Minnesota · Nonprofit
MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash
MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,073 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($23,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $46k
- Net assets
- $149k
What MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash does
Mission
To support student Music trips (for Band and Choir) as well as the Music Theater and Art departments at Fillmore Central Public Schools
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization facilitates an annual Haunted House event ("Monster Bash Haunted House") in Harmony, MN where the students, their families and other volunteers raise funds to support its mission. The Haunted House event is open to the public for approximately 3 weekends (generally 9 days) during the Halloween season. Students, families and other volunteers plan, then build and decorate for the Haunted House (which has a different theme, layout and scares every year), take tickets for guests visiting the Haunted House and then help tear down the set-up after the season is complete. The funds are used to support the Music Theater and Art Departments as well as to cover expenses for the building where the Haunted House takes place and props, and equipment are stored.
$46,630 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,630.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $107k to $147k (+37%).
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.
44% of MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $847.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash’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
MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
52% 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 MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 83% — 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
52% of MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash'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 $22k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash has grown faster 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 MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash
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
99%
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 MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash: 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 MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash?
- MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,073 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ($23,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $46,073 in grants to MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash?
- SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONSTER BASH INCORPORATED Monster Bash 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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