Minnesota · Nonprofit
CAFESJIAN ART TRUST
CAFESJIAN ART TRUST (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,737,000 to it, the largest being CAFESJIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($8,637,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $81M
What Cafesjian Art Trust does
Programs
The Cafesjian Art Trust houses a modern and contemporary art collection like no other. The museum features 5000 square feet of exhibition space, including a library that is available for research. The Cafesjian Art Trust collection is a 3,000+ piece assembly of breathtaking works including studio glass by international artists such as dale chihuly, mary anne 'toots' zynsky, stanislav libensk and jaroslava brychtov, and modern and contemporary artwork by arshile gorky, victor vasarely, georges braque and many other world-renowned artists.the Cafesjian Art Trust was established by the family of gerard cafesjian to share his collection of contemporary and modern art with the public. Our mission is to provide an aesthetic and educational experience through our collection for the benefit of the public. The museums is free and open to the public for guided tours.
$1,555,484 spentCosts to properly store and maintain art that will eventually be displayed in the museum as it rotates exhibitions.
$145,812 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $40M to $63M (+57%).
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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of CAFESJIAN ART TRUST’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
CAFESJIAN ART TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
“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
100% of CAFESJIAN ART TRUST's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
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
CAFESJIAN ART TRUST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CAFESJIAN ART TRUST
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAFESJIAN ART TRUST: 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 CAFESJIAN ART TRUST?
- CAFESJIAN ART TRUST (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,737,000 to it, the largest being CAFESJIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($8,637,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAFESJIAN ART TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $13,737,000 in grants to CAFESJIAN ART TRUST.
- Who is the largest funder of CAFESJIAN ART TRUST?
- CAFESJIAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,637,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAFESJIAN ART TRUST 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 2018–2025), 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