Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNESOTA MEDIA ARTS
MINNESOTA MEDIA ARTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,485 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($74,485). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $39k
What Minnesota Media Arts does
Mission
The specific purpose of the Corporation is charitable: To preserve, protect and promote media arts for purposes of historical and cultural preservation. This includes restoring and digitally archiving historical analog recordings and repairing associated magnetic media recording and playback devices. Capturing and documenting new artistic expression. Compiling and maintaining a digital archive and repository to share with the public, researchers and educators [public television, historical societies] and other interested parties. Advocacy, instructing and educating the public about the importance of media arts and cultural preservation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Founded in 1983, as the Twin Cities Cable Arts Consortium included members from the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, artists and arts organizations to promote arts programming on CATV systems throughout Minnesota. Rebranded in 2015 as Minnesota Media Arts, our new focus is the preservation of artistic and cultural heritage, especially those programs recorded on magnetic media. We are a member supported 501(c)(3) nonprofit consulting, production and preservation organization serving artists, film and video makers, arts organizations, museums, community & broadcast media centers, educational institutions and tribal nations. Our 2023-24 Website traffic statistics over 60,000 website visits this past fiscal year. MNMediaarts.org. MNMA completed a Phase 1, Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage, Legacy Grant for a Media Collection Care for Media Artist Melisande Charles (1931-2017). We completed a pilot media archive project with a Northern Minnesota Tribal Archives, providing collection care and media conversion services for the preservation of 16mm and 8mm files, EIAJ open Reel videotapes and Audio cassette recordings. We completed an archive project for private…
$18,431 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,431.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $39k to $40k (+2%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of MINNESOTA MEDIA ARTS’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 MEDIA ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
93% 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 MEDIA ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 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
93% of MINNESOTA MEDIA ARTS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like MINNESOTA MEDIA ARTS
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
99%
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 MINNESOTA MEDIA ARTS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MINNESOTA MEDIA ARTS?
- MINNESOTA MEDIA ARTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,485 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($74,485). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNESOTA MEDIA ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $80,485 in grants to MINNESOTA MEDIA ARTS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNESOTA MEDIA ARTS?
- MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $74,485 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNESOTA MEDIA ARTS 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.
Play a game about who funds Minnesota Media Arts →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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