Minnesota · Nonprofit
HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION
HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,161 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($48,054). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $46k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $109k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Historic Saint Paul Corporation does
Mission
Historic saint paul is a nonprofit organization, established in 1998, with a mission to preserve and promote the cultural heritage, character, and vitality of saint paul neighborhoods. We work to preserve so that saint paul's cultural character reflects the unique stories and places of the diverse people who lived and worked here. We believe that a unique and reflective cultural character improves local community. The more that people feel connected to saint paul and their neighborhood, the more our city grows and thrives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Preservation education, advocacy, and activity. 2023 activities included ongoing: work with the saint paul historical interactive website, direct work to ensure the preservation and rehabilitation of the justus ramsey house and 47 douglas street, preservation advocacy within the city of saint paul, working with the preservation of historic parks, and preservation educational efforts including publications, community meetings, workshops, and other events.
$40,413 spent$17,341 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $40,413.
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 2019 to 2020, from $492k to $214k (−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: 2018 48% · 2019 68% · 2020 57% · 2021 18% · 2022 13% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION’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. 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 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $23k → $3k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION’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
HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 94% · 2022 81% · 2023 39% — 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
100% of HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% 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
54% of HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $50k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k 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
HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Preserve Frogtown · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION: 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 HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION?
- HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,161 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($48,054). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $109,161 in grants to HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $48,054 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC SAINT PAUL CORPORATION 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 8 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