Minnesota · Nonprofit
FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS
FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS (Minnesota) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,980,414 to it, the largest being EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($430,487). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS's revenue fell 40% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- William Boss Foundationshared funders
- Gateway Foundationportfolio match
- Via Art Fund Incportfolio match
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.
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 10% · 2018 15% · 2019 42% · 2020 38% · 2021 20% · 2022 24% · 2023 17% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS’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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income fell $445k → $419k.
6 of 37 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 FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
39% 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 FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 31% · 2019 21% · 2020 24% · 2021 32% · 2022 41% · 2023 18% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
70% of FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $635k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 37 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- William Boss Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Gateway Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Via Art Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harpo Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Artist Communities Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cec Artslink Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teiger Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deborah Buck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Patrick and Aimee Butler Familyshared funderslocalMN · backs 80 organizations that share your funders · funds 2 organizations near you
- Cargill Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Fr Bigelow Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 145 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $275k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$275k
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 FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS?
- FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS (Minnesota) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,980,414 to it, the largest being EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($430,487). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,980,414 in grants to FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS?
- EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $430,487 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing