Minnesota · Nonprofit
EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE
EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,500 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($132,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $242k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $308k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Exposed Brick Theatre does
Mission
The mission of Exposed Brick Theatre is to tell untold stories, center omitted narratives and create art at the intersection of identities. We seek to change the canon of theater - one story at a time.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
New Play Development and Performances. In 2025, Exposed Brick Theatre (EBT) produced the Through Our Eyes 2 - New Plays Festival. This Festival showcased the work of Twin Cities playwrights from historically excluded communitites, and was the culmination of a year-long Through Our Eyes playwriting cohort. The Festival included the world premiere productions of Burn & Dash by Sunny Thao and Quinceañera by Mayra Gurrola Calderón as well as three staged readings of new work. EBT also toured the play Muyehpen by Ehkhudah Zar, the first ever K'nyaw(Karen)-American play in the U.S., to Worthington, Minnesota; and hosted a stage reading of Zar's newest work, Tohkibaw & Nawthoemaw at Urban Village. Number benefitting: 1366
$132,952 spentof which $109,250 as grants$15,192 earned by the program58% of program spendingEducation: In 2025, EBT taught workshops at several middle, high school, colleges and universities in Minnesota. Over 90% of middle & high school classes were taught at either Minneapolis public schools or St. Paul Public High Schools, and over 95% of all workshops were offered for no cost to the schools. Workshops included Scenes from Muyehpen, a theater workshop using scenes from the first ever K'nyaw(Karen)-American play in the U.S.; Introductory Playwriting, Acting & Social Justice Theater classes. EBT also taught classes to college & universities, including partnership with OnStage to bring scenes from the Through Our Eyes 2 Festival plays into college classrooms to inspire dialogue about issues in the plays; as well as using theater as a way to create connections for incoming first year students at Southwest Minnesota State University. Number benefitting: 1421
$40,376 spentof which $12,000 as grants$1,725 earned by the program18% of program spendingArtist Training: EBT provides quality arts classes to Twin Cities based artists. Artist Training includes the Through Our Eyes playwriting cohort, a paid, year-long cohort for 6 Twin Cities playwrights. Playwrights attend monthly classes, and are paired with mentors to support the development of a new play. In 2025, the cohort culminated with the Through Our Eyes 2 - New Play Festival, which was included in the New Plays Service Accomplishments category. In addition to the Cohort, in which playwrights are selected, EBT also provides Artist Training classes. While these classes are open to all artists, the classes center artists from historically excluded communities. EBT removes access barriers by offering classes at no cost & reimbursing transportation and childcare for in person classes. Classes taught into 2025 included a five week Storytelling for the Stage workshop series and a Crafting a Monologue workshop. Total Benefitting: 68
$27,470 spentof which $25,000 as grants12% of program spendingCommunity Engagement: Community Engagement takes many forms, but is the work that we do in partnership with other organizations to use theater as a way of building community & engaging in inclusive storytelling events. 2025 collaborations include partnering with Speaking Out Collective for an intergenerational puppet show & puppet making workshop for children & families; and partnering with Theatre Mu and The SEAD Project for Diaspora After Dark, an evening of storytelling based on ghost stories. Number benefitting: 275
$11,664 spent5% of program spendingConsulting. Using an arts-based focus, Exposed Brick provides consulting that focuses on increasing cultural competency and creating belonging. In 2025, EBT led workshops and training for several arts and funding organizations, and concluded a year-long equity audit project looking at arts funding in the state of Minnesota. EBT presented the findings from the audit at the 2025 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference. Note that the number benefitting only includes those who directly participated in workshops or trainings, and does not include the numerous individuals that have read the equity audit report. Number benefitting: 79
$15,269 spent$18,268 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $227,731.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $20k to $80k (+308%).
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: 2022 24% · 2023 30% · 2024 17% · 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE’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. 3 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Rebecca Talbot
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $23k → $50k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE’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
EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2022 88% · 2023 40% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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
EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE has grown faster 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
Government funding EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE: 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 EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE?
- EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,500 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($132,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $307,500 in grants to EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $132,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXPOSED BRICK THEATRE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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