Minnesota · Nonprofit
MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP
MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $466,394 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($190,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $157k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $466k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Monkeybears Harmolodic Workshop does
Mission
supporting artists in developing technical and creative skills in creating puppetry
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Puppet Film Production/ Post Production (second phase of our puppet films program), cohort of 7 reworks puppets, films and edits films, sound design
$40,073 spent44% of program spendingPuppet film story development, which is the first phase of our puppet films program, a cohort of seven artists who have been through our new Puppetworks program develop stories and create mockups and puppets to make their puppet films
$35,000 spent38% of program spendingShadow Puppetry, experimenting in the form and workshopping pieces, involved 8 artists
$15,868 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,941.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $109k to $70k (−36%).
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.
78% of MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Pramila Vasudevan
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $61k → $61k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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
MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 33% · 2022 67% · 2023 41% — 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.
Where its funders are
94% of MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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
MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $466k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
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 MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP
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
50%
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 MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP: 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 MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP?
- MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP (Minnesota) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $466,394 to it, the largest being The McKnight Foundation ($190,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $466,394 in grants to MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP?
- The McKnight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 8 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