Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM
MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,500 to it, the largest being HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION CHARITABLE TRUST ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $237k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $141k
- Net assets
- $586k
What Mini Sota Agricultural Childrens Museum does
Mission
Our mission at mini sota agricultural children's museum is to create an environment where children of all ages can explore the diverse field of agriculture through interactive exhibits. We will fulfill that mission through our five pillars and an array of exhibits that can evolve with the field of agriculture. Through nonprofit status, we will be able to involve our community members and businesses in a way that benefits both those who donate and our museum. It will allow us to focus our efforts and funds on educational programs, and provide access for all to play.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The purpose of this corporation is to receive contributions of money and other property through gifts, grants or bequests and to hold, invest and expand contributions in compliance with existing laws for the promotion, study and education of agriculture of swift county and the surrounding region and communities, including but not limited to the fields of machinery, grain production, engineering, livestock and local impact.
$92,723 spent$5,462 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $92,723.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $238k to $759k (+218%).
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: 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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
MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM.
“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
63% of MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k 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
MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM: 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 MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM?
- MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,500 to it, the largest being HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION CHARITABLE TRUST ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $140,500 in grants to MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM?
- HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINI SOTA AGRICULTURAL CHILDRENS MUSEUM 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 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