Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE
MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75 to it, the largest being WILL BRACKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($75). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $63k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $75
- Net assets
- $19k
What Minnesota Bach Ensemble does
Mission
Work to create a diverse and stable early music scene in the minneapolis-st paul minnesota based area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Italian splendor: this concert explored italian baroque music, featuring works by vivaldi, valentini, bach, and handel marked mbes first-ever self-led, unconducted performance, with concertmaster cece belcher leading the small orchestra alongside harpsichordist and acting co-artistic director tami morse.
$9,628 spent27% of program spendingThe family bach: chamber concert featured music by c.p.e. Bach, j.s. Bach, and telemann, highlighting the deep family connections and shared artistry among these baroque composers. Marking mbes first-ever chamber performance, musicians linh kauffman, basil reeve, kthe jarka, cece belcher, adam kuenzel, and tami morse brought the program to life.
$4,536 spent13% of program spendingThrough bachs lens: this all-j.s. Bach program centered on his musical and spiritual vision in cantata 1083. Guest artists mezzo-soprano clara osowski and harpsichordist jeffrey grossman joined mbe soloists linh kauffman, basil reeve, and concertmaster cece belcher. The performance marked mbes first-ever sold-out concert.
$21,595 spent60% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,759.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $28k to $17k (−39%).
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.
83% of MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE: 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 MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE?
- MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75 to it, the largest being WILL BRACKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($75). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $75 in grants to MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE?
- WILL BRACKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA BACH ENSEMBLE 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1 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