Minnesota · Nonprofit
North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER
North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,421 to it, the largest being REGION 2 ARTS COUNCIL ($118,733). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $149k
- Net assets
- $43k
What North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER does
Mission
The Nemeth Art Center is a 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization and gallery space located in rural northern Minnesota. Open in the summer months, the NAC exhibits contemporary art from emerging and recognized artists and is particularly focused on forging relationships between local and non-local artists through thoughtful curatorial programming. As a strong advocate of creative placemaking in a rural area, the Nemeth is committed to giving the community a public social space for exploring varied perspectives through visual arts, music, literary performance, and youth arts education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In 2024, the Nemeth hosted two gallery exhibitions showcasing work from four artists, each with their own unique connection to our community. Each show lasted around 1.5 months and was open to visitors from Thursday-Saturday each week. The gallery was open for visitors a total of 66 days in 2024 with an estimate of over 900 visitors during the season. As part of these exhibits, the Nemeth hosted two receptions/artist talks in 2024. These events involved an open house to view the current exhibitions on display and a 30 minute artist talk to hear from each of the artists with work on display and ask them questions.
$12,335 spent74% of program spendingThe Nemeth Art Center residency programs offer unique opportunities for visiting artists to interact with patrons and community members in ways such as open studios, artist talks, and collaborative projects. These interactions not only allow artists to share their creative processes and ideas but also enable patrons and community members to gain insight into the artistic journey and develop deeper connections with the artists and their work. In 2024, the Nemeth hosted artists in residence focused on painting, sculpture, and other media.
$3,728 spent22% of program spendingThe Nemeth hosts art classes taught by local and regional artists throughout the summer months along with an annual Youth Art Show. These activities provide opportunities to engage with and support budding talent in our own community. These classes were hosted by established local/regional artists in a variety of media. The Youth Art Show ran for the month of May and exhibited work by dozens of local high school students in the gallery.
$666 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,729.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $29k to $34k (+18%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
David Welle
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $13k → $12k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER’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
North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 62% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER: 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 North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER?
- North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $149,421 to it, the largest being REGION 2 ARTS COUNCIL ($118,733). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $149,421 in grants to North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER?
- REGION 2 ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $118,733 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like North Country Museum of Arts Inc dba NEMETH ART CENTER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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