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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.

$2.2M
Revenue FY2025
10
Funders on record
$1.4M
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%

Against its field

MIDWEST ART CONSERVATION CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve5.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($972k)2018 Revenue 175 ($2.2M) Expenses 106 ($1.3M) Net assets 195 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 106 ($1.3M) Expenses 104 ($1.3M) Net assets 203 ($2.0M)2020 Revenue 90 ($1.1M) Expenses 106 ($1.3M) Net assets 180 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 115 ($1.4M) Expenses 116 ($1.4M) Net assets 201 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 143 ($1.8M) Expenses 134 ($1.6M) Net assets 202 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 213 ($2.7M) Expenses 182 ($2.2M) Net assets 260 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 174 ($2.2M) Expenses 166 ($2.0M) Net assets 279 ($2.7M)2025 Revenue 173 ($2.2M) Expenses 177 ($2.2M) Net assets 280 ($2.7M)
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Revenue (173)Expenses (177)Net assets (280)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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 (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
17
$899k
18
$61k
19
$158k
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$28k
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$157k
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$453k
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$162k
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$23k
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5.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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

94%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

MN
NY
IA
DE
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Minnesota out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

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.

Federal$2.1M
grants $2.0Mcontracts $42k
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Top agencies
  • 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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Minnesota

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 11%Fundraising 1%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MN

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

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.

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 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing