Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD
MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,345 to it, the largest being Mankato Area Foundation ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $257k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $103k
- Net assets
- $174k
What Minnesota Makers & Artists Guild does
Mission
MN Makers & Artists Guild provides tools, space, education & advocacy for community members to create anything. The community will have access to a variety of art forms and crafts including wood working, metal working, glass blowing, ceramics, jewelry, technology, painting, crafting, sewing, among others. Memberships provide access to our brick & mortar at Mankato Makerspace in which we offer access to tools, teach classes, and create space for community members to achieve in their creative pursuits. We also provide education and advocacy in the performing and culinary arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
We provided 36+ sessions of childrens art classes in 2025 reaching over 400 children.
$12,545 spent$17,880 earned by the program11% of program spendingWe provide young adult/adult/community arts education and making experiences in a variety of crafts and trades throughout the year to members/community members, serving over 700 people.
$43,730 spent$53,167 earned by the program37% of program spendingWe provided space, tools, shop maintenance, and access to materials for members to pursue making throughout the year.
$62,946 spent$45,720 earned by the program53% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $119,221.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $45k to $174k (+289%).
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: 2024 27% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD’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. 1 of the last 5 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
Dustin Swiers
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $7k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD’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
MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 55% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
58% of MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $43k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k 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
MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD 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 MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD?
- MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,345 to it, the largest being Mankato Area Foundation ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $103,345 in grants to MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD?
- Mankato Area Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA MAKERS & ARTISTS GUILD 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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