Minnesota · Nonprofit
LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts
LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,000 to it, the largest being GREAT MN SCHOOLS ($405,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $455k
- Net assets
- $-1469312
What LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts does
Mission
To inspire life-long learning, empower ALL students academically, and nuture the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Loveworks Academy provided approximately 89 students K-8 education, emphasizing a nurturing environment with a multidisciplinary approach to academics. The liberal arts curricula and teaching methods are evaluated and continuously improved, high expectations are clearly defined and intellectual rigor is utilized to address the learning needs of all learners.
$2,550,068 spent$3,584 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,550,068.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.6M to $2.7M (−25%).
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 94% · 2018 92% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 85% · 2023 95% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Donald Allen
Executive Director
Board chair
Raygen Gipson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $405k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance 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
LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
89% 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 LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 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
100% of LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts's revenue fell 18% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts
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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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance 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 LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts?
- LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $455,000 to it, the largest being GREAT MN SCHOOLS ($405,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $455,000 in grants to LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts.
- Who is the largest funder of LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance Arts?
- GREAT MN SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $405,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LoveWorks Academy for Visual and Performance 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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