Minnesota · Nonprofit
Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minnesota) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,867,568 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($1,584,750). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Patrick and Aimee Butler Familyshared funders
- Theatre Communications Group Incportfolio match
- Theatre Bay Areaportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 23% · 2022 19% · 2023 25% · 2024 17% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $338k → $513k.
12 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Mixed Blood Theatre Company’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
Mixed Blood Theatre Company has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 67% · 2019 47% · 2020 23% · 2021 29% · 2022 36% · 2023 20% — 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
48% of Mixed Blood Theatre Company's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
Mixed Blood Theatre Company draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $734k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 41 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Patrick and Aimee Butler Familyshared fundersMN · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- Theatre Communications Group Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theatre Bay Areaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Network of Ensemble Theaters Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bayless Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Golden Fund Inc Co John Breglio-Paul Weiss Et Alportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jim and Linda Lee Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Theater League Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fr Bigelow Foundationshared funderslocalMN · backs 104 organizations that share your funders · funds 421 organizations near you
- Hardenbergh Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Propel Nonprofitsshared funderslocalMN · backs 58 organizations that share your funders · funds 259 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding Mixed Blood Theatre Company receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $270k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$270k
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 Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 Mixed Blood Theatre Company: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Mixed Blood Theatre Company?
- Mixed Blood Theatre Company (Minnesota) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,867,568 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($1,584,750). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mixed Blood Theatre Company have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $4,867,568 in grants to Mixed Blood Theatre Company, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mixed Blood Theatre Company?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,584,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mixed Blood Theatre Company 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.
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 41funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing