Minnesota · Nonprofit
MACROSTIE ART CENTER
MACROSTIE ART CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $732,060 to it, the largest being C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION ($327,838). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $709k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $732k
- Net assets
- $922k
What Macrostie Art Center does
Mission
Macrostie Art Center's mission is to inspire a creative community. Mac operates a community art center to support local and regional artists, provides art education for people of all ages, and promotes awareness of the arts in northern minnesota.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, Macrostie Art Center's exhibition program presented 21 exhibitions and held 12 first friday opening receptions as part of a monthly community-wide art walk. Mac also hosted 7 community events in the giinawind creative space including artist talks, fashion shows, and musical performances. In its education program, mac offered 60 adult art classes and 24 youth art classes, and held 12 free family days. In support of the local arts economy, mac held the downtown art fair with 43 artist vendors, the fall studio tour with 19 itasca county artists, and sold artwork for over 120 different artists through our storefront and online art shop.
$392,150 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $392,150.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $695k to $929k (+34%).
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 18% · 2018 22% · 2019 26% · 2020 30% · 2021 36% · 2022 17% · 2023 14% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $137k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 MACROSTIE ART CENTER’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
MACROSTIE ART CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 87% · 2019 57% · 2020 50% · 2021 67% · 2022 67% · 2023 80% — 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
40% of MACROSTIE ART CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
97% of MACROSTIE ART CENTER's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like MACROSTIE ART CENTER
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 MACROSTIE ART CENTER: 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 MACROSTIE ART CENTER?
- MACROSTIE ART CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $732,060 to it, the largest being C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION ($327,838). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MACROSTIE ART CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $732,060 in grants to MACROSTIE ART CENTER, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MACROSTIE ART CENTER?
- C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $327,838 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MACROSTIE ART 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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