Minnesota · Nonprofit
MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $694,689 to it, the largest being THE JAMES M STANTON FOUNDATION ($210,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $695k
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Minnetonka Center for the Arts does
Mission
In the belief that the visual arts are indispensable to a healthy community, it is the mission of the Minnetonka Center for the Arts to provide teaching excellence, quality exhibitions, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages, interests, and abilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Studio classes:in pursuit of our goal to enhance the quality of life in our community, we provide year-round studio classes for adults, youth, and children. We provide classes in painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography, fiber arts, glass, jewelry and more. Instructors are highly skilled, professional artists with experience and an interest in nurturing and guiding developing artists. For fy25, we held 554 on-site studio classes and workshops and had over 2,801 registrations. In addition, we had over 581 registrations for our summer arts camp, which provides a unique opportunity for children and youth ages 5-15 to experience a professional art studio environment and learn from working artists.
$959,631 spentof which $3,321 as grants$804,768 earned by the program84% of program spendingExhibitions:our gallery is open to the public and admission is free. We feature artwork by local, regional, and nationally known artists. In fy25, we presented four exhibits on-site and an additional four exhibits offsite at the ridgedale shopping center. A total of 4,294 works of art and fine craft by 200 artists with a total retail value of $456,035 were displayed.
$166,145 spent$162,208 earned by the program14% of program spendingCommunity outreach:in an effort to make our programs available to the widest possible audience, 513 children, youth and adults from twenty different community partners participated in our outreach programs during the fiscal year. Many participated at low or no cost.
$20,052 spent$19,884 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,145,828.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2018 to 2019, from $4.7M to $5.1M (+8%).
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: 2017 6% · 2018 9% · 2019 4% · 2020 7% · 2021 45% · 2022 23% · 2024 7% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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
Roxanne L Heaton
Executive director
Board chair
Jim Schwert
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $24k → $67k.
3 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 56% · 2019 61% · 2020 24% · 2021 31% · 2022 29% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
60% of MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
85% of MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE 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. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE 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.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Minnesota) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $694,689 to it, the largest being THE JAMES M STANTON FOUNDATION ($210,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $694,689 in grants to MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- THE JAMES M STANTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 33 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing