Minnesota · Nonprofit
EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA
EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,500 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Early Music Minnesota does
Mission
Work to create a diverse and stable early music scene in the minneapolis-st paul minnesota area
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Created a strategic plan for the next 5 years, resulting in a name change (from the baroque room to Early Music Minnesota), and provided administrative support for 4 musicians and 2 music organizations.
$19,421 spent47% of program spendingLaunching a solo harpsichord series and chamber music series under the new name Early Music Minnesota in partnership with mount olive lutheran church in minneapolis, mn, including the presentation of internationally renowned harpsichordist arthur haas in a stellar performance of js bachs goldberg variations.
$16,000 spent39% of program spendingProvided excellent harpsichords and tuning for 6 organizations and many individuals.
$5,953 spent14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $41,374.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $87k to $54k (−38%).
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.
16% of EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $3k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
88% 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 EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2022 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
88% of EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA's revenue fell 65% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA: 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 EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA?
- EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,500 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($26,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $29,500 in grants to EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EARLY MUSIC MINNESOTA 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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