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MIZNA

MIZNA (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,419,067 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($700,000). 9 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.

$323k
Revenue FY2024
17
Funders on record
$1.4M
Grants received
$400k
Net assets
9/17 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

MIZNA is better cushioned than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−75% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($239k) Expenses 100 ($225k) Net assets 100 ($113k)2018 Revenue 136 ($324k) Expenses 97 ($219k) Net assets 192 ($218k)2019 Revenue 115 ($275k) Expenses 134 ($301k) Net assets 170 ($193k)2020 Revenue 141 ($336k) Expenses 98 ($221k) Net assets 271 ($307k)2021 Revenue 330 ($787k) Expenses 175 ($394k) Net assets 616 ($698k)2022 Revenue 143 ($341k) Expenses 152 ($341k) Net assets 616 ($698k)2023 Revenue 170 ($405k) Expenses 205 ($461k) Net assets 566 ($642k)2024 Revenue 135 ($323k) Expenses 251 ($564k) Net assets 353 ($400k)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (251)Net assets (353)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 27% · 2018 29% · 2019 29% · 2020 52% · 2021 13% · 2022 36% · 2023 30% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

76% of MIZNA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
17
$105k
18
$25k
19
$115k
20
$393k
21
$98
22
$56k
23
$241k
24
8.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $4k → $127k.

5 of 17 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 MIZNA’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

MIZNA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

71% 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 MIZNA.

49%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 83% · 2020 44% · 2021 47% · 2022 84% · 2023 39%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

44% of MIZNA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

58% of MIZNA'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 $600k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 8 states.

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
NJ
CA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $819k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 MIZNA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $165k on record.

Federal$165k
grants $165kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$165k

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 MIZNA

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 19%Fundraising 11%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

52%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIZNA: 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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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 MIZNA?
MIZNA (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,419,067 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($700,000). 9 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 MIZNA have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,419,067 in grants to MIZNA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MIZNA?
THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MIZNA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17funders 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