Minnesota · Nonprofit
BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL INC
BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $94 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($94). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $94
- Net assets
- $-98872
What Big Island Rendezvous & Festival Inc does
Mission
1800's fur trading camp reenactment held in october with crafts & trades, music, games and food of the time. Educate public about life of early settlers of the area. First two days of festival exclusively for area school students. Total attendence approximately 11,000.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
In addition to part one summary. Total attendence includes approximately 2,000 school students during education days (first two days of festival). Total attendence is an estimate due to family passes sold which can be used for an entire family instead of purchasing indiviudal admission tickets. The organization receives a substantial amount of donated services from volunteers, which are used mainly during the time leading up to the event and the event itself (first weekend in october). Some donated time is used through out the year. This annual event is held the first full weekend in october. Event is held at a local city park that has minimal parking area so attendees are bussed in from local county fairgrounds where they park.
$83,522 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $83,522.
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 2023 to 2024, from $15k to $5k (−66%).
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: 2021 64% · 2023 21% · 2024 18% · 2025 18% · 2026 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 10 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
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7 → $40.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94 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
BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL INC has grown faster than half of the 435 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL INC
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL INC: 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 BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL INC?
- BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $94 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($94). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $94 in grants to BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $94 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG ISLAND RENDEZVOUS & FESTIVAL INC 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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