annual festival with four performances over two days at the e.m. Pearson theatre at concordia university in st. Paul. This event celebrates dancers, artists, musicians, choreographers, directors, set and costume designers from a wide variety of dance organizations for the purpose of sharing ideas, techniques, creative hopes, and ambitions. This year's production featured excerpts from coppelia plus andrew rists's at the museum with Ballet Minnesota company dancers along with students from classical ballet academy. Guest performers included kala vandanam, caam chinese dance theater, jim lieberthal, cheremosh ukrainian dance ensemble, crash dance, o' shea irish dance, keane sense of rythmn, beatrice skulley & olive charais, and wattanak dance troupe.
$17,216 spent$13,975 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $103,637.
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 2020 to 2021, from $18k to $70k (+285%).
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: 2019 10% · 2020 7% · 2021 80% · 2022 20% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of BALLET MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $12k.
From the IRS filings of BALLET MINNESOTA’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
BALLET MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 BALLET MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 63% · 2022 57% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
56% of BALLET MINNESOTA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
BALLET MINNESOTA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BALLET MINNESOTA
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BALLET MINNESOTA: 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 BALLET MINNESOTA?
- BALLET MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,386 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($32,851). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BALLET MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $75,386 in grants to BALLET MINNESOTA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BALLET MINNESOTA?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $32,851 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BALLET MINNESOTA 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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