Minnesota · Nonprofit
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.
Against its field
GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- The Ron and Diane Fagen Family Foundationlocal
- Burning Man Projectportfolio match
- Monmouth County Arts Council Incportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $127k.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 390 organizations that share them.
- The Ron and Diane Fagen Family FoundationlocalMN · funds 4 organizations near you
- Burning Man Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Monmouth County Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lake Region Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Flint Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Greater Lansingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for The Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Western States Arts Federationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hyde Park Art Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Action Alliance Foundation Dba Clackamas County Arts Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council Santa Cruz Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like GRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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.
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 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.
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 4funders 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