Minnesota · Nonprofit
FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL
FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,981 to it, the largest being SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL INC ($129,692). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $241k
- Net assets
- $42k
What Frozen River Film Festival does
Mission
The Frozen River Film Festival offers documentary films and programming that engage, educate and activate our community to become involved in the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Educate our audiences by offering documentary films and discussions on issues of local, regional and world importance. We expose our viewers to people and cultures they might otherwise never encounter, and to issues and perspectives they may have yet to consider.offer diverse points-of-view through the sharing of personal encounters dealing with world issues and nature. It is part of our mission to present a wide range of films and film makers from around the world.provide opportunities for debate, discussion and discourse on a variety of topics important to our community.encourage action on the part of each festival participant. Our festival will inspire viewers to take action on social issues, using tools and connections presented in documentary films and special q & a sessions that follow.promote cross-cultural dialogue as discovered and documented by innovative film-makers from minnesota, as well as other states and countries around the world.foster action on current issues through collaboration and coalition-building with other grassroots organizations.our events included a 5 day film festival; a "30 seconds in winona" film festival; a great river shakespeare collaborative…
$108,112 spent$22,605 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $108,112.
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 $72k to $32k (−56%).
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 39% · 2018 34% · 2019 46% · 2020 42% · 2021 41% · 2022 37% · 2023 25% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL’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 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $19k → $38k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL’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
FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
57% 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 FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 51% · 2019 46% · 2020 50% · 2021 31% · 2022 47% · 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
93% of FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
Organizations like FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL
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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL: 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 FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL?
- FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,981 to it, the largest being SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL INC ($129,692). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $240,981 in grants to FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL?
- SOUTHEASTERN MINNESOTA ARTS COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $129,692 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FROZEN RIVER FILM FESTIVAL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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