Minnesota · Nonprofit
FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS
FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,217,852 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Forecast Public Artworks does
Mission
Forecast activates people, networks and proven practices to advance the transformational power of arts in public life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Consulting & creative services: for planning and engagement the forecast consulting team partners with decision-makers and stakeholders in communities of all sizes to offer consulting and technical assistance to support accessible and equitable arts and cultural planning efforts. This includes arts and culture policies, programs, ordinances, public art collections, and support for artists and community engagement. We focus our pro bono and in-kind services in communities of color, rural communities, and native nations. Through our learning institute we also offer workshops, training, fellowships, and other in-person and online learning opportunities focused on helping public artists, creatives, and affiliated professionals enlist culture and creativity to address equitable and healthy community outcomes.
$2,170,028 spentof which $856,600 as grants$1,130,856 earned by the program87% of program spendingArtist services: forecast provides funding to minnesota artists via our grant program ranging from $2,500-$10,000, and also serves as a valued support system for hundreds of artists in the larger public art community. With creative studio, forecast expands access to tools, resources, opportunities, and funding for artists to work in public, create partnerships, and advance their public art careers. We emphasize access for artists of color, indigenous artists, and groups that are traditionally excluded.
$191,595 spentof which $88,500 as grants8% of program spendingStory telling & research: forecast publishes a biannual digital publication, forward, that highlights how artists are partnering with cities, institutions and communities to courageously tackle the vital issues of our time. Alongside the publication we host forums and other engagements to continue the conversation on the topics of each issue. We also curate articles from our closed magazine, public art review, and offer custom publishing options to tell the stories of others in dynamic ways. Forecast also pilots new thinking, practices and research with the change lab fellowship program.
$132,782 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,494,405.
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 2023 to 2024, from $979k to $3.3M (+241%).
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 22% · 2018 13% · 2019 9% · 2020 20% · 2021 19% · 2022 15% · 2023 27% · 2024 17% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
32% of FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Theresa Sweetland
Executive director
Board chair
Dudley Voigt
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $40k → $168k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS’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
FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 51% · 2019 77% · 2020 86% · 2021 90% · 2022 56% · 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.
How long its funders stay
22% of FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $678k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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
FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $625k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$625k
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 FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
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 FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS: 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 FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS?
- FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,217,852 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $3,217,852 in grants to FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORECAST PUBLIC ARTWORKS 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 13 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