Minnesota · Nonprofit
METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL
METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,896,849 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,700,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.7M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $728k
What Metropolitan Regional Arts Council does
Mission
The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council improves arts access for communities in the seven county metropolitan area through support to artists and organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Flexible support flexible support - received 377 applications, and awarded 213 grants to groups and organizations in all 7-metro counties totalling $4,836,111. Mrac awarded 191 grants to bipoc, lgbtq+ and/or people with disabilities totalling $4,361,988. Arts impact for individuals arts impact for individuals - received 151 applications, and awarded 107 grants to individuals in all 7-county metro counties totalling $529,224. 100% of these awards went to individuals that identify as bipoc, lgbtq+ and/or a person with disabilities. Next step next step fund - received 405 applications, and awarded 28 grants to individuals dakota, hennepin, ramsey and washington counties totalling $160,810. 19 grants were awarded to individuals that identify as bipoc, lgbtq+ and/or a person with disabilities.
$6,274,105 spentof which $5,558,695 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,274,105.
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 $424k to $2.7M (+531%).
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 90% · 2018 99% · 2019 94% · 2020 89% · 2021 97% · 2022 84% · 2023 98% · 2024 95% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Ryan-Olivia Lundy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $200k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL’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
METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 89% · 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
100% of METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL's revenue grew 41% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL: 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 METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL?
- METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,896,849 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($1,700,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,896,849 in grants to METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like METROPOLITAN REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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