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GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL

GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,608 to it, the largest being C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$56k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$204k
Net assets
$208k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%
01What it does

What Granite Area Arts Council does

Mission

Building community through the arts. Art gallery, gift shop, art classes, art events and residencies

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Riverside gallery and gift shop. Providing a location for local artists to sell their pieces on a consignment basis.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($193k) Expenses 100 ($109k) Net assets 100 ($219k)2024 Revenue 29 ($56k) Expenses 56 ($61k) Net assets 95 ($208k)
20232024
Revenue (29)Expenses (56)Net assets (95)Peer revenue range

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 $219k to $208k (−5%).

$219k
$208k
20232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$84k
’23
−$5k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $127k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
3
3
3
3
2
1

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL’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

GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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

27% 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 GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL.

61%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 87% · 2022 68% · 2023 98% — 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 GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−8% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−71% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL

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In Minnesota

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL: 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 GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL?
GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $203,608 to it, the largest being C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION ($125,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $203,608 in grants to GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL?
C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 4 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