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CAPONI ART PARK

CAPONI ART PARK (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $322,991 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($152,516). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$162k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$323k
Net assets
$86k
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Caponi Art Park does

Mission

To make art accessible to people of all ages & backgrounds. This is accomplished by providing a cultural & educational center where people come together with art & nature to restore, nurture & maintain the basic unity of the human spirit.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. ART PARK EXPERIENCE: In 2023, more than 12,000 people visited the art park, individually or in small family groups. Visitors explored the miles of walking paths in the sculptured landscape of rock walls & shaped earth, discovering conventional sculptures along the way. This welcoming, natural environment is the backdrop that makes the art park's programs accessible & engaging. Caponi Art Park also received donated services valued at approximately $35,000 & donated facilities valued at approximately $9,600.

    $66,721 spent
    54% of program spending
  2. HOSTED ARTIST PERFORMANCES: In 2023, the Minnesota Sinfonia presented a family pops concert, Theatre 55 gave six performances of Chorus Line, & the Picnic Truck Opera presented a modern version of Romeo and Juliet.

    $15,068 spent
    12% of program spending
  3. EDUCATIONAL TOURS & WORKSHOPS: In 2023, the art park offered 120 tours & workshops for over 2,700 people. Participants ranged in age from toddlers to school age to seniors. Through a partnership with Ultimate Sustainability, an organization serving adults with intellectual disabilities, the art park provided bi-weekly workshops for 30 participants. In 2023, the park expanded its educational programs by bringing its workshops off-site to Community Education Departments in 12 school districts throughout the Twin Cities. Participation in the Hot Art! workshops & hot metal pour continued to grow with 90 people creating cast iron relief tiles at the event.

    $33,528 spent
    27% of program spending
  4. WODAKOTA WALK: Caponi Art Park invited artist Marlena Myles (Spirit Lake Dakota) to create a 5-stop permanent augmented reality installation that weaves Dakota stories into the landscape of the park. The park held a dedication event to celebrate the new work which featured performances of traditional Native drumming & dance, spoken word & rap, & an artist market.

    $7,926 spent
    6% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $123,243.

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 ($108k) Expenses 100 ($128k) Net assets 100 ($35k)2018 Revenue 134 ($145k) Expenses 110 ($141k) Net assets 111 ($39k)2019 Revenue 164 ($177k) Expenses 121 ($155k) Net assets 174 ($61k)2020 Revenue 138 ($149k) Expenses 101 ($129k) Net assets 231 ($81k)2021 Revenue 185 ($200k) Expenses 127 ($163k) Net assets 336 ($118k)2022 Revenue 100 ($108k) Expenses 131 ($167k) Net assets 168 ($59k)2023 Revenue 147 ($159k) Expenses 106 ($135k) Net assets 249 ($87k)2024 Revenue 150 ($162k) Expenses 127 ($163k) Net assets 246 ($86k)
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Revenue (150)Expenses (127)Net assets (246)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 2021 to 2022, from $127k to $71k (−44%).

$49k
$50k
$76k
$85k
$127k
$71k
$89k
$99k
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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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 30% · 2018 36% · 2019 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

66% of CAPONI ART PARK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$20k
’17
$4k
’18
$22k
’19
$20k
’20
$37k
’21
−$59k
’22
$23k
’23
−$933
’24
4.9
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.

201720182019
Listed9912
Joined·+5+3
No longer listed·50
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $40k → $37k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 CAPONI ART PARK’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

CAPONI ART PARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

93% 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 CAPONI ART PARK.

47%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 62% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 57% · 2022 56% · 2023 54% — broadly stable.

“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

40% of CAPONI ART PARK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

96% of CAPONI ART PARK's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAPONI ART PARK's revenue grew 50% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding CAPONI ART PARK receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.

Federal$10k
grants $10kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$10k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAPONI ART PARK: 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 CAPONI ART PARK?
CAPONI ART PARK (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $322,991 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($152,516). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAPONI ART PARK have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $322,991 in grants to CAPONI ART PARK, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAPONI ART PARK?
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $152,516 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAPONI ART PARK 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 8 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