Minnesota · Nonprofit
MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC
MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,388,632 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Midwest Art Conservation Center Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is for the preservation and conservation of art and artifacts; providing treatment, education, and training for museums, historical societies, libraries, other cultural institutions, artists, and the public throughout the midwest region and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conservation:treatments - encompasses all direct conservation and restoration treatments applied to works of art, artifacts, and historical items. Treatments prevent deterioration, ensure original integrity and enhance exhibition and access to works of art, historical artifacts and documents. Several hundred works of art are conserved through treatment each year.(continued on schedule o)consultation - consists of ongoing dialogues and provisions of written and photographic information to curators, librarians, archivists, collection managers and the general public regarding treatments, discoveries and practices associated with particular items. Conservator's examinations with diagnostics in conjunction with curatorial expertise lead to discoveries in dating, authenticity, structural and aesthetic techniques, shipping, handling and display techniques. Hundreds of institutions rely on macc's consultations each year.
$1,364,775 spent$1,681,051 earned by the program72% of program spendingPreventive conservation:conservation - consists of outreach programming providing cultural repositories with collection assessments, evaluations, mentorships, education, training, and emergency response services along with monitoring equipment for loans. Hundreds of collecting institutions' staff members throughout the midwest and beyond attend workshops and receive collections care instruction each year. Over 10,000 inquiries on collections related issues are handled each year.(continued on schedule o)public programming - includes tours, workshops and presentations to inform, teach and build appreciation for the importance and challenges of preserving the physical elements of cultural heritage. Macc holds regular tours of its facility and provides lectures on conservation for museums and other collecting institutions, and more recently, for high school audiences.
$536,794 spent$27,200 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,901,569.
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 $1.0M to $1.9M (+93%).
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 12% · 2018 9% · 2019 17% · 2020 13% · 2021 22% · 2022 23% · 2023 5% · 2024 13% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 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.
Chief executive
Colin Turner
Executive director
Board chair
Nancy Huart
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $802k → $18k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC’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
MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 78% · 2022 97% · 2023 87% — 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
57% of MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k 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.
Against its field
MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$2.0M
- General Services Administration$27k
- Smithsonian Institution$15k
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 MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC: 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 MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC?
- MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,388,632 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,300,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,388,632 in grants to MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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