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.
- Revenue FY2024
- $484k
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Franconia Sculpture Park Legeros does
Mission
Franconia sculpture park is the pre-eminent, artist-centered sculpture park in the midwest. Founded in 1996, franconia provides physically and intellectually wide-open spaces that inspire new ways of thinking through access to contemporary sculpture, installation and land art. Located in the scenic st. Croix river valley.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Arts, education & public programs: franconia provides a depth and breadth of on-site education programs that supplement steam curriculum. Programs include weekly tours, multigenerational artmaking workshops, observe & interpret workshops, field trips, summer camps, dinner& discussion lectures, music at franconia concerts, film at franconia screenings, and performance at franconia events.
$301,456 spent$9,788 earned by the program56% of program spendingEngagement: franconia operates a 50-acre outdoor museum that includes franconia commons, a 7,000 sq. Foot visitor center, education space, gallery and gift shop. Our activities cultivate critical dialogue between artists and audiences; support artists through the production and presentation of new, experimental work; and educate artists and audiences of tomorrow. Franconia applies creative solutions to the problems of today and tomorrow through the vehicle of contemporary sculpture. We create bold programming that is ambitious, innovative, and that is responsive to the wants and needs of artists and our community. Moreover, we aim to create a welcoming, inviting space for all visitors to learn more about art, the environment, and the changing world we live in. Franconia is free and open to the public 365-days a year, and serves more than 96,000 adults and 54,000 youths annually.
$53,832 spent10% of program spendingArtist residency: franconia provides year-round residency programs that provide money, studio space, professional development, and exhibition opportunity for more than 40 artists and writers annually working at the intersection of scrulpture, installation, social practice, performance, and land art. Our current programs include: winter writers residency, emerging artists-in-residency, and mid-career fellowships.
$183,027 spent34% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $538,315.
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 $3.6M to $3.3M (−10%).
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
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.
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 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
FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS's revenue fell 40% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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
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
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.
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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.
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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 37 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