Minnesota · Nonprofit
CREATIVE MN
CREATIVE MN (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $116k
What Creative Mn does
Mission
The Creative Mn project is a long-term endeavor to collect and report data on the creative sector for on-going analysis, education and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In collaboration with many partners, the Creative Mn program goals are to create solid, hard data about the minnesota arts sector and to share the data and stories collected to promote and support minnesota's creative economy. Creative Mn collects data in order to understand and disseminate information about minnesota's cultural field and to improve understanding of arts importance to our quality of life and economy.
$20,000 spent26% of program spendingMultiple regional tours of the state of arts in minnesota with accompanying community outreach and media press were successfully completed in 2024. Participants included creative workers, funders, elected officials and press.
$41,750 spent55% of program spendingIn partnership with minnesota citizens for the arts, arts and civic organizations, and individual arts advocates across the state, the Creative Mn past reports and updated data are in continuous use to make the economic case that on-going community support for the arts (from multiple sources both public and private) are a good roi investment.
$14,147 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $75,897.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $74k to $116k (+58%).
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.
76% of CREATIVE MN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
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 CREATIVE MN’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.
Where its funders are
100% of CREATIVE MN'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
CREATIVE MN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Organizations like CREATIVE MN
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CREATIVE MN: 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 CREATIVE MN?
- CREATIVE MN (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $200,000 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE MN have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $200,000 in grants to CREATIVE MN, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE MN?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE MN 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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