Minnesota · Nonprofit
EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL
EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $277,563 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($268,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $851k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $278k
- Net assets
- $86k
What East Central Regional Arts Council does
Mission
The East Central Regional Arts Council's purpose is to promote and encourage all of the arts in east central minnesota. The organization does this by funding grant proposals from area arts and community organizations, governmental units, and individuals. These activities are funded in part by appropriations from the minnesota state legislature, with money from the state's general fund and its arts and cultural heritage fund. The fund was created by a vote of the people of minnesota on november 4, 2008. These activities are also funded in part by the mcknight foundation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The East Central Regional Arts Council's program included providing grants totaling $481,923 to individuals and groups for arts projects.the organization also provided technical assistance to grantees and others interested in the arts through workshops, art shows, and the "essential arts" newsletter. East Central Regional Arts Council also worked to identify economic and community development links in the region, providing information, assistance, and referrals on arts issues.
$808,573 spentof which $481,923 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $808,573.
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 2019 to 2020, from $132k to $254k (+92%).
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 90% · 2018 92% · 2019 93% · 2020 91% · 2021 87% · 2022 85% · 2023 94% · 2024 93% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Mary Minnick-Daniels
Executive director
Board chair
Carla Vita
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $42k → $50k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL’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
EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL 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 82% · 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 EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86 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
EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL: 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 EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL?
- EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $277,563 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($268,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $277,563 in grants to EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $268,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL 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 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