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DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS

DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being RUSSELL T LUND CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$58k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$87k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Dakota Center for the Arts does

Mission

The Dakota Center for the Arts is an Eagan community-based organization whose purpose is to develop, promote & encourage participation in & appreciation of the arts.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Eagan Art Festival: Ran the 29th Annual Eagan Art Festival at the end of June - a two day event hosting over 80 artists with entertainment, food & kids activities. Partnered with Eagan Art House to host a free Tye Die Event for the public during September Eagan Art Block. Gave out $3,800 in tuition assistance for underserved & people with financial challenges taking art classes at the Eagan Art House. Gave out two $1,500 scholarships ($3,000 total) for two high school seniors attending college for an arts related profession. The free events were attended by over 11,000 visitors of all ages.

    $49,256 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $49,256.

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 ($33k) Expenses 100 ($29k) Net assets 100 ($68k)2018 Revenue 72 ($24k) Expenses 122 ($36k) Net assets 83 ($56k)2019 Revenue 104 ($34k) Expenses 111 ($32k) Net assets 85 ($58k)2020 Revenue 132 ($44k) Expenses 114 ($33k) Net assets 100 ($68k)2021 Revenue 209 ($69k) Expenses 177 ($52k) Net assets 126 ($85k)2022 Revenue 215 ($71k) Expenses 231 ($68k) Net assets 131 ($88k)2023 Revenue 134 ($44k) Expenses 190 ($56k) Net assets 114 ($77k)2024 Revenue 175 ($58k) Expenses 162 ($47k) Net assets 129 ($87k)
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Revenue (175)Expenses (162)Net assets (129)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 2019 to 2020, from $60k to $90k (+52%).

$70k
$57k
$60k
$90k
$108k
$88k
$77k
$87k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

14% of DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
−$12k
’18
$2k
’19
$10k
’20
$17k
’21
$3k
’22
−$11k
’23
$10k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS’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 DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

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

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: 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 DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being RUSSELL T LUND CHARITABLE TRUST ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS.
Who is the largest funder of DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
RUSSELL T LUND CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DAKOTA CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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 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