Minnesota · Nonprofit
Minnesota Winds
Minnesota Winds (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,198 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $28k
- Net assets
- $69k
What Minnesota Winds does
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of Minnesota Winds is to advance and promote the art of concert band wind band music by presenting high-quality public performances supporting professional musicians commissioning new works for concert band and delivering music education activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Program Service Accomplishment Public Performances: Minnesota Winds presented two high-quality public concert band wind band performances during the fiscal year advancing its mission to promote and expand the art form. These performances were accessible to the community and reached a total audience of approximately 350 attendees. The organization engaged 12 professional musicians providing compensated artistic opportunities while delivering culturally enriching experiences and increasing access to live wind band music.
$7,967 spent43% of program spendingProgram Service Accomplishment Music Education: The organization delivered music education programming with the Minnesota Winds Trio as part of the YourClassical MPR Class Notes initiative. The ensemble traveled to schools across Minnesota presenting 20 educational performances that combined live music with storytelling and interactive engagement. These programs reached over 600 students in kindergarten through 12th grade supporting music education and increasing access to high-quality live performance experiences in school settings.
$10,519 spent57% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,486.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Meagan Bachmayer
Co-founder and Board Member and Executive Director
Board chair
Karrin Meffert-Nelson
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 Winds’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 Winds 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
53% 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 Winds.
“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
53% of Minnesota Winds'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
Minnesota Winds runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 Winds
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Minnesota Winds: 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 Winds?
- Minnesota Winds (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,198 to it, the largest being AMERICAN GIFT FUND ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Minnesota Winds have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $28,198 in grants to Minnesota Winds, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Minnesota Winds?
- AMERICAN GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Minnesota Winds 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 2025–2025), 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