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LANESBORO ARTS CENTER

LANESBORO ARTS CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,041,591 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$472k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$796k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Lanesboro Arts Center does

Mission

Lanesboro Arts Center serves as a regional catalyst for artistic excellence and educational development in providing diverse art experiences for people of all ages.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Lanesboro arts continued to activate the people and places of lanesboro in 2023 through its outreach and engagement initiatives, including: art in the park annual fine art festival in sylvan park, artist residencies that focused on place-based community engagement, maintaining a consignment sales gallery in person and online supporting nearly 100 artists, offering youth art education programs, installing community based public art, and presenting performing arts events at the st. Mane theatre and in gateway park, including a diverse range of concerts and dramatic theater performances.

    $379,072 spent$146,668 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $379,072.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($342k) Expenses 100 ($391k) Net assets 100 ($917k)2020 Revenue 86 ($293k) Expenses 90 ($352k) Net assets 93 ($857k)2021 Revenue 141 ($482k) Expenses 97 ($380k) Net assets 105 ($958k)2022 Revenue 99 ($338k) Expenses 108 ($422k) Net assets 95 ($875k)2023 Revenue 112 ($383k) Expenses 126 ($492k) Net assets 84 ($767k)2024 Revenue 138 ($472k) Expenses 113 ($442k) Net assets 87 ($796k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (138)Expenses (113)Net assets (87)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 2022 to 2023, from $892k to $782k (−12%).

$992k
$911k
$970k
$892k
$782k
$807k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 16% · 2020 30% · 2021 36% · 2022 27% · 2023 25% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

71% of LANESBORO ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$49k
’19
−$60k
’20
$101k
’21
−$83k
’22
−$108k
’23
$29k
’24
11
months of
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

Michael Augustin

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed91212131010
Joined·+4+2+1+1+2
No longer listed·12042
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $56k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 LANESBORO ARTS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 10 funders by total. 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

LANESBORO ARTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 LANESBORO ARTS CENTER.

48%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 82% · 2020 64% · 2021 88% · 2022 82% · 2023 82% — 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

43% of LANESBORO ARTS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

100% of LANESBORO ARTS CENTER's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.

MN
WI
NY

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $500k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LANESBORO ARTS CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve10.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like LANESBORO ARTS CENTER

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 16%Fundraising 7%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds LANESBORO ARTS CENTER?
LANESBORO ARTS CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,041,591 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LANESBORO ARTS CENTER have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,041,591 in grants to LANESBORO ARTS CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LANESBORO ARTS CENTER?
MINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LANESBORO ARTS CENTER 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 10 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