Minnesota · Nonprofit
CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD
CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,759 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($600,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $616k
- Net assets
- $223k
What Central Minnesota Arts Board does
Mission
To promote and enhance the creation, performance, and appreciation of the arts in the minnesota counties of benton, sherburne, stearns and wright by providing grants and services to arts and community organizations, cities, schools and individuals. These grants and services support arts, arts access, arts education and cultural arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grants in support of nonprofit arts organizations, arts programming in regional schools, individual artist awards and trainings, youth scholarships to continue their arts educations, public art grants to individuals and cities
$1,220,092 spentof which $849,615 as grants$8,644 earned by the program92% of program spendingGeneral operating support grants for nonprofit arts organizations and individual artist awards
$112,965 spentof which $110,557 as grants8% of program spendingManagement of aroundthecloud, an online art information website.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,333,057.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $714k to $549k (−23%).
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 88% · 2018 86% · 2019 88% · 2020 89% · 2021 84% · 2022 87% · 2023 87% · 2024 90% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Gretchen Boulka
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $100k.
From the IRS filings of CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD’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
CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD: 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 CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD?
- CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $615,759 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($600,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $615,759 in grants to CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL MINNESOTA ARTS BOARD 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 2017–2025), 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