Minnesota · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC
CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,914 to it, the largest being THE JAMES M STANTON FOUNDATION ($118,750). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $642k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $343k
- Net assets
- $552k
What Center for Irish Music does
Mission
To offer inspiration and instruction in traditional irish music in the greater twin cities (st. Paul/minneapolis) community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fy24, the Center for Irish Music served over 435 students, ages 6 months to 82 years, with weekly private lessons, group classes, and ensembles on 16 instruments on both virtual and in-person platforms. In june 2024, cim presented the 16th annual minnesota irish music weekend (mim), a unique festival that pairs world-class traditional irish musicians and teachers with learners of all ages for a weekend of workshops, lectures, sessions, and concerts. In june 2022, the organization launched a capital campaign to fund a leasehold improvement project. The project was completed in june 2024.
$467,770 spentof which $3,225 as grants$340,808 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $467,770.
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 $495k to $975k (+97%).
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 10% · 2018 9% · 2019 9% · 2020 5% · 2021 12% · 2022 10% · 2023 7% · 2024 20% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $5k → $63k.
2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC’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
CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 63% · 2019 40% · 2020 38% · 2021 41% · 2022 53% · 2023 38% — 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
80% of CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
72% of CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- 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.
Organizations like CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC
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
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 CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC: 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 CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC?
- CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,914 to it, the largest being THE JAMES M STANTON FOUNDATION ($118,750). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $342,914 in grants to CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC?
- THE JAMES M STANTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $118,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR IRISH MUSIC 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 13 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