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BAVARIAN BLAST

BAVARIAN BLAST (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being PRAIRIE LAKES REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$165k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$41k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Bavarian Blast does

Mission

To promote and preserve new ulm's german heritage through an annual celebrtaion showcasing german music and culture.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. City "german festival" is held each year in july to promote and perpetuate new ulm's german heritage.

    $197,843 spent$145,146 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $197,843.

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 ($120k) Expenses 100 ($109k) Net assets 100 ($12k)2018 Revenue 131 ($158k) Expenses 115 ($126k) Net assets 370 ($44k)2019 Revenue 120 ($145k) Expenses 128 ($140k) Net assets 415 ($49k)2020 Revenue 3 ($3k) Expenses 8 ($9k) Net assets 372 ($44k)2021 Revenue 136 ($164k) Expenses 126 ($137k) Net assets 601 ($71k)2022 Revenue 126 ($152k) Expenses 147 ($160k) Net assets 535 ($63k)2023 Revenue 158 ($190k) Expenses 164 ($179k) Net assets 631 ($74k)2024 Revenue 175 ($211k) Expenses 193 ($210k) Net assets 639 ($75k)2025 Revenue 137 ($165k) Expenses 183 ($200k) Net assets 344 ($41k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (137)Expenses (183)Net assets (344)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 2024 to 2025, from $75k to $41k (−46%).

$12k
$44k
$49k
$44k
$71k
$63k
$74k
$75k
$41k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

11% of BAVARIAN BLAST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’17
$32k
’18
$5k
’19
−$5k
’20
$27k
’21
−$8k
’22
$11k
’23
$883
’24
−$35k
’25
2.4
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.

202320242025
Listed131212
Joined·+1+0
No longer listed·20
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of BAVARIAN BLAST’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.

Where its funders are

100% of BAVARIAN BLAST's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BAVARIAN BLAST's revenue grew 37% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like BAVARIAN BLAST

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAVARIAN BLAST: 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 BAVARIAN BLAST?
BAVARIAN BLAST (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being PRAIRIE LAKES REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BAVARIAN BLAST have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,000 in grants to BAVARIAN BLAST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BAVARIAN BLAST?
PRAIRIE LAKES REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BAVARIAN BLAST 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 1 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