Minnesota · Nonprofit
FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC
FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,000 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($270,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $520k
- Net assets
- $10k
What Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota Inc does
Mission
The Forum of Regional Arts Councils of Minnesota is a consortium of the eleven Regional Arts Councils that serve all Minnesota counties, providing continuous improvement of the individual councils through implementation of best practices in programming, management, and leadership development and information for Minnesota artists and organizations. The Forum provides a means for regional arts councils to work on common collaborative projects that serve the needs of the statewide arts community, work on common issues and concerns, provide an opportunity for regional arts council directors to network with their statewide counterparts and take part in professional development activities related to grant making, leadership and management.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Forum provided a professional development opportunity for all 11 Minnesota regional arts councils to participate in a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion learning process. The initiative included participation in planning sessions focused on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as it relates to funding arts projects. Smaller initiatives and training focused on anti-bias and cultural diversity.
$0 spentof which $14,179 as grantsThe Forum provided technical assistance through information exchange, networking and planning opportunities, information and referral, training and statewide projects that impact the arts community in Minnesota. The Forum also provides grants for Professional Development and Leadership opportunities.
$0 spentof which $7,082 as grants
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2024 to 2025, from $70k to $10k (−86%).
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: 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $45k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC’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
FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
48% 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 FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 100% · 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 FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k 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
FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC's revenue fell 45% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC?
- FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,000 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($270,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $520,000 in grants to FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $270,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORUM OF REGIONAL ARTS COUNCILS OF MINNESOTA INC 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 2 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