Minnesota · Nonprofit
MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART
MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,145,371 to it, the largest being THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC ($751,389). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Midway Contemporary Art does
Mission
Midway Contemporary Art is a nonprofit organization that supports the creation of and reflection upon visual art. Midway facilitates significant new developments in the field and presents audiences with intimate access to visual culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Exhibitions:over the past two decades, midway has organized more than 100 solo and group exhibitions. We are committed to commissioning and developing new projects, often with artists who have not previously exhibited in the midwest or, in many cases, in the united states. As a non-collecting organization, midway centers artists in every aspect of its programming. We collaborate closely with them to present their work and shape meaningful audience engagement, while providing the time, space, and resources needed to develop ambitious new projects.in august 2024, we reopened our newly renovated permanent home with an inaugural exhibition by new york-based artist grant mooney, featuring commissioned sculptures primarily fabricated in the twin cities during multiple site visits. In november, we presented an exhibition of new works by north minneapolis born artist cameron patricia downey. Midway also hosted gallery conversations with both mooney and downey in conjunction with their respective exhibitions. Many of our public programs are initiated by the presenting artists and offer visitors and the community a deeper understanding of their creative process and the works on view.…
$701,791 spentof which $55,000 as grants$3,195 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $701,791.
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 2020 to 2021, from $549k to $2.6M (+365%).
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 11% · 2018 10% · 2021 12% · 2022 10% · 2023 22% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART’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. 2 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
Alan Polsky
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $12k → $330k.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART’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
MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 85% · 2019 50% · 2020 43% · 2021 35% · 2022 47% · 2023 45% — 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
73% of MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $964k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $350k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$200k
- Department of Agriculture$150k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART: 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 MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART?
- MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,145,371 to it, the largest being THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC ($751,389). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,145,371 in grants to MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART?
- THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $751,389 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDWAY CONTEMPORARY ART 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 23 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