Minnesota · Nonprofit
IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA
IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,006 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($5,855). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $834k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Irish Fair of Minnesota does
Mission
Promote and cultivate irish culture and preserve a rich heritage of traditions for the future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The purpose of the Irish Fair of Minnesota is to promote and operate a cultural and educational festival on an annual basis. The festival promotes and supports irish and irish american culture, arts, and artists in minnesota. The irish fair is run by a core group of dedicated volunteers.
$822,378 spent$718,919 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $822,378.
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 2021 to 2022, from $131k to $203k (+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 12% · 2018 14% · 2019 14% · 2020 80% · 2021 5% · 2022 6% · 2023 13% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 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.
Board chair
Tom Whelan
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $34.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA’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
IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
75% 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 IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA draws 75% 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. $151 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.
Against its field
IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA's revenue grew 18% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA: 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 IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA?
- IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,006 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($5,855). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,006 in grants to IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,855 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IRISH FAIR OF MINNESOTA 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 3 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