Minnesota · Nonprofit
Bloomington Theatre and Art Center
Bloomington Theatre and Art Center (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,924 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($95,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $252k
- Net assets
- $-573585
What Bloomington Theatre and Art Center does
Mission
In pursuit of artistic excellence, we engage our region's most talented artists in work that welcomes and develops audiences and opens hearts and minds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Theater: Produced multiple productions throughout the year in two theaters in the Bloomington Center for the Arts
$669,441 spent$751,510 earned by the program55% of program spendingArts Education: Provided classes and workshops throughout the year for children and adults, professional development opportunities for visual and performing artists, and outreach for youth, seniors, persons with disabilities, and other worthy candidates
$343,644 spent$60,347 earned by the program28% of program spendingVisual Arts and Creative Placemaking: Hosted exhibits of artwork of emerging and established artists from five states in two galleries in the Bloomington Center for the Arts. Additionally, the Organization partnered with the City of Bloomington and others to transform Bloomington's South Loop area into a vibrant and distinctive neighborhood.
$210,982 spent$217,237 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,224,067.
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 $571k to $275k (−52%).
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: 2017 32% · 2018 18% · 2020 24% · 2021 62% · 2022 56% · 2023 30% · 2024 10% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of Bloomington Theatre and Art Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% 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.
Chief executive
Kelli Foster Warder
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $39k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Bloomington Theatre and Art Center’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
Bloomington Theatre and Art Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 Bloomington Theatre and Art Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 37% · 2020 34% · 2021 50% · 2022 63% · 2023 64% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of Bloomington Theatre and Art Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
91% of Bloomington Theatre and Art Center's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
Bloomington Theatre and Art Center's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Bloomington Theatre and Art Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $98k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
- Department of the Interior$38k
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.
Organizations like Bloomington Theatre and Art Center
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 Bloomington Theatre and Art Center: 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 Bloomington Theatre and Art Center?
- Bloomington Theatre and Art Center (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $251,924 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($95,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bloomington Theatre and Art Center have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $251,924 in grants to Bloomington Theatre and Art Center, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bloomington Theatre and Art Center?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bloomington Theatre and Art Center 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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