Minnesota · Nonprofit
INVERTED ARTS
INVERTED ARTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,528 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($16,352). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $12k
What Inverted Arts does
Mission
Empower young people to overcome challenges through art
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Kenyan Small Business Partners - Provided small business grants and training to three scholarship graduates to help them lead small businesses that use their entrepreneurial skills to bring valued goods, services and employment to their communities.
$37,414 spentof which $11,646 as grants31% of program spendingKenya Mathare Community - Provided 4-year scholarship awards for students who have graduated from Mathare Community Outreach and are furthering their artistic studies at a college level. Provided resources and management for an annual Art Camp for 75-100 students led by Kenyan Artist Mentors.
$26,311 spentof which $7,000 as grants22% of program spendingLiberia Mission of Hope - Provided 4-year scholarship awards for students at the Mission of Hope for the Disabled and are furthering their artistic studies at a college level. Provided resources and management for an annual Art Camp for 125-150 students led by Liberian Artist Mentors.
$24,322 spentof which $8,875 as grants20% of program spendingAll other programs, including Art Camps, Art Exploration Programs and Studio Projects.
$33,626 spentof which $3,572 as grants28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $121,673.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $23k to $13k (−44%).
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 INVERTED ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 INVERTED ARTS’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
INVERTED ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
68% 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 INVERTED ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 53% · 2021 78% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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
INVERTED ARTS draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
INVERTED ARTS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INVERTED ARTS
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.
Public support
77%
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 INVERTED ARTS: 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 INVERTED ARTS?
- INVERTED ARTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,528 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($16,352). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INVERTED ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $31,528 in grants to INVERTED ARTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INVERTED ARTS?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,352 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INVERTED ARTS 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 2021–2025), 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