Minnesota · Nonprofit
NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD
NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $589,020 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($213,812). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $476k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $589k
- Net assets
- $780k
What Northfield Arts Guild does
Mission
The mission of the Northfield Arts Guild is to inspire artists of all ages and skill levels with inclusive opportunities, connect audiences to new art and ideas, and grow our increasingly diverse audience to strengthen our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: the guild offers developmental, sequenced classes for all levels of students in theater, dance, music, and visual arts. Key programs include clay program, dance program, and classes in visual arts. In its 35th year, the youth people's theater workshop again offered two in person three-week workshops.
$128,593 spentof which $10,000 as grants38% of program spendingGallery and shop: the gallery exhibited high quality visual arts of over 100 adult artists plus hundreds more from northfield area schools. There were also several exhibitions in satellite gallery spaces. The shop sold works from over 100 regional artists. There were over 6,000 visitors to the gallery and shop.
$40,905 spent12% of program spendingTheatre productions: the 65th theater season included five plays. Over 200 volunteered in the cast or crew in addition to many more who helped out as ushers and box office attendants.
$69,276 spent20% of program spendingOther: other programs included the annual riverfront arts festival which included 50 artists as well as several musical performances from cannon valley regional orchestra and the return of our annual 411 concert series.
$101,135 spent30% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $339,909.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $768k to $943k (+23%).
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: 2020 22% · 2021 29% · 2022 25% · 2023 20% · 2024 17% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $93k → $122k.
8 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD’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
NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 64% · 2019 62% · 2020 66% · 2021 44% · 2022 38% · 2023 63% — 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
50% of NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
62% of NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD'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 $225k 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. $364k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD
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.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD: 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 NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD?
- NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $589,020 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($213,812). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $589,020 in grants to NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $213,812 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHFIELD ARTS GUILD 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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