Minnesota · Nonprofit
COMPAS INC
COMPAS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,248,065 to it, the largest being HUGH J ANDERSEN FOUNDATION ($337,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Compas Inc does
Mission
Compas delivers creative experiences that unleash the potential within all of us.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Creative community compas delivers creative experiences to 44,000 people annually that span a wide range of performing, visual, literary, digital, and musical disciplines. The 150+ teaching artists and ensembles who make up our roster deliver in-person and virtual community programs in minnesota (shelters, libraries, youth centers, nonprofit organizations that center people with disabilities and/or mental health challenges, justice programs, older adult centers, etc.). Teaching artists represent more than 40 different cultural and racial backgrounds and bring years of experience that ignite participants' creativity, whether programs are workshops, performances, or longer residencies. No matter the length of the program, compas ensures that each participant fully experiences the art form.
$844,375 spent$473,513 earned by the program60% of program spendingCreative classroom: more than 22,000 students from kindergarten through 21 years of age are offered the opportunity to work directly with a professionally trained compas teaching artist to learn an art form that is selected by educators and students to best meet their needs. The range in art formsincludes performing, visual, literary, digital, and musical disciplines and is often connected to state curriculum guidelines. Compas's teaching artists work within educational settings (traditional and non-traditional), out-of-school-time programs and summer school programs. Students develop their own artmaking abilities while participating in making an original piece of art in their school setting. This process helps participants advance their critical thinking abilities.
$553,950 spent$344,410 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,398,325.
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 2024 to 2025, from $878k to $1.4M (+55%).
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 20% · 2018 16% · 2019 15% · 2020 20% · 2021 21% · 2022 11% · 2023 8% · 2024 11% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of COMPAS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Dawne Brown White
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $83k → $376k.
12 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 COMPAS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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
COMPAS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
45% 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 COMPAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 38% · 2019 27% · 2020 27% · 2021 23% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% — 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
41% of COMPAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
84% of COMPAS INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $585k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
COMPAS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COMPAS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $61k on record — $60k federal, $801 state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $801
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 COMPAS INC
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 COMPAS INC: 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 COMPAS INC?
- COMPAS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,248,065 to it, the largest being HUGH J ANDERSEN FOUNDATION ($337,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMPAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $2,248,065 in grants to COMPAS INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMPAS INC?
- HUGH J ANDERSEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $337,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMPAS INC 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 52 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing